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Fort Myers Theatres’ Upcoming Productions

  • February 2026
  • BY JANE BREISCH, EDITOR

Here are four Fort Myers regional theatre 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 28th 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:

• Tuesdays with Morrie By Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom

Continues through March 1, 2026

ArtStage Studio Theatre

The best-selling book comes to life in this moving autobiographical story following Mitch Albom’s visits to his old professor, Morrie Schwartz, as he battles Lou Gehrig’s Disease. What begins as a simple visit by the career-driven journalist turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class on the meaning of life.

• The Play That Goes Wrong By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields

February 13 – March 6, 2026; previews February 10 – 12

Historic Arcade Theatre

This hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes follows a fictitious theatre company’s opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things quickly go from bad to utterly disastrous. Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hysterical consequences!

• Little Shop of Horrors By Howard Ashman and Alan Menken

March 20 – April 12, 2026; previews March 17 –19

Historic Arcade Theatre

The musical is based on the 1960s B-movie by Roger Corman and features book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken. The story is packed with laughs, thrills, chills, and Motown and doo-wop-inspired hit songs and follows down-on-his-luck Seymour who pines for his beautiful co-worker at Mushnik’s Skid Row Florist.

• Girls Night: The Musical

March 11 – 29, 2026

ArtStage Studio Theatre

Girls Night has been thrilling audiences and earning raves from critics throughout North America since it began touring after its sensational Off-Broadway debut. This touching and hilarious “tell-it-like-it-is” musical takes audiences on a journey into the lives of a group of female friends.

• Denise Fennell’s The Bride: Or, Does This Dress Make Me Look Married? By Rick Pasqualone

April 10 – May 10, 2026; previews April 7 – 9

ArtStage Studio Theatre

Tour-de-force actress Denise Fennell, the scrappy Sister from last summer’s Late Nite Catechism, tackles the meaning of love, life, and the ritual of marriage. Drawing inspiration from her own life – and the advice of the audience – “The Bride” tackles the decision of a lifetime: Will she, or won’t she?

Players Circle Theater, 13211 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers (only 20 minutes from HP!).

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

• Over the Tavern By Tom Dudzick

February 13 – March 8; previews February 10 – 12

A beguiling family comedy set in Buffalo in the Eisenhower 1950s. The Pazinski family has a lot going on in their cramped apartment over Dad’s bar. But all hell breaks loose, when 12-year-old, wise-cracking Rudy questions being Catholic.

• 4,000 Miles By Amy Herzog

March 20 – April 5; previews March 17 – 19

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist! After a cross-country bike trip, young Leo makes an unplanned visit to his feisty 91-year-old grand-mother Vera in her Greenwich Village apartment. Over the course of a single month these unlikely roommates, infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other in this charming dramedy.

• I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti By Giulia Melucci

April 17 – May 3; previews April 14 – 16

This tasty comedy invites you into Giulia’s kitchen as she recounts a string of botched romances and failed love affairs while preparing a home cooked meal.

• Same Time, Next Year By Bernard Slade

May 22 – June 7; previews May 19 – 21

One of the most popular romantic comedies of the last century, Same Time, Next Year ran four years on Broadway, winning multiple Tony Awards. The plot follows a love affair between two people, Doris and George, married to others, who rendezvous once a year. Twenty-five years of manners and morals are hilariously and touchingly played out by the lovers.

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:

• Fiddler on the Roof, the Musical

Continues through February 14, 2026

• Cats

February 20 to April 4, 2026

• All Shook Up – Featuring the Songs of Elvis Presley

April 10 to May 16, 2026

• The Sounds of 1967 – A Summer that Changed Everything

May 22 to June 20, 2026

• The Wizard Z

June 26 to August 8, 2025

Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, 13350 FSW Parkway, Fort Myers. For further info on their 2025-26 Broadway Series go to: https://www.bbmannpah.com.

• & Juliet February 3 to 8, 2026

• Back to the Future, the Musical February 17 to 22, 2026

• Mamma Mia! March 10 to 15, 2026

• Kimberly Akimbo April 1 to 5, 2026

• Moulin Rouge, the Musical – April 7 to 12, 2026