Cape Coral’s newest theater has staged its last comedy and served its last pastry. Cape Café Dessert Theatre performed its final show Dec. 20 after only nine months in business.
Playwright Joe Simonelli says his fledgling theater “did OK in the summer” after a rocky start in March. But then he started running into dwindling audiences and difficulty finding actors for his shows — a problem he says other Southwest Florida theaters have been facing, too.
“It’s a lack of ticket sales…” Simonelli says. “And I couldn’t get actors to audition, even though we were paying them. I couldn’t do it…