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Tommy’s opens at the Shell Factory By CHUCK BALLARO - | Jan 27, 2021 The long-awaited Tommy's Tiki Bar has opened at The Shell Factory & Nature Park. It took a year and a half from start to finish, but the Shell Factory was finally able to cut the ribbon on one of its biggest projects ever this month, when it opened Tommy’s Tiki Bar. Many friends and supporters were on hand to witness the opening of the covered outdoor bar on Jan. 13, which finally put a cap on the three big projects that were done on the restaurant portion of the complex.

Robert Cacioppo, artistic director at the Players Circle, said there will be something for everybody this season. “When I do theater, I like to have a wide variety. I think the nightclub season we’ve chosen reflects that,” Cacioppo said. “We have a comedian who’s improvisational, another is a storyteller, we have jazz and country. We have a really nice mix.” Shows will run from Feb. 4 through April 1 at the venue that has reinvented itself from a 200-seat professional theater to a 50-seat nightclub with spaced seating, temperature checks, thorough sanitizing, and masks worn by all...

Trump Country, Hamilton and COVID-19: The top 10 entertainment stories of 2020 Any other time, “Hamilton” would've been our top entertainment story of the year. The blockbuster musical finally — finally! — rolled into Southwest Florida after years of anticipation. And yes, it was awesome. But this wasn’t any other year, was it? This was the year of COVID-19 — and that changed everything. Just two months after “Hamilton” visited Artis—Naples and Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, both venues went dark. And they didn’t open their doors again until the fall — at reduc...

‘Curious Incident’ performed at North High By CHUCK BALLARO - | Dec 16, 2020 Haley Sprung, who plays Christopher’s mother in the play “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” performs Thursday on stage in the North Fort Myers High School parking lot. Last spring, the Players Circle Theater planned to do the play “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” It performed exactly one show before the theater had to close because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This past week, the North Fort Myers High School Theater Department held its version of the play but in a new...