Arts

The Island Players dug out the tie-dye tees, peace signs and lava lamps this weekend. The group serves up five one-act plays about life, love, family and the horizontal bop. While the writing leaves much to be desired, the acting ...

Artists are traditionally a hard-living bunch, and this Thursday, over a score of them are planning to paint the town. Actually, it’s about doing good, not debauchery, as “Wet Paint Live” returns to the island for the fifth year. A ...

It was here and then gone, in the blink of an eye. Unlike most art exhibits, the “Art in Bloom” show was mounted for only three days. A reception was held Friday evening at the Marco Island Center for the ...

Former "In Living Color" cast member, movie star and stand-up comic Tommy Davidson rocked the house at Marco Island's Off the Hook comedy club Friday night.

I don't know that I'll every be fully seduced by the "Jersey Boys," which plays through Feb. 19 at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers. I do know that it's the slickest, glossiest and best-packaged piece ...

"Damn Yankees" slid into the Naples Philharmonic for a one-night stand Thursday. Sultry Lola got a sold-out house, even if she didn't get her man. The audience wasn't so lucky. While the show had its moments, it was plagued by ...

If you can’t find your mother, children or grandparents in “I’m Herbert ... and other Strangers,” you’re not looking hard enough. The Island Players collects five vignettes of ‘60s and ‘70s relationships and lets them take off to wherever they ...

Gulfshore Playhouse dove into the discussion about race in America Friday night. David Mamet's searing cannonball of a play "Race," with unsayable words, unthinkable deeds and shocking twists burns across the stage. You'll watch, stare and gasp. You'll also laugh. ...

A re-designed and re-orchestrated vision of "Les Misérables" swung into the Philharmonic Tuesday. There's much to love - a towering Valjean, a thundering Javer, phantasmic effects and glorious voices. Yet, for all the soaring crescendo of sound, the production feels ...

The January edition of “Art in the Glades” was held Saturday at McLeod Park. The park is in the heart of Everglades City, and literally surrounded by history. On one side stands City Hall, open to visitors with displays of ...

Naples artist Paul Arsenault gives a lecture on the Florida Highwaymen at the Marco Island Historical Society on Thursday evening. The Highwaymen are a group of African American artists who painted and sold Florida landscapes in the Jim Crow era. ...

Artists Deborah Mitchell and Deedra Ludwig are in the class of visionaries who are compelled to deeply explore and express the otherwise unheard, unseen, unfelt beauty, mystery and fragility of remote places like the Big Cypress Swamp in South Florida. ...

All music becomes oldies, if people still remember it at all. The Beatles, the Bangles, and Busta Rhymes, all will become the province of those whose memories are provided with a soundtrack by the tunes they loved. For the crowd ...

Dozens of artist showed their stuff to hundreds of art lovers Sunday at the Left Bank Art Fest. The monthly gathering, held through the season at the Esplanade on Collier Boulevard, benefited from a “Goldilocks” day – not too hot, ...

Florida Repertory Theatre dives into death - or at least into life after death - with its latest offering, a one-woman adaptation of Joan Didion memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking." Sara Morsey brings the author to vivid, tenacious life ...