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The Naples Players are expanding and redeveloping their current space and will meet with the Naples City Council to discuss the changes. The project is entirely funded by what the theater company calls “generous donors.” Those donors together will make up the $15 million going towards the renovation of the Naples Players’ entire facility, the […]
If we think our last year quarantined at home with our families was an overload of drama, consider the world's playwrights. They were not only stuck at home with the kids. They were stuck at home with dramas they had written that no one could produce. So entries for the 2021 Stage It! 10 Minute Play competition this weekend at the Center for the Performing Arts in Bonita Springs, nearly buried Frank Blocker, the event's founder and organizer. (Ticket information is in the accompanying box.) "I've read 372 plays, and, boy, my eyes are tired," Blocker said. He sees them all, despite h...
If you're a baby boomer, you are the chosen one, with three concerts singing your tunes. Music Director Andrey Boreyko will not conduct any of the three classical concerts. Associate Conductor Radu Paponiu conducts at least one of those and two pops concerts as well. Paponiu also guides an educational LinkUp with Carnegie Hall and the philharmonic, exploring how music affects people and he'll field a class on the architecture of music for its Lifelong Learning Series. Beethoven's Ninth is back on the shelf. Originally scheduled for May 2020, the symphonic masterpiece was cancelled when...