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"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 ...

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 The Farm Bureau of Cape Cod, this and other verse announced the start of The Rat War of 1923-24. This...

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...