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The “world premiere” of “The Bona Dea Challenge” is coming to Marco Island, via the Marco Players.

“The Hallelujah Girls” takes place in an abandoned church-turned-day-spa where a group of friends gather every Friday afternoon for “Spa-Dee-Dah!”

"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 Pond," he felt more people are watching what The Studio Players are presenting. Major roles for gays ...

Actress Bette Davis originated the immortal line: "Old age ain't no place for sissies." It also ain't no place for people without a sense of humor. So say three Naples women who have put its embarrassments, doubts and frustrations onstage in an original comedy, "Laugh, Cry, Pee, Repeat!"  Their play is a knowing wink to anyone — male or female — who has suffered the constant mantra to exercise, had a bladder shed its excess without permission or became unhinged over senior dating. Patronizing family members. The world premiere is at Marco Players this week, and its playwrights aren'...

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, sincere and, in the end, harmless — if helpless — attachments to our frustrations. And we have you...