The Edison Ford Winter Estates and Museum are jewels of southwest Florida. The museum showcases memorabilia highlighting the successes of two of America’s industrialists, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.
Maytag Virgin gradually, elaborately, and poignantly unfolds in an assiduously crafted literary effusion. It’s a dreamscape in which we sense loss tempered by hope.
The Florida Rep stage was packed with rock n’ roll talent for their fabulous portrayal of The Buddy Holly Story and his songs that changed music forever!
Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House – Part 2, is an exploration of the complexity of human emotions, discrete frailty, dreams, ambitions, freedom, and needs emanating from the configuration of the nuclear family, in this instance, with three children and no dog. The four-member cast carried the 90-minute production beautifully, masterfully maintaining their respective roles, engaging the heart and imagination, and taking us with them as they traveled effortlessly in an inventive dreamscape through time.
Los Cabos Cantina delivered a Classic Taco with carnitas and beef with street corn, yellow rice, coleslaw, and seasonal vegetables.
Into the Breeches opens the story at the Providence Oberon Theater which is quiet and gloomy and where Maggie Dalton believes she can assemble women to perform Shakespeare’s male leads.
This fantastic sold-out event warmed the heart and charmed the soul. The characters were delightfully conceived and presented by Mujahid Abdul-Rashid (Hoke Coleburn), Sara Morsey (Daisy Werthan), and Jason Parrish (Boolie Werthan). If you’ve seen the 1989 film, it’s clear that the Florida Rep presentation better captures the emotional and memorable qualities of author Alfred Uhry’s work.
We are in an upscale stereotypical baby-boomer Florida retirement condo with plush furniture, a well-stocked open kitchen with counter seating, wall décor with beach themes, and light gray walls with white trim and crown molding.
An excited full house eagerly anticipated this Opening Night of West Side Story, its pathos intensified by today’s passing of our beloved bard Stephen Sondheim. As such, we were honored to participate in what became a celebration of West Side Story’s depiction of a doomed couple we love, akin to Romeo and Juliet, Aida and Radames, and Tristan and Isolde.
The mood is set from the moment you enter the theater and the play begins. An amazing full moon casting shadows over the gravesite scene is as stirring as the seashells illuminated haphazardly at the edge of the stage flickering throughout the acts.