Theater

Fort Myers Theatre is creating ‘one singular sensation’ with their production of the multi-Emmy-winning Broadway show A Chorus Line, and introducing a new generation of performers and audiences to the ground-breaking show. The company is forging ahead, even after the show lost its star, actress Erin Coleman, in a fatal car accident that occurred just a week before opening night.

Belle Theatre in Cape Coral presents a production of the original Broadway musical "Newsies." Performances run June 11-19.

Ghostbird Theatre Company is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a play 400 million years in the making. Called, "One Island," the performance is inside the Wasmer Art Gallery at FGCU.

We explore the Ghostbird Theatre Company’s performance/installation hybrid, “One Island,” ahead of its opening at the Wasmer Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University.

The Laboratory Theater of Florida celebrates the coming of summer each year by spoofing a famous Hollywood movie. This year, it’s Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror film "The Birds."

The Florida Repertory Theatre in Fort Myers closes its 24th season with a production of the authentically Southern romantic comedy “Maytag Virgin,” by playwright Audrey Cefaly. We take a closer look with the play’s stars and only actors Tyler Layton and Duke Lafoon.

This year, the theme of National Women’s History Month is women providing healing, promoting health. Sometimes this occurs within the context of helping survivors end abusive relationships and forge a new life. And that’s the subject of a play opening at The Naples Players on March 30th which WGCU Reporter Tom Hall calls the most consequential show to be produced anywhere in Southwest Florida this theater season.

Players Circle Theater is currently performing a production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” based on the best-selling novel of the same. We delve into the show with the director and Players Circle Theater co-founder Bob Cacioppo and the lead actor of this production Harvey Evans. We also explore neurodiversity and highlight resources available for families here in Southwest Florida with co-founder and Vice President of the nonprofit Family Initiative, Anjali Van Drie.

The dictionary defines unsettling as distressing, disturbing and upsetting. The Laboratory Theater of Florida invokes these very emotions with the Southwest Florida premiere of Killer Joe, on stage now through February 5th.

The Laboratory Theater of Florida in Fort Myers has a robust slate of live theatre offerings throughout its 13th season. We’ll get a preview of what’s in store for Southwest Florida theatre patrons with the Laboratory Theater of Florida’s Founding Artistic Director Annette Trossbach.