Portland comedian Alex Elkin started his stand up comedy career in 2016 after winning the prestigious 41st Annual International San Francisco Comedy Competition. In July 2018 he was honored in being chosen to go to Kuwait, Baghdad, Iraq and Syria to entertain the troops. Elkin was a finalist in the Hollywood Laugh Factory’s International Donald Trump Impersonator Contest and is 2018’s champion of the Hard Rock Casino’s Annual Comedy Cage Match. When he’s not home with his wife of 19 years and his three children, you can find Alex Elkin headlining comedy clubs across the country and cruise ships all over the world. Alex has been seen on the Netflix series Trinkets, Inside Edition, CNN, VUDU, XBOX, Amazon Prime, E!’s The Simple Life Season 5, TNT’s LEVERAGE, NBC’s GRIMM as well as heard regularly on XM Sirius’ Raw Dog comedy channel. Alex Elkin comedy specials and albums are released through Uproar Records including his latest work Screaming at Shapes which debuted at #6 on iTunes and can be downloaded through any online music store.

Please note:

• Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
• All tickets are non-refundable
• A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price. 

Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership

• When you purchase any level of a Marco Island Center for the Arts membership, you will receive $5 dollars off the ticket price of all 2022-2023 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.

Portland comedian Alex Elkin started his stand up comedy career in 2016 after winning the prestigious 41st Annual International San Francisco Comedy Competition. In July 2018 he was honored in being chosen to go to Kuwait, Baghdad, Iraq and Syria to entertain the troops. Elkin was a finalist in the Hollywood Laugh Factory’s International Donald Trump Impersonator Contest and is 2018’s champion of the Hard Rock Casino’s Annual Comedy Cage Match. When he’s not home with his wife of 19 years and his three children, you can find Alex Elkin headlining comedy clubs across the country and cruise ships all over the world. Alex has been seen on the Netflix series Trinkets, Inside Edition, CNN, VUDU, XBOX, Amazon Prime, E!’s The Simple Life Season 5, TNT’s LEVERAGE, NBC’s GRIMM as well as heard regularly on XM Sirius’ Raw Dog comedy channel. Alex Elkin comedy specials and albums are released through Uproar Records including his latest work Screaming at Shapes which debuted at #6 on iTunes and can be downloaded through any online music store.

Please note:

• Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
• All tickets are non-refundable
• A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price. 

Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership

• When you purchase any level of a Marco Island Center for the Arts membership, you will receive $5 dollars off the ticket price of all 2022-2023 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.

Plaza Suite portrays three couples who each occupy Suite 719 at the Plaza Hotel at different stages throughout the year. First up, is a suburban couple who have come to the hotel to celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary…or is it their 23rd? Or is it actually their anniversary at all? They are succeeded by a Hollywood hotshot who has returned to New York to seek out his (now married) high school girlfriend. After three doomed marriages, he is eager to remind himself of the sweet innocence of a suburban woman…with a little sexual diversion along the way. However, her obsession with Hollywood and overindulgence in the vodka stingers gives him more than he bargained for. Finally, the suite is occupied by a couple who are about to celebrate the wedding of their daughter…if they can get her out of the bathroom. Tension rises and tempers flare as all their attempts to get her to unlock the door fail. Neil Simon’s witty and piercing observation of love, marriage, and contentment offers a unique challenge for two talented actors to play three very different couples.

Wednesday Feb. 8, 2023 – House Opens: 7:00pm and Curtain at 7:30pm.

Please note:

• Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
• Subscription tickets are nonrefundable
• All tickets are non-refundable
• A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price. 

Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership

• When you purchase any level of a Marco Island Center for the Arts membership, you will receive $5 dollars off the ticket price of all 2022-2023 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.

For nearly 25 years Jim Florentine has been making audiences around the world laugh across nearly every type of media. Jim has recorded six stand-up comedy albums and shot four full-length specials. On television Jim hosted 7 seasons of VH1 Classic’s “That Metal Show” as well as lending his voice to the ground breaking “Crank Yankers”. On radio Jim has been a regular on The Howard Stern show, the Opie & Anthony show and currently hosts his own program on Sirius XM. In addition Jim is a best selling author, world-renowned voice over talent and has been featured in the film’s “Beer League” with Artie Lange and “Trainwreck” with Amy Schumer. 7pm – March 10, 2023

Please note:

• Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
• All tickets are non-refundable
• A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price. 

Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership

• When you purchase any level of a Marco Island Center for the Arts membership, you will receive $5 dollars off the ticket price of all 2022-2023 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.

For nearly 25 years Jim Florentine has been making audiences around the world laugh across nearly every type of media. Jim has recorded six stand-up comedy albums and shot four full-length specials. On television Jim hosted 7 seasons of VH1 Classic’s “That Metal Show” as well as lending his voice to the ground breaking “Crank Yankers”. On radio Jim has been a regular on The Howard Stern show, the Opie & Anthony show and currently hosts his own program on Sirius XM. In addition Jim is a best selling author, world-renowned voice over talent and has been featured in the film’s “Beer League” with Artie Lange and “Trainwreck” with Amy Schumer. 7pm – March 10, 2023

Please note:

• Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
• All tickets are non-refundable
• A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price. 

Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership

• When you purchase any level of a Marco Island Center for the Arts membership, you will receive $5 dollars off the ticket price of all 2022-2023 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.

