The next production up for The Laboratory Theater of Florida is the absurdist comedy, “BOB: A Life in Five Acts” by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Opening Friday June 28, this play starts off with a frightened mother birthing her son in the restroom of a White Castle. She abandons him only for him to be secretly adopted by the waitress of the restaurant, despite company policy. She names him and raises him while traveling across the country teaching him life’s lessons. This story of “everyman…

The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools is pleased to introduce our new Director of Marketing and Development, Michelle Avola-Reese. She has been the Executive Director of a local non-profit advocacy group, making a tremendous impact in Collier County for the past seven years. She also spent seven years with Xerox Corporation as the National Sales Training Manager. She has three sons currently enrolled in Lee County Public Schools. Her passion to further The Foundation’s efforts to en…

The next Connect Networking event at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center will be on Thursday, June 20, from 5:30- 7:30 p.m. This month’s guest speaker is author, national radio and television host, master life and business coach and international speaker David Essel. Melissa DeHaven hosts the monthly event. Connect Networking is open to everyone and is an encouraging and positive group where people can get to know each other, expand business and personal relationships, and connect in their commu…

Hungry families and children out of school for the summer will benefit from an evening of music and fellowship at the 16th Annual A Midsummer Night’s Sing, presented by First Presbyterian Church of Fort Myers and sponsored by the Galloway Family of Dealerships.

The event, planned for Tuesday, July 23, at First Presbyterian Church at 2438 Second St. in downtown Fort Myers, will be a 90-minute performance of hymns, instrumentalists, and special guests beginning at 7 p.m., with doors opening a…

Every summer, the Alliance for the Arts GreenMarket invites folks to participate in free farming and gardening workshops conducted by local growers, master gardeners, homesteaders and educators. Residents’ support for these classes has been strong in the past, with many attending, taking notes and asking questions. The result has been an increase in local homes and communities growing food organically in our area. This year, in addition to a core of sound gardening practices, the GreenMarket i…

A man has been murdered. The mystery is, who he is, who murdered him and what were the circumstances?

To solve it, we look at the outsides and insides of a tiny, Middle Western town. We look at a middle-aged woman who falls in love with the young man who comes to work in her cafe. We look at a woman mistreating her senile mother, who is obsessed with visions of Eldritch being evil. We look at a tender relationship between a young man and a dreamy, crippled girl. Pulitzer Prize winning pl…

The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center presents the final “Rock the River” concert of the season, the zStonez, on Saturday, May 11, at 6:00 p.m. The zStonez are a premier Rolling Stones tribute band and one of America’s hottest party bands. Band members include Richard Stewart, Donovan Christenson, Steve Lavalley, Dave Radford, Chuck Noonan and Karky Karkalits.

Richard Stewart was born In Manhattan, NYC and “has the moves of Mick Jagger.” He started doing Elvis impersonations at the you…

Theatre Conspiracy is proud to announce the opening of LOVE LOSS AND WHAT I WORE, a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman, on May 9, 2013 at the Foulds Theatre, Alliance of the Arts in Fort Myers.

Each performance of the show is a reading and will feature a new cast and benefit a different Southwest Florida charity including DRESS FOR SUCCESS, ADONIS AUTISM ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION, JUNIOR FLORIDA EVERBLADES and WGCU PUBLIC MEDIA….

Grab your grand hats and head to the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center for “An Evening at the Kentucky Derby” on Saturday, May 4, from 5:30-9 p.m. The “Run for the Roses” viewing party and fundraiser will be the second “Dinner with Berne” this season and will benefit the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center’s multi-million dollar building restoration project, as well as the continued operation of the Center.*

Guests will view the Run for the Roses pre-show followed by the “most exc…

On Saturday, April 13 art enthusiasts will get a rare glimpse ‘behind the curtains’ during the Alliance for the Arts’ Second Annual Artists’ Studio Tour. The daylong, self-guided tour features artists in their Cape Coral studios. The tour includes fiber artist Roseline Young and abstract minimalist painter Alicia Schmidt.

Born in New Orleans, Young is a Louisiana Folklife Program “Master Artist.” After living aboard her sailboat for years she put down her anchor in Cape…