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Naples Players heads into its diamond anniversary season with a sparkling array of theater, from a"mod" musical to high intrigue and some absurdist comedy.

Gulfshore Playhouse season brings on a double bill by the same award-winning author: "Art" and "God of Carnage."

TheatreZone ratchets up its musical quotient to high humor with "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" in its eighth season.

The Marco Players offer lots of laughs -- and some thirlls as well, with "Deathtrap -- in their upcoming season.

Opera Naples' "Eugene Onegin" was the perfect Russian evening for ArtsNaples World Festival -- or even with out it.

Three Russian pianists came together to give audiences some rarely heard treats Tuesday.

Young ballet dancers will get a chance to learn from the pros in Naples Ballet's "Sleeping Beauty" this weekend.

The concert at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts Friday night turned into an exercise class for the audience. Over and over it was jump up, clap hands, shout, sit down, jump up, shout, clap hands, whistle. But exercise is ...

Mei-Ann Chen has been on a long journey to become a conductor, but has always kept her destination in sight.

Choristers for Opera Naples are tacklling a tough language, Russian, to bring a Tchaikovsky favorite opera to the Phi and ArtsNaples World Festival audiences.

There is a bountiful spread of arts and culture, in price ranges that start at free. If the Russian Imperial Dinner at the Ritz-Carlton, Naples, (7 p.m. May 13, $300 per person) isn't for you, your children can still learn ...

If it has a melody, Straight No Chaser can harmonize it. The 10-man a cappella group, which gained Web fame with it's "Twelve Days of Christmas," is coming to Southwest Florida.

Tom Petty, troubadour of the turning points in American life, kept a capacity-crowd at Germain Arena on its feet Tuesday with a heaping setlist of favorite anthems.

Collier County has scores of arts organizations, but will there be room for them all in the future? From its small-town approach to culture in the 1970s — one annual painting show, one musical, a visit from an outside orchestra ...

A ballroom dance program that teaches kids confidence will also give them a workout in an contest Saturday at Miromar Design Center.

Twyla Tharp's dance, Frank Sinatra's music: It's a powerful combination.

"Coppelia" from the Miami City Ballet dazzled audiences at the Philharmonic Center Tuesday, April 3, with virtuosic dance, comic timing an a blitz of good music.

Two of current culture's most cheered and feared characters — Billy Elliot and Darth Vader — come to the Philharmonic Center for the Arts complex next season.

Spring transforms sunny Florida as well as everywhere else in America. No one knows that better than the staff of the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW), who watch 47,000 of its 60,000 acres burst into flower this month and next. ...

The Miami City Ballet danced an emotional and skillful "Giselle," but did this crowd appreciate it?

Elton John did not play a concert at Germain Arena Tuesday. He immersed the sold-out house in a three-hour, piano-propelled, light-splashed hit intensive.

Patricia Racette, a opera soprano will appear this weekend in Naples.

The Naples Philharmonic Orchestras Classical Series took on two strong works: the Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 and the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2.

Bach never heard his most famous Mass in B minor performed. You can, however.

The Bach Ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary in the biggest way it can imagine: with Bach's sweeping masterpiece, the Mass in B minor.

Lewellyn Sanchez-Werner electrified the audience at Classic Chamber Concerts Monday, inspiring cheers and delivering two encores.

A Ken Ludwig farce, "The Fox on the Faiirway," opens this week at Gulfshore Playhouse, and a lot of its characters and ambience may be familiar to Neapolitans.

In the world of celeb­rity advance interviews, there are the stars who snuff out questions. “I’ve been straining my voice and the doctor wants me to rest it.” Give scripted answers. Or simply refuse to talk: “That’s not a sub­ject ...

We all knew Faust was going to Hell at the end of this opera. But the ride was heavenly.

Naples Philharmonic Orchestra is planning a season in the fast lane.

Opera Naples has all those, and it appears more than ready to stage the opera with two performances this weekend. Its carefully crafted version works with earth-toned textured panels that can open into the expanse of a village square and ...

Sour notes between the Philharmonic Center for the Arts and Opera Naples have ended with the announcement the two will collaborate on a production of "Tosca" in December.

When the Golsano Children’s Museum of Naples opens next weekend, adults who don’t have the requisite child to escort them in will be pea-green with envy of those who do.

The artist formerly known as — or perhaps he is again — Prince has a song titled "Let's Go Crazy." That's much more succinct than Beethoven's title for his dive off the cliff: String Quartet in F Major, Opus 59, ...

Board president Stacey Bulloch said Kessler is “still an employee of the center.” But beyond that she said the board “doesn’t see a need to discuss anything further, thank you,” and hung up.

"Race," by David Mamet, plumbs relationships on a number of levels, and Gulfshore Playhouse works to expose all of them.

Miami City Ballet has some new wings from Liam Scarlett's first American-commissioned dance, "Viscera."

Classic Chamber Concerts played a duo of trios with passion and confidence.

Opera Naples "Don Giovanni" is a treat to hear, but Friday it needed work dramatically and visually.

It may not be totally Russian, but the Russian Cultural Center of Naples is serious about its culture,organizing gatherings for private readings and music, and now stepping up to a concert series at Koreshan State Park.

In most of the 25 years the musical "Les Miserables" has been thrilling audiences, J. Mark McVey has been in it. And for most of that time he has been Jean Valjean, the conflicted hero of the Victor Hugo novel ...

Not only is Don Giovanni the role people love to hear, it's the role opera stars love to play.

Art news: Art talks, teas, and an all-star jam among events

U.Tobe is offering a variety of concerts and talks during the winter semester at FGCU, all either free or low-cost.

Try out an art class before you take it? Yes, at the Lee County Alliance for the Arts -- and much more art news of special concerts and auditions.

Art events coming up: Met soprano here, novelist gets digital boost, more

The Philharmonic Center has added two members; Naples Players is offering winter classes for theater hopefuls; last week for that groundbreaking exhibition at the Marco Island Center for the Arts.

'Hansel and Gretel," the upcoming Opera Naples production, comes to the stage with a lot of magic behind it.

Art news from around Southwest Floriday: grants, festivals, awards

The marching orders at the Phil were to go fourth: The Beethoven Piano Con­certo No. 4 and the Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E mi­nor. The Naples Philhar­monic Orchestra, under the direction of Edwin Outwater and with guest artist William ...