Theater

Laboratory Theater of Florida in Fort Myers is mounting the world premiere production of “Alien: The Musical Parody.” The show is a hilarious new take on the 1979 sci-fi horror classic film “Alien.” We hear from Lab Theater founder and Artistic Director Annette Trossbach, who conceived of and wrote the show, along with Earl Sparrow who composed the music.

The second annual Fringe Fort Myers returns May 30 – June 2. The four-day festival includes a wide array of performances from independent, experimental and alternative artists from all over the world. We get a preview from festival organizer and founder Bill Taylor. We also hear from featured performer Keith Alessi about the true experiences that inspired his one-man show “Tomatoes Tried To Kill Me But Banjoes Saved My Life.”

The relationship comedy Men Are Dogs is on stage at Fort Myers Theatre. Here's what Southwest Florida theater goers can expect from local playwright Joe Simonelli in the coming months.

The Southwest Florida-based improv comedy team “Oops, We’re a Troupe,” will present a fully improvised long-form musical courtroom drama titled, “Disorder in the Court,” on May 11 at the Alliance for the Arts. Troupe members Julian and Lucy Sundby talk about the troupe, the performance, and mastering the art of improv comedy.

Produced "in the round," it's hard to know where the stage ends and the audience begins in Players Circle Theatre's highly-immersive production of the soft rock musical Godspell.

Belle Theatre's Peyton McCarthy commands the stage in Grounded as an F16 fighter pilot who is reassigned to fly drones from a windowless trailer in the desert outside Nevada after she becomes pregnant. McCarthy rises to the challenges presented by this ambitious one-woman show.

Ghostbird Theatre Company is mounting a production of a new play titled “Artificial Genesis” about the end of the world brought about by artificial intelligence. The play itself was written by a generative AI model. We’ll take a closer look in a conversation with the show’s director Barry Cavin and his son Emory Cavin, who’s responsible for the AI interface design and programming that led to the creation of the play.

Experience A Grand Night for Singing at MACC by Southwest Florida Theatre. WGCU's Tom Hall shares insights into this Tony-nominated musical revue.

On stage at the Laboratory Theater of Florida is the regional premiere of Yippee Ki-Yay Merry Christmas! A Die Hard Musical Parody. The musical resurrects the decades-long controversy about whether Die Hard is or is not a Christmas movie.

So many people missed out on the Clown Bar in 2022 that Artistic Director Bill Taylor has decided to revive the show this November (9-26). Once more, Taylor is converting the Foulds Theatre into a seedy night club where burlesque performer Blinky Fatale will try to seduce her ex, Happy Mahoney, if she can just get him to forget about avenging the murder of his little brother Timmy.