Miles, a 24-year-old teacher and Naples-native, has had a mixed run on the show. After not getting more than a few seconds of air time during the first few weeks, she got a high complement from notoriously cranky judge Simon ...

Elaine Newton is the professor literature lovers never knew existed. If they did, there would be even more pages of people waitlisted to hear her. It’s been happening at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts for nearly 20 years.

The Naples Players is planning on a “ruff” season in 2010-2011. It has scheduled two dog-prominent stories: “Sylvia,” A.R. Gurney’s comedy of life with a conflicted couple from an adopted female mutt’s perspective; and the musical “Annie,” in which Sandy, ...

Singers who were bashed by the judges during semifinals seemingly surprised the panel with their respectable renditions of Stones songs. Among them: 17-year-old high school student Katie Stevens with "Wild Horses," 23-year-old waitress Didi Benami with "Play With Fire," and ...

Cirque Dreams Illumination thrills, chills and even spills - water that is. The show takes off from a fictional train station with a singing reporter and ends with acrobats spinning twelve feet up in the air. In between, there's leaping, ...

Laryngitis kept Paige Miles from rehearsing in the days leading up to her Tuesday performance.

The 24-year-old school teacher has made it farther than any “Idol” expert would have you believe. The past two weeks, writers from the New York Times, MTV, Entertainment Weekly and more have predicted her demise.

"A Streetcar Named Desire" rumbles into Cultural Park Theatre in Cape Coral on a cloud of magnolias and liquor and cheap perfume. It rumbles back out, depending not on the kindness of strangers but a trio of superb performances that ...

If you've only ever read a book, you'll laugh - even if that one book was Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight." If you've read more - Kafka, Twain, Whitman, Dickens - you'll roll in the aisles, gasp for breath and scream with ...

Florida Rep's "Relatively Speaking" looks like it should power through two hours of mistaken identities, double entendres and farcical frippery with ease. It doesn't - though the veteran cast does their best to turn the polite titters into laughs and ...

Golf clubs in hands or not, the kids of "South Park" are ready to take on Tiger Woods.

The Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall on the campus of Edison College announced the shows coming as part of its 2010-11 Broadway series.

Teen power won out on "American Idol" as Katie Stevens claimed a place in the top 12 while a more experienced singer got the ax.

J. Mitchell Haley's lights out performance keeps audiences from turning the dial on the Laboratory Theater of Florida's production of "Talk Radio," even if the show itself has a bit of static.

After a performance that put her squarely in risk of being cut from the show, Naples-native Paige Miles managed to make her way into the “American Idol” final dozen.