Gulfshore Playhouse Announces Its Sensational Sixth Season

Gulfshore Playhouse Announces its Sensational Sixth Season

Gulfshore Playhouse is preparing their Sensational Sixth season with lively and diverse productions. Naples' first and finest professional theatre company will stage four mainstage productions running from October through April.  

"With our sold out performances defining our 2010-2011 season, I'm ecstatic to see that our brand is really catching on here in Southwest Florida. I'm delighted we can continue to serve our community with New York-quality professional theatre at affordable prices," states Kristen Coury, Playhouse Founder and Producing Artistic Director.

(Kristen Coury Is Pictured)

Opening the Gulfshore Playhouse 2011-2012 mainstage season is the World Premiere of the play Handle with Care by Jason Odell Williams, playing October 28 through November 20, with a preview performance on October 27. Handle with Care is the story of Ayelet, an Israeli girl who is dragged by her grandmother on a road trip to America in search of a dream. Despite a botched DHL delivery, an unexpected blizzard, and an ill-equipped translator who is not really cut out for the job, the clues her grandmother deftly leaves behind eventually lead Ayelet to find what she didn't even know she was looking for: her destiny. Playwright Jason Odell Williams along with wife Charlotte Cohn will star in the production as Josh and Ayelet. In the 2010-2011 season, three of Jason's plays were produced in New York. Charlotte is a former Lieutenant in the Israeli Army and now a Broadway Diva, winning an Ovation Award in Baz Luhrmann's production of "La Boheme". Charlotte and Jason will be on hand for several audience talk-backs after the shows.  

The hot new Broadway hit, Race by David Mamet, is slated as the second show of the season, playing January 27 through February 12, with a preview on January 26. Race follows a law firm taking on a racially-charged case. Three attorneys, two black and one white, are offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman. The plot unfolds as the lawyers and defendant grapple with the evidence of the case and their own feelings. A true case of "he said, she said", Race will make you question what you thought, what you heard, and what you think you know. Race opened on Broadway in September 2009, and was the longest-running play of the 2009-2010 Broadway season. Playwright David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winner.

The hilarious romp A Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo), pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. A Fox on the Fairway is Ken Ludwig's brand-new tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940's. You won't want to miss this charmingly madcap adventure - about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with... golf. A Fox on the Fairway plays March 2 through 18, with a preview performance March 1.

The fourth and final Gulfshore Playhouse show of the 2011- 2012 season is the Tennessee Williams classic A Streetcar Named Desire, playing April 6 through 27, with a preview performance April 5. 2012 will mark the 65th Anniversary of this enduring classic. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows the story of Blanche DuBois, a weak and disturbed woman on a desperate prowl for some place in the world to call her own. After losing their ancestral home, Belle Reve, Blanche shows up at the doorstep of her sister, Stella, in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Putting on airs of refinement and Southern gentility, Blanche tries to impress her brother-in-law, and his gentle, good-natured friend, