Fran Thomas

What did our critic think of FLATLANDERS at Players Circle Theater?

Good actors spend a lot of time creating backstory and motivation for the character they are playing. Imagine how much work goes into doing this preparation to take on more than a half dozen roles. That is the task faced by Robbie Harrison in Murder for Two, a musical comedy/mystery now being offered by Southwest Florida Theatre Company in conjunction with Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre. This is the first collaboration between the two.

What did our critic think of CRAZY FOR YOU at Broadway Palm?

Given her photo in the program, playwright Jessica Provenz is far too young to know as much as she does about the life of a senior citizen in Florida. The packed audience at her play Boca was under no such limitation. Laughter, nay, guffaws of recognition greeted each scene.

What did our critic think of THE FANTASTICKS at Players Circle Theater?

Bloomsday by Steven Dietz at Florida Rep will touch the heart of any romantic. Jessica Mosher as Caithleen and Braydie Aldrich as Robbie are awkward and charming twenty-year-olds who meet in Dublin on June 16, Bloomsday. Lynn Hawley and Duke Lafoon are the same couple now called Cait and Robert, older and wiser, who reunite thirty-five years later.

If you can’t find something funny in the musical farce Lucky Stiff by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, you are as dead as poor Uncle Anthony. That gentleman has passed on in New Jersey, and he has willed six million dollars to his British nephew Harry Witherspoon, who has never even met him.

What did our critic think of ADMISSIONS at Players Circle Theater?

What did our critic think of BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY at Broadway Palm?

Ripped from the pages of today’s headlines, ADMISSIONS is a dramedy about liberal parents desperate to get their children into an Ivy League school. A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy, ADMISSIONS features razor-sharp dialogue and hard-hitting laughs.

What did our critic think of SIX TEEN EDITION at Melody Lane Theater?

What did our critic think of GREETINGS at Players Circle Theater?

What did our critic think of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE MUSICAL at Broadway Palm?

Players Circle Theater is getting in the Christmas spirit with Tom Dudzick’s heartwarming holiday comedy, GREETINGS, running November 25th – December 22nd, 2024. 

What did our critic think of BEDROOM FARCE at Players Circle Theater?

What did our critic think of BEDROOM FARCE at Players Circle Theater?

What did our critic think of CHICAGO THE MUSICAL at Broadway Palm?

A struggling quartet, The Plaids, is on their way to their big break when their car is hit by a bus and all four are killed instantly. By some cosmic mystery, however, they’re allowed to come back to earth to do that show just one time.

Players Circle Theater, a professional regional theater located in Fort Myers, FL is holding an OPEN CALL for actors with local housing. 

Players Circle’s season kicks off in October with a hilarious farce that will set the tone for the entire season, BEDROOM FARCE (October 22, 2024 – November 17, 2024) written by Alan Ayckbourn and directed by Robert Cacioppo. This wickedly funny play about marriage takes place in three bedrooms. On one endless night, Trevor & Susannah, whose marriage is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest, including Trevor’s parents.