With apologies to Orlando Shakes, we’d like to borrow their motto for the upcoming season, which they are calling “The Homecoming.” Welcome home one and all as we take a look at the highlights of the 2021-2022 arts and entertainment season as performing troupes and venues in Central Florida make a long-awaited comeback.
We’ve assembled dozens of activities designed to strengthen family connections—from biking to hiking, star gazing to wall climbing, making pancakes to camping in the backyard, sharing a book to solving a mystery. An abundance of activities on our list are low-cost or free. So let the fun begin!
Pat Williams hasn’t put a book down since he was a kid with a newspaper route, using the money he made from it to fund what became his passion—reading. Now 71, the Orlando Magic executive has read about 7,000 books and has a home library packed with all of them, including rare first printings. In other rooms are hundreds of other tomes anxiously waiting to be read. Be patient, Williams tells them, your time will come.
