Arts

Let's Put On A Show Productions earned their company name Saturday. "Pageant Play," the fledgling theater venture's first show, offers a palpable sense of surprise and delight to everyone in the room - actors, volunteers and audience alike. The joyful ...

Gulfshore Playhouse has produced good shows, great shows and shows I wasn't quite a fan of. Now, with "The Importance of Being Earnest," Kristen Coury finds herself in a different place entirely. "Earnest" is amazing. This will be the best ...

Florida Gulf Coast University's theatre program continued their season with a play for the Valentine crowd, Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love." My second foray into collegiate theatre turns up fascinating themes and a strong performance or two, if not a ...

The Marco Island Center for the Arts opened their latest show Tuesday evening with a reception at the center’s gallery on Winterberry Drive. Entitled “Forme de la Femme,” the exhibit features new interpretations on an old th

The Marco Players went to the park - the dog park - for Valentine's Day. Winsome Joe DiPietro play "The Last Romance" follows lovelorn Ralph Bellini as he muddles through a complicated tangle of hounds and heartbreak. Expect big laughs.

At 2:59 p.m. and some seconds on February 10, the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, a nun in a habit with a purpose moved briskly down the aisle at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall. At the stroke of 3 ...

Claire Brownell dances across the stage. "What if I hold my hand out during this bit?" she asks. "Like I'm waiting for him to take it?" Brownell, William Connell and Kristen Coury are delighting in finding the funniest angles in ...

How do you define a romantic play? A romantic musical? Is it the subject matter? The music? How the show makes you feel? Turns out, nobody knows. But they've all got an opinion! "Oh, what a tough question," Rachel Applegate, ...

Composer and lyricist Andrew Lippa looked for a fun way to represent the characters of "The Addams Family" when he sat down to write songs for Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley and the gang. "You're trying to balance song, ...

There's a Puddle in the middle of the stage at the Golden Gate Community Center. This particular Puddle is blue, with silver sequins. She's a little bedraggled and has toppled over, oblivious to the hive of activity around her. A ...

"On Golden Pond," Ernest Thompson's syrupy, splendid look at old age, parenting and love, evokes a beautiful picture. Jane Fonda diving off the dock. Katharine Hepburn nestled with Henry Fonda watching loons on the lake. Stage productions fight those Oscar-winning ...

Tom Dudzick, the so-called "Catholic Neil Simon," writes small, intimate plays about the working class families that inhabit his hometown streets of Buffalo, New York. His plays are very Catholic, filled with love and sprinkled with families that put the ...

Kimberly Richards is a nun on the run. Literally. The first time I called, she was on an airport shuttle, headed out for a swing that would see her perform four of the six versions of "Late Nite Catechism" within ...

Before Thursday's performance of "Love Letters," Pat Berry mentioned "special moments" she witnessed on opening night. Couples held hands or strolled to the door talking about their own love letters. As I watched the show, I wondered if Gurney's masterpiece ...

What is love? Is it correcting an errant semicolon? Is it teaching the foxtrot? Or is it days, weeks and years of slavish devotion over a typewriter while life passes by, beaus drift away and rains fall? The Naples Players ...