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Even with Princess phones and dated 60s prices,"Barefoot in the Park," in a Naples production now, is a full-roast blend of wit and physical comedy.

If youre not sure youre sold on one production by The Studio Players, wait five minutes. Something totally different will come along. The community theater organization that feeds on edgy but loves nostalgia for dessert is offering both Harvey Fiersteins "Torch Song" (Sept. 10-26) and Neil Simons "Barefoot in the Park" (March 18-April 10) in its coming season. Sprinkled in among those two are: "Nuts" (Nov. 5-21), the Tom Topor courtroom drama of a call girl who fights her parents motion to de...

ROLI’s luminous keyboard offers MPE control and a very colourful way of working.

Lewis Blacks "One Slight Hitch," written by a comedian legendary for his rants, has at least one in it. But its war-bride vent is sublime: "We ache for life, hoping to flood the world with innocent children, replacing the smell of death with baby powder." Its a wedding story, so theres also a wedding in it. But up until five minutes before the play ends, no one knows just who will be marching down the flower-decked, carefully carpeted lawn of the suburban Cincinnati home in which its set. ...

"Torch Song Trilogy" is likely a first for Collier County theater. Scott Lilly, artistic director of The Studio Players, concedes it may not be a welcome first to everyone.  The three single-act evening of Harvey Fierstein plays rotates around a Jewish homosexual man looking for love, marriage and a family, possibly the first such portrayal in Collier County — or even in all of Southwest Florida. But coming off soldout —  even with extra seating added — performances of "On Golden P...

Registering History: To Arms! The Rats Are Coming! By Bob Leaversuch Around Christmas 1923, towns, farm agencies, civic groups and local newspapers across the Cape united in support of this call to arms: Oh you dirty, filthy rat Cape Cod’s set for you a trap Long have you this earth encumbered But your days are surely numbered In the High Court of Appeal Your case has had a good fair deal Now the home folks of Cape Cod Are going to plant you ‘neath the sod. Written by an anonymous poet at T...

Marco Eagle Prediction: No one with a beating heart, and that includes both genders, will make it through the final scene of "The Waverly Gallery" without gulping, or more likely, tears. We all have in our personal life boxes family members like Gladys, the aging activist who is losing her hearing, her art gallery and her mental wiring. We have relatives like her grim-faced daughter, Ellen, who loves her mother and fears a similar future. We know people like the artist Don, clueless, sin...