{"id":118709,"date":"2026-01-15T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118709\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:52:11","slug":"spend-an-evening-with-nicholas-sparks-at-the-dr-phillips-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118709\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend an evening with Nicholas Sparks at the Dr. Phillips Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"506\" data-attachment-id=\"407981\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/arts\/spend-an-evening-with-nicholas-sparks-at-the-dr-phillips-center\/attachment\/nicholas-sparks-courtesy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicholas-Sparks-Courtesy.jpg?fit=1079%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1079,700\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nicholas Sparks Courtesy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Nicholas Sparks&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicholas-Sparks-Courtesy.jpg?fit=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicholas-Sparks-Courtesy.jpg?fit=780%2C506&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768445531_456_Nicholas-Sparks-Courtesy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407981\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Nicholas Sparks Credit: courtesy image<\/p>\n<p>Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks comes to Orlando this week for a special engagement at the Dr. Phillips Center in partnership with the Orange County Public Library system. <\/p>\n<p>Sparks, best known for worldwide lit hits The Notebook, A Walk to Remember and The Last Song, will take part in a moderated conversation in front of a live audience at Steinmetz Hall. He\u2019ll hold forth on inspiration, the creative process and his life. <\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, mind-bogglingly, a few of Sparks\u2019 works got caught up in the madness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/news\/florida-removed-more-library-books-than-any-state-last-year-says-report-38131928\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida public-school book ban<\/a> of over 700 titles. Hopefully that comes up in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, Steinmetz Hall, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., <a href=\"http:\/\/drphillipscenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">drphillipscenter.org<\/a>, $41.30-$64.90. <\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s daily dose of what matters. Subscribe to The Daily Weekly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/collections\/jan-14-20-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 14-20, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Sparks Credit: courtesy image Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks comes to Orlando this week for a special engagement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[59683,59684,59685,59686,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-118709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-an-evening-with-author-nicholas-sparks","tag-dr-phillips-center-orlando","tag-nicholas-sparks","tag-orange-county-public-library","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}