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Upcoming Fort Myers Theatre Happening

  • May 2025
  • BY JANE BREISCH, EDITOR

Fort Myers regional theaters are continuing to stage their robust 2025 offerings! Contact these venues now for the best seats and pricing.

Florida Repertory Theatre, 2268 Bay Street, Fort Myers. The FL Rep is celebrating their 27th season as “one of America’s top repertory theatres” according to the Wall Street Journal. Check their website at https://www.floridarep.org for tickets for the following shows:

• Venus in Fur By David Ives

Continuing through May 18, 2025 ArtStage Studio Theatre

Sexy, provocative, and witty, Venus in Fur turns up the heat on sexual power play and is sure to charm and mesmerize.

• 2025 Play Lab – Festival of New Works

May 1 – 4 Historic Arcade Theatre

PlayLab is an intensive weekend of rehearsals, readings, talkbacks, and development that brings professional playwrights, directors, and actors together to work on up to six new plays in a laboratory setting. Check it out.

• Til Death Due Us Part… Late Night Catechism 3 Author: Maripat Donovan

June 11 – July 3, 2025 ArtStage Studio Theatre

Players Circle Theater, has moved from North Fort Myers to a new location: the former New Phoenix Theatre at 13211 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers (only about 20 minutes from HP!).

Started by FL Repertory Theatre founders Bob Cacioppo and Carrie Lund, Players Circle is in its sixth season. Check their website at https://www.playerscircle.org. for tickets for the following shows:

• The Business of Murder   By Richard Harris

Continuing through May 11, 2025

Running eight years in London, this psychological thriller centers on a trio of characters. In the tradition of Agatha Christie, nothing is as it seems and as the plot twists and turns, it becomes clear, they are all in the same business…murder.

• Vanities A New Musical By Jack Heifner

May 23 – June 8, 2025; previews: May 20-22, 2025

This musical comedy is the story of three Texas cheerleaders’ journey to adulthood. Friends caught up in times that are a-changing.

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged By Adam Long, Daniel Singer & Jess Winnfield

July 4 – 13, 2025; previews July 1-3.

See 37 Shakespeare plays in just 97 minutes, in this irreverent and irresistible comedy.

• Grease By Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

August 1 – 10, 2025

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Conceived by Rebecca Feldman

August 22 – September 7, 2025; previews August 19-21.

The Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, 1380 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers. 239-278-4422. Check their website at https://broadwaypalm.com/. for tickets for the following shows:

• Waitress

Continuing through May 24, 2025

• Legally Blonde, the Musical

May 30 to June 28, 2025

• Annie

July 3 to August 9, 2025