2023-2024 Season
All Arts Center Theatre Productions will be at the theatre venue located in Marco Town Center (former home of The Marco Players)
1089 N Collier Blvd Suite #432
The Arts Center Theatre questions should be directed to 239-394-4221 Monday-Friday 9am-4pm if you have questions that you need to be answered regarding a ticketed show (for that weekend) during the weekend you should direct them to the box office as they open a half hour before curtain for the weekend performances. (1089 N. Collier Blvd Suite #432)
Marco Island Center for the Arts Presents
The Fort Myer’s Theatre production of
Meredith Willson’s The Music Man
At the Arts Center Theatre
October 18 – October 21, 2023
Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center
The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.
Book, Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson
Story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
Show excluded from season ticket sales.
October 25 – November 12, 2023
The 39 Steps
Adapted by Patrick Barlow
from the novel by John Buchan
Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have the intriguing, thrilling, riotous and unmissable comedy. The show hurtles a notorious fugitive and a spellbound blonde from a London music hall north by northwest to Scotland’s most remote highlands. Will they save Britain from a den of devious spies? A cast of four actors plays over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure. The 39 Steps contains every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie — including the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Forth Bridge, the first theatrical bi-plane crash ever staged, and the sensational death-defying finale in the London Palladium.
“The 39 Steps” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concortheatricals.com
By Arrangement with Fiery Angel Limited
THE 39 STEPS
Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the novel by John Buchan
From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited
And an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
November 29 – December 10, 2023
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] [AGAIN]
by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield, new revisions by Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center
An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London’s longest-running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London’s West End at the Criterion Theatre! Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] [AGAIN] is produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com
Marco Island Center for the Arts Presents
Gulfshore Ballet’s Highlights of “The Nutcracker”
November 18, 2023 (one performance)
Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center
Under the direction of Artistic Directors Iliana Lopez & Franklin Gamero, Gulfshore Ballet will perform HIGHLIGHTS from Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic, The Nutcracker ballet is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann that centers on a family’s Christmas Eve celebration. The traditional dances will be woven together by narration from special guest storytellers.
Gulfshore Ballet is Southwest Florida’s premier not-for-profit school of Classical Ballet. The training at Gulfshore Ballet combines Cuban, American, and Russian techniques and brings a quality of excellence not normally found outside major metropolitan cities
Saturday, November 18, 2023 – House Opens: 2:30 and Curtain at 3:00pm.
Show excluded from season ticket sales.
Marco Island Center for the Arts Presents
The Fort Myer’s Theatre production of
White Christmas
At the Arts Center Theatre
December 13 – December 17, 2023
Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Book by David Ives and Paul Blake
Original stage production directed by WALTER BOBBIE
Orchestrations
Larry Blank
Vocal and Dance Arrangements
Bruce Pomahac
Based Upon the Paramount Pictures Film Written For the Screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
Based on the beloved, timeless film, this heartwarming musical adaptation features 17 Irving Berlin songs and a book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Show excluded from season ticket sales.
January 3 – 21, 2024
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center
Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Their aggrieved spouses appear and a roundelay of affiliations ensues as the women first stick together, then apart, and new partnerships are formed. A uniquely humorous play boasting numerous successful Broadway runs with stars like Coward himself, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude Lawrence, Tammy Grimes, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor.
“Private Lives” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
February 7 – 25, 2024
The Queen of Bingo
by Jeanne Michels
and Phyllis Murphy
Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center
The Queen of Bingo explores the worlds of Bingo, family ties, diet crazes, widowhood, hot flashes and winning! ‘Sis’ and ‘Babe,’ two sisters on the other side of 50, want to add a little fun and excitement to their lives…but where to find it? BINGO! The audience joins in the fun during the “Middle Bird Special” – a real Bingo game where some lucky audience member wins at every performance! Theatergoers young and old will howl with laughter as two zany, crazy gals, light up the stage in this comedy hit.
The Queen of Bingo
by Jeanne Michels and Phyllis Murphy
“THE QUEEN OF BINGO is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists PlayService collection. (www.dramatists.com)”
March 13 – 30, 2024
Vanities
by Jack Heifner
Arts Center Theatre at Marco Town Center
This bittersweet comedy is an astute, snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls. In 1963, Joanne, Kathy, and Mary are aggressively vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their lives have diverged and their friendship, which once thrived on assumptions as well-coordinated as sweater sets, is strained and ambiguous. Old time banter rings false. Their attempts at honest conversation only show they can no longer afford to have very much in common. This 1976 Drama Desk Award Nominee for Best New Play premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights then transferred to the Chelsea Theatre Center (now the Westside Theatre)
Vanities
By Jack Heifner
“Vanities” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Please note:
Due to the nature of theatrical bookings, titles, seating chart, schedules and pricing subject to change.
Subscription tickets are nonrefundable. Subscription tickets may be exchanged once during the run of each production.
All tickets are non-refundable. Non-subscription tickets may not be exchanged.
A $5.00 venue restoration fee is included in the ticket price.
Marco Island Center for the Arts Membership
When you purchase any Marco Island Center for the Arts membership level, you will receive $5 off the ticket price of all 2023-2024 Mainstage productions. Learn more about membership HERE.