Tom Hall

Lynn Nottage’s contemporary play, “Clyde’s,” is making its Southwest Florida premiere at the Laboratory Theater of Florida. The dark comedy asks one of the most important questions of our time: Can the perfect sandwich can be made?

Barbara Mann GM Scott Saxson started the High School Musical Theatre Awards in 2008 to celebrate local high school actors and orchestras, their musical productions, and the hard work it takes to bring those shows to the stage.Students spend months working on their productions, rehearsing songs and dance steps, designing and painting the sets, sewing the costumes and doing everything else it takes to put on a show. Most schools start working on their productions in the fall and rehearse all year — including after school and on weekends — until they present their shows in March or April. The High School Musical Theatre Awards celebrate their hard work and achievements.

The Broadway revival of Doubt: A Parable closed on April 21. The Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning drama opens May 3 at Golden Gate Community Center in Naples.Studio Players Director Anna Segreto says that local audiences are in for a theatrical treat.

Southwest Florida’s first large-scale mosaic is coming soon to the Fort Myers River District. It will be installed at The Ivy, a 274-unit apartment complex. While the tiles that comprise the five-foot-tall by 25-foot-long mosaic are being fabricated by a company based in Wales, Zimmer engaged popular local artist David Acevedo to design the mural on which it is based.

The first augmented reality mural in Southwest Florida was unveiled at Art Walk on January 5th. The Fort Myers Mural Society hopes the mural will appeal to a younger demographic and Southwest Florida's expanding pool of cultural and heritage tourists.

On May 4th, eight Lee County High Schools participated in the High School Musical Theatre Awards. Established by Barbara B. Mann General Manager Scott Saxon, it's the equivalent of the Tony Awards for local high school theater shows and the students who perform in them.

Director/Choreographer Robin Dawn Ryan and her youthful cast seek bring Beauty and the Beast to the Fort Myers Theatre stage beginning May 11th.

Players Circle Theatre at the Shell Factory in North Fort Myers closes its 2022-2023 season on May 7th with The Foreigner. In July, they’ll move to the space currently occupied by New Phoenix Theatre on McGregor Boulevard. Players Circle co-founder and Producing Artistic Director Robert Cacioppo is excited to move operations to the heart of the McGregor Corridor

Myth and the music of Mendelsohn will transform the Tribbe Arts Center at Shell Point into an enchanted forest filled with magic and intrigue when Gulfshore Ballet performs A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The Marco Island Center for the Arts has worked hard to become an integral part of the vibrant and engaging Marco Island community.