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    Curie and the cure: Play explores friendship that saved her
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    THEATER
    Curie and the cure: Play explores friendship that saved her
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    11 April 2025
    Free-associate the name Marie Curie, and the words “radium” and “x-ray” will likely bubble up. How a...
    Handbell choirs stir emotions of joy, reflection
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    Handbell choirs stir emotions of joy, reflection
    By Jean L. Amodea 
    13 December 2024
    Hearing a handbell choir can be an almost out-of-body experience, as you are encircled by the sublim...

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    Niche film has friends in Naples Cinematheque, Opera Naples series
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    Niche film has friends in Naples Cinematheque, Opera Naples series
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    22 November 2024
    Cinema is at its best experienced with others — when the audience is gasping together or guffawing i...
    Theater with a bite: 3 high-energy plays open
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    THEATER
    Theater with a bite: 3 high-energy plays open
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    4 October 2024
    Rip another page off the calendar and you have autumn— and with it, the opening of the season for al...
    ‘It’s Only a Play’ peeks behind curtain for premiere angst
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    THEATER
    ‘It’s Only a Play’ peeks behind curtain for premiere angst
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    16 August 2024
    The Golden Egg is a play that can whip up an immense omelet of heightened anxiety levels, battered e...
    Opera Naples debuts Pavarotti competition, expands festival
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    THEATER
    Opera Naples debuts Pavarotti competition, expands festival
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    9 August 2024
    An inaugural Luciano Pavarotti Foundation vocal competition. A Festival Under the Stars with three o...
    Symphonic Winds brings orchestral sophistication to wind, brass blend
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    Symphonic Winds brings orchestral sophistication to wind, brass blend
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    8 December 2023
    Naples becomes the Windy City on Friday, Dec. 8, and it won’t require the first breeze to waft down ...
    4 helpings of holiday cheer
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    4 helpings of holiday cheer
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    1 December 2023
    Theater lovers are getting some early gifts this December: four helpings of holiday theater, full of...
    Fireworks show kicks of ‘starry’ concert season at Seminole Casino
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    Fireworks show kicks of ‘starry’ concert season at Seminole Casino
    By Jean L. Amodea 
    1 December 2023
    “Celebration in the Sky,” touted as the largest Southwest Florida land-based fireworks show and chor...
    Naples dramas: From classic drawing room to a doughnut emporium
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    Naples dramas: From classic drawing room to a doughnut emporium
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    3 November 2023
    We begin with the holidays in a 19th-century culture of lace collars and long dresses, before blue w...
    Three weekends, three markets, uncounted unique gifts
    Coming Up, Front Row Seat
    COMING UP
    Three weekends, three markets, uncounted unique gifts
    27 October 2023
    If you’re not in the mood for the holidays yet, wait a week. Or not quite that long. Friday is the f...
    Opera Naples al fresco: vocal stars, two full productions, family day
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    Opera Naples al fresco: vocal stars, two full productions, family day
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    17 March 2023
    What: Arts Center Theatre production of “Hollywood Arms,” by Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton When:...
    So much drama coming to Southwest Florida this month
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    PERFORMING ARTS
    So much drama coming to Southwest Florida this month
    “There are some brilliant moments in this. You lean toward sympathy for the character, but then you laugh. And you cry.”
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    17 March 2023
    There are a lot of important people in town this month. Carol Burnett, taken back to her childhood d...
    ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ to hear Buffett’s best tunes
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    THEATER
    ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ to hear Buffett’s best tunes
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com 
    10 February 2023
    The play: “Escape to Margaritaville” The production: TheatreZone The place: G&L Theater, The Communi...

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    By Tim Aten tim.aten@naplesnews.com 
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