CHRIS SILK, Social Media Editor / Theatre Critic

About CHRIS SILK

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Chris Silk joined the Daily News in January 1999. He graduated summa cum laude from the honors program at the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a degree in Journalism and minors in Spanish and History.

While at ULM, he spent four semesters as editor of his college newspaper, The Pow Wow, which was honored with a public service journalism award from the Southeastern Journalism Conference and a "Best in Louisiana" award from the Louisiana Press Association.

Chris interned at the Daily News through the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Online Editing program in the summer of 1998 before returning to Naples full-time to work on the Web desk. He remembers when there were only two lanes headed over the Gordon River on U.S. 41 and you could see cows along Interstate 75 in Bonita Springs.

Chris began reviewing local theater performances for the Daily News during the fall of 2007. His first review was of Queen Latifah's slamming performance at the Philharmonic, while his favorite so far has been "Eagle Fruit," British playwright Terry Johnson's scream-and-leap blast of performance art for the spiritually deprived from the Laboratory Theater of Florida in December 2009.

Why are you STILL READING THIS? Then you must really, really, really love me. Fine. Go read my Starbucks Drama blog. I tell it like it really is!

Position History

Social Media Editor / Theatre Critic
12/01/2008 - current
Site Manager
12/01/2006 - 12/01/2008
Online Editor
01/08/1999 - 12/01/2006

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Review: Broadway Palm spins marvelous musical fairy tale with sugary "Cinderella" Published 05/18/2012 at 2:24 p.m.
Move over jukebox musicals.Take a hike rock opera. Rodgers and Hammerstein are back in town. "Cinderella," playing now at Broadway Palm, reminds audiences what true, lush, beautiful music and melody is - and could be. You know the story - ...
Review: No need to bribe audience for laughs at hilarious "Government Inspector" Published 05/17/2012 at 2:10 a.m.
Corruption! Sing it to the tune of "Tradition" from "Fiddler on the Roof." Everybody now! Corruption! The mayors! Corruption! The doctors! Corruption! The judges! Corruption! The wives! Corruption! That's the hilarious theme of Nikolai Gogol's sharp, savvy satire "The Government ...
Review: City Scenes gets "Naked," scores with fresh, original debut Published 05/14/2012 at 3:44 p.m.
City Scenes Theater Company got "Naked" for their Fort Myers debut. Adriel Munoz strips to boxers and a tee at times to bring the poignant, moving story of "John Doe," a bullied teen to life. The powerful original work, written ...
Review: Lab Theater fights "The Plague" in innovative adaptation of Camus novel Published 05/13/2012 at 11:29 p.m.
Something is causing the rats in Oran to die in droves. They die in the streets, the houses and the hotels. The rats carry bubonic plague. Death rides the wind. Oran is a city under siege. The Lab Theater dives ...
Review: BIG ARTS pairs up feuding duo in comedic tale "Marriage is Murder" Published 05/11/2012 at 4:16 p.m.
Love and marriage. Love and marriage. Go together like … an axe to the head? If you're Paul and Polly Butler, murder - and laughs - hide at every turn in the BIG ARTS Community Players production of "Marriage is ...
Theatre Conspiracy recruits nine power couples for three-week run of "Love Letters" Published 05/10/2012 at 2:30 p.m.
When Bill Taylor calls, people pick up the phone. The Theatre Conspiracy artistic director rounded up nine Southwest Florida power couples to take the stage over nine nights, reading tender A.R. Gurney play "Love Letters" to delighted audiences. Half the ...
New Fort Myers theater company wants audiences to get 'Naked' at upcoming one-man show Published 05/10/2012 at 10:54 a.m.
Carmen Crussard wants audiences to get "naked" on May 11. And May 12. And May 13. But not that kind of naked. Southwest Florida's newest theater company, City Scenes, debuts with "Naked," an intense, original, one-man show about one boy's ...
Review: Island Players score a winner with delightful "Queen of Bingo" Published 05/08/2012 at 3:04 p.m.
Bingo. Five letters. An entire world of social, cultural and prize-winning opportunities. The Island Players explore them all during their season-ending comedy "The Queen of Bingo," a simple, but heart-warming charmer about two sisters, a pile of bingo chips and ...
Review: Florida Rep solves "The Mystery of Irma Vep" in fast, funny fashion | VIDEO Updated 05/10/2012 at 11:32 p.m.
Oh Edgar. Oh Enid. Edgar. Enid. Edgaaar. Eeeniid. EDGAR! ENID! EDGAR! ENID! oh, edgar. oh, enid. Pant. Gasp. Cigarettes. Yes, ladies and gents. That was a sex scene. Without the sex. You get all that - and more in Florida ...
Review: TheatreZone taps through the Twenties to find a bouncy "Boy Friend" Published 05/04/2012 at 3:29 p.m.
TheatreZone dove back into the Jazz Age and tapped to the sounds of the Roaring Twenties along the French Riviera as they closed their season Thursday. Frothy musical "The Boy Friend" offers delights aplenty, although the production itself can sometimes ...