Gerritt VanderMeer

Florida Repertory Theatre has announced the casts, directors, and stage managers for its 2024 PlayLab Festival. Creative teams and casts, including Florida Rep ensemble members and returning guest artists, alongside others many making their Florida Rep debuts, join five playwrights from New York and Los Angeles, and around the country.

Future stars of the stage collaborate with professional Equity actors in Heathers: The Musical, a joint production of Naples’ Theatre Zone and Florida Gulf Coast University’s Bowers School of Music. Learn more about the musical and how to get tickets here!

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Set your clocks to island time for Jimmy Buffett's Escape to Margaritaville, staged by Naples' TheatreZone February 9 through February 19, 2023. The upbeat and energetic 2018 Broadway musical features more than two dozen of the most loved hits from Jimmy Buffett.

Florida Repertory Theatre's 25th anniversary season continues with “Ripcord” a biting new comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire. The production runs in the Historic Arcade Theater from January 13 – 29, with discounted previews from January 10 - 12.

TheatreZone, a Naples-based professional Equity theatre specializing in Broadway musicals, celebrates a full, post-pandemic reopening— as well as its “Super 17” season —on December 10 with its original, annual production, Home for the Holidays.

TheatreZone, a Naples-based professional Equity theatre specializing in Broadway musicals, celebrates a full, post-pandemic reopening— as well as its 17th season —in December with its original production, Home for the Holidays.

Currently running as part of Florida Repertory Theatre's Outdoor Series is BROADWAY'S BEST: A CONCERT ON THE CALOOSAHATCHEE, directed by Florida Rep's Artistic Director Greg Longenhagen, starring Carolann Sanita, Gerritt VanderMeer, and the Bay Street Band.

The concert is a mash-up of classic and contemporary Broadway hits from 'Showboat' and 'Kiss Me Kate' to 'Rent,' 'Frozen,' 'Phantom,' and more!

TheatreZone, a nonprofit, 501(c)3 professional theatre in its 16th season of performances in-residence at the G&L Theatre on the Community School of Naples campus, will present “Those Were the Days”  March 4-14 as the fourth event of its Season 2020-21 Showstopper Series.

TheatreZone will present “Bravo Broadway!” January 7-17 as the second event of its Showstopper Series. The professional cast of Bravo Broadway! includes Larry Alexander (star of The Boy From Oz), Carolina Ordonez (star of Wonderful Town), Adolpho Blaire (star of Tonya & Nancy), Whitney Winfield (star of Tonya & Nancy), and more.

TheatreZone, a Naples-based professional Equity theatre specializing in Broadway musicals, begins its 15th season with Home for the Holidays which will be presented at Dec. 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 14 and 15 at 2:00 p.m.

Florida Repertory Theatre's 2019 PlayLab Festival of New Plays and Emerging Voices kicks off May 9 with readings of five new plays and one musical, a command performance of the world-premiere play for young audiences, 'Refugee,' and a Keynote Address from literary agent, Susan Gurman.

Gulfshore Playhouse's production of SCAPINO, based on Moliere's Scapin, brings an exciting, local twist to a play that is hundreds of years old. The show, adapted by Jeffrey Binder, has something for everyone--humor, romance, scheming, and much, much more.

Florida Repertory Theatre's 2017 PlayLab Festival of new plays and emerging voices plays in the Historic Arcade and ArtStage Studio Theatres April 27-30. The 2017 Festival features six new play readings, a keynote address and playwrights' panel, and two premieres of plays that were read as part of last year's PlayLab.

Florida Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce that the timeless American classic, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' will play in the Historic Arcade Theatre February 14 - March 8.

TheatreZone Artistic Director Mark Danni today announced the 13-member cast of the Equity theatre group's March 2016 production of INTO THE WOODS at the G&L Theatre in Naples. The production performs March 3 until March 13 and includes TheatreZone fan favorite actors and several newcomers.

Equity actress Lana Neuman makes her professional debut as the innocent and morally upstanding Susan Hunsecker, the young sister of the sinister New York columnist J.J. Hunsecker, in TheatreZone's production of Sweet Smell of Success. Based upon the 1957 film noir, the Tony-award winning musical opens the professional theatre group's 11th anniversary season with 11 performances January 7 through January 17, 2016.

TheatreZone artistic director Mark Danni has cast two veteran TheatreZone male vocalists he believes can deliver on legendary Broadway composer Marvin Hamlisch's final score for Sweet Smell of Success, the not-for-profit Equity theatre group's Season 11 opening musical production. The 10-day run takes place January 7 through January 17, 2016.