Hollywood Arms is a full-length comedic drama by Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett. A young daughter of ineffectual parents finds escape and solace in her own dreams of stardom in this warmhearted, coming-of-age play by comic legend Carol Burnett and her daughter, Carrie Hamilton. Based on the great comedian’s memoir One More Time, this revealing stage version is an entertaining, moving, and sometimes zany look into Carol Burnett‘s not-so Hollywood-land childhood.

Hollywood Arms chronicles the life of a woman named Helen in pre- and post-World War II Hollywood. This funny and moving story centers on three generations of women living on welfare in a one-room apartment at the Hollywood Arms, at the foot of the Hollywood hills. The piece contains a cavalcade of characters, including a tough, funny, yet tender pill-popping Christian Scientist grandmother who cares for the heroine, Helen, after the divorce of her parents; a beautiful wide-eyed and distant mother who is struggling to be a writer, only to drown her ambitions in a bottle; a loving but absent and alcoholic father who wants to be the daddy he never was; and a young girl Helen whose only escape is up on the roof of their rundown apartment house where she creates her own magical world at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. Finally, it’s a story about shattered hopes and realized dreams. Audiences will laugh and cry as they watch the story of the childhood that birthed Carol Burnett‘s incredible talent.

Wednesday Mar. 15, 2023 – House Opens: 7:00pm and Curtain at 7:30pm.

Please note:

• Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
• Subscription tickets are nonrefundable
• All tickets are non-refundable
• A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price. 

Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership

• When you purchase any level of a Marco Island Center for the Arts membership, you will receive $5 dollars off the ticket price of all 2022-2023 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.

Hollywood Arms is a full-length comedic drama by Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett. A young daughter of ineffectual parents finds escape and solace in her own dreams of stardom in this warmhearted, coming-of-age play by comic legend Carol Burnett and her daughter, Carrie Hamilton. Based on the great comedian’s memoir One More Time, this revealing stage version is an entertaining, moving, and sometimes zany look into Carol Burnett‘s not-so Hollywood-land childhood.

Hollywood Arms chronicles the life of a woman named Helen in pre- and post-World War II Hollywood. This funny and moving story centers on three generations of women living on welfare in a one-room apartment at the Hollywood Arms, at the foot of the Hollywood hills. The piece contains a cavalcade of characters, including a tough, funny, yet tender pill-popping Christian Scientist grandmother who cares for the heroine, Helen, after the divorce of her parents; a beautiful wide-eyed and distant mother who is struggling to be a writer, only to drown her ambitions in a bottle; a loving but absent and alcoholic father who wants to be the daddy he never was; and a young girl Helen whose only escape is up on the roof of their rundown apartment house where she creates her own magical world at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. Finally, it’s a story about shattered hopes and realized dreams. Audiences will laugh and cry as they watch the story of the childhood that birthed Carol Burnett‘s incredible talent.

Saturday Apr. 1, 2023 – House Opens: 7:00pm and Curtain at 7:30pm.

Please note:

• Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
• Subscription tickets are nonrefundable
• All tickets are non-refundable
• A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price. 

Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership

• When you purchase any level of a Marco Island Center for the Arts membership, you will receive $5 dollars off the ticket price of all 2022-2023 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.

Hollywood Arms is a full-length comedic drama by Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett. A young daughter of ineffectual parents finds escape and solace in her own dreams of stardom in this warmhearted, coming-of-age play by comic legend Carol Burnett and her daughter, Carrie Hamilton. Based on the great comedian’s memoir One More Time, this revealing stage version is an entertaining, moving, and sometimes zany look into Carol Burnett‘s not-so Hollywood-land childhood.

Hollywood Arms chronicles the life of a woman named Helen in pre- and post-World War II Hollywood. This funny and moving story centers on three generations of women living on welfare in a one-room apartment at the Hollywood Arms, at the foot of the Hollywood hills. The piece contains a cavalcade of characters, including a tough, funny, yet tender pill-popping Christian Scientist grandmother who cares for the heroine, Helen, after the divorce of her parents; a beautiful wide-eyed and distant mother who is struggling to be a writer, only to drown her ambitions in a bottle; a loving but absent and alcoholic father who wants to be the daddy he never was; and a young girl Helen whose only escape is up on the roof of their rundown apartment house where she creates her own magical world at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. Finally, it’s a story about shattered hopes and realized dreams. Audiences will laugh and cry as they watch the story of the childhood that birthed Carol Burnett‘s incredible talent.

Sunday Apr. 2, 2023 Matinee – House Opens: 2:30pm and Curtain at 3:00pm.

Please note:

• Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
• Subscription tickets are nonrefundable
• All tickets are non-refundable
• A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price. 

Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership

• When you purchase any level of a Marco Island Center for the Arts membership, you will receive $5 dollars off the ticket price of all 2022-2023 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.

Arts Center Theatre welcomes fingerstyle guitarist Glenn Roth to the Live Entertainment series. The unique compositions of this musician will have you unable to believe your ears with one guy, ten flying fingers, and one instrument.

Glenn Roth is a licensed performer of the MTA’s “Music under New York” program.  His concert hall is the vaulted splendor of Grand Central Terminal or the tunnels and platforms of the New York City subway system. This phenomenal guitarist has released six CDs and his original compositions have been hailed as “sheer virtuosity” and “delicate, accomplished solo acoustic guitar work.”