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The Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs is offering a bit of Elvis this holiday season with the heart-warming comedy, All the King's Women by playwright Luigi Jannuzzi, on December 3-6, 2020 at the Center for Performing Arts in the Moe Auditorium and Film Center.

Comedy/variety show JUST FOR LAUGHS returns to The Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs on Friday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m. for a special Valentine's Day show in the Moe Auditorium and Film Center, featuring comedians, music, sketches and comedy improvisation.

The long-awaited performance of the International Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival will finally be presented on October 9-11 at Centers for Performing Arts Bonita Springs. Originally scheduled for one-week after the state's pandemic lock down in March, plays from around the world will be performed for a live audience-social-distancing required.

The Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs presents its Staged Reading Series on Friday, Sept.11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Moe Auditorium & Film Center at Center for Performing Arts campus, 10150 Bonita Beach Road.

The Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs will present Just For Laughs: A Comedy Variety Show on Friday, August 14 at 7:30pm. The show will showcase four comedians including Laugh In Comedy Club's own Jamie Morgan, Absar Saddiqui, Tim Millican and Charles Calabritto, along with musical guest Chuck Jobes on piano.

Comedy/variety show JUST FOR LAUGHS returns to The Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs on Friday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m. for a special Valentine's Day show in the Moe Auditorium and Film Center, featuring comedians, music, sketches and comedy improvisation.

Having presented more than 40 playwrights in 2019, Center for Performing Arts kicks off the new year with a celebration of Southwest Florida Playwrights in the January 10 edition of their Staged Reading Series. The event will feature short plays, a solo play excerpt, and the 40-minute one-act play Inn Trouble by Sarasota's Pamela Schueler, a door-slammer and comedy of errors with a noir feel.

January 14 will mark the deadline for entries into the fourth annual Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival at Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs. The Festival culminates with a full production of ten of the winning plays March 19-22, 2020.

We're heading into the final week of voting for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Ft. Myers/Naples Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

Time travel, invisibility, the first interracial gay snow globe couple, sexy role play and a helicopter Jewish mother-in-law will all be just some of the topics covered in the eclectic and hilarious short play collection Funny Shorts LIVE! at Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs' Moe Auditorium and Film Center, December 13.

Casting is complete for the November 8 edition of Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs' Staged Reading Series.

Comedy/variety show JUST FOR LAUGHS returns to The Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs October 11, 7:30pm at the Moe Auditorium and Film Center. The show includes comedians, songs, sketches and a musical improvisation. Comedian Carmen Vallone, of Comedy Night School and Last Comic Standing-fame, will be joined by Sheena Reagan, Charles Calabritto and Kyle Brandle. Brandle recently wowed the Orlando Fringe Festival with his comedy play One Night at Louie's.

Freud's mother, asteroids, dinosaurs, curses and a sprite with an identity crisis will all be on display in the eclectic short play collection Funny Shorts LIVE! at Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs' Moe Auditorium and Film Center, September 13 & 14.

The Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs will present the world premiere of Charles Jackson, Jr.'s THE FLOATING BLACK MAN in conjunction with their popular Staged Reading Series on August 9, 2019, at 7:30pm. Mr. Jackson will give a full performance of his new play as part of the evening that will highlight Naples, Florida, playwright Marc Simon's play DEPARTURES in the staged reading format.

Center for Performing Arts Bonita Springs presents Funny Shorts LIVE! on June 14 and 15, featuring six short plays in an evening of comedic storytelling. The six plays feature writers from around the world, along with one local playwright, Shawn Ryan with his short play NAP TIME which will star Marilyn Hilbert, Kip Jones and Sheila Hand.

Redefining Entertainment at Center for the Performing Arts Bonita Springs

William Wade, composer, lyricist, orchestrator, musical director, arranger and pianist, passed away following a short battle with colon cancer on February 26, 2018 at the age of 54. Wade is perhaps best known for writing the score for John Tartaglia's Imaginocean, which had an eighteen month run off-Broadway at New World Stages and an extensive international tour.

Ten plays from the second annual Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival will premiere at the Center for the Performing Arts of Bonita Springs Saturday and Sunday, April 28 and 29. The event in includes a Book Release Party to celebrate the publication of all the winners.

Today is Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup! This week, Stephen Cerf of Jersey Boys off-Broadway gets a new mustache. Check out more Saturday Intermission Pics below!

As the snowbirds migrate north, the season winds down at Center for the Performing Arts in Bonita Springs, but Frankly Funny Fridays final two shows of the year promise to go out with a bang.