{"id":251183,"date":"2026-04-29T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251183\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:28:08","slug":"symbiosis-science-and-secrets-florida-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251183\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbiosis, Science and Secrets &#8211; Florida Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Laboratory Theater of Florida is proud to present concert readings of the top three finalists for the 2026 Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting Award, running May 7\u20139. The 2026 winner is\u00a0\u201cSymbiotic\u201d\u00a0by Baylee Shlichtman. Finalists are John Mabey\u2019s\u00a0\u201cA Thousand Words\u201d\u00a0and Simon Bowler\u2019s\u00a0\u201cRedshift.\u201d About the plays The Winner:\u00a0\u201cSymbiotic\u201d\u00a0by Baylee Shlichtman: A stunningly beautiful play about Marichka, an aquarist at the Jellyfish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/articles\/bonita-springs-ae\/symbiosis-science-and-secrets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Laboratory Theater of Florida is proud to present concert readings of the top three finalists for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-251183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251183","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=251183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}