CHRIS SILK

• Review: Lab Theater explores Bible Belt lives with poetic "Rimers" Published 05/17/2013 at 11:01 a.m.

  The Laboratory Theater of Florida closes their season with an evocative, at times thrilling production of Lanford Wilson play "The Rimers of Eldritch." Director Louise Wigglesworth delivers strong work in teasing out the play's poetry. I wish the creative work ...

• Cape Coral deaf, hearing community join forces for a signed production of 'Wizard of Oz' Updated 05/17/2013 at 10:19 a.m.

  "The Wizard of Oz " is already a very visual musical. So what happens when you include the poetic movement of sign language into it? A Cape Coral group is finding out firsthand.

• Preview: Green Day musical "American Idiot" rocks Fort Myers May 16 Published 05/03/2013 at 12:38 p.m. 2 Comments

  Alison Morooney never thought she was a rocker. She wasn't even a huge Green Day fan before she auditioned for musical "American Idiot." More than 175 shows later, her tune has changed. Green Day's anthem to suburban ennui, finding yourself ...

• Review: TheatreZone closes solid season with passionate "110 in the Shade" Published 05/03/2013 at 5:05 a.m.

  Kudos to Mark Danni. He makes it rain for the third time out of four this year, ushering "110 in the Shade" to a successful - if a tad stormy - landing. Daytime stars Jim and Kassie DaPaiva offer sterling ...

• Preview: "50 Shades" parody is "a little sexy, a little raunchy" Published 04/29/2013 at 12:20 a.m. 1 Comment

  Spencer Rose promises one thing to audiences flocking to see "50 Shades! The Musical" on tour through the United States. "You're going to laugh your face off," the actress crowed from a hotel room in Atlanta late on a Friday ...

• Review: Ghostbird, Brady push boundaries with Beckett masterpiece "Endgame" Published 04/25/2013 at 6:05 p.m.

  Here, at the end of all things, in a desolate wasteland where mankind does little but sit and wait to die, we watch Samuel Beckett. This is "Endgame," the writer's meditative theater of the absurd about religion, death, family, loyalty, ...

• Art news: Plays, plays, plays coming up Updated 04/25/2013 at 2:52 p.m.

  There are plenty of plays still opening and an artful weekend to be had.

• Review: Florida Rep goes back to school with "Educating Rita" Published 04/22/2013 at 12:31 a.m.

  Florida Repertory Theatre closed their 2012-13 season Friday with a respectable, if unremarkable, production of "Educating Rita." Willy Russell's two-hander imagines a British college professor tutoring a lower-class student because she wants to know "everything." Both learn a lot!

• Chris Silk: Three reasons Kathleen van Bergen is right about Artis-Naples Published 04/22/2013 at 12:01 a.m. 8 Comments

  Like the rest of the known universe, I was shocked when I found out that the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts was renaming itself as Artis-Naples. What. The. Expletive. Admit it. Some variation of that was on everyone's lips. ...

• Review: Island Theater Company finds out just why "Mama Won't Fly" Published 04/19/2013 at 3:44 p.m.

  Savannah Honeycutt, Norleen Sprunt and Hayley Quinn (it's the South) are in Birmingham, Ala. Hayley's gettin' hitched in California. There's just one eensy, weeny, teeny, tiny 'lil 'ol problem. Mama won't fly. So, let's drive to the West Coast! In ...

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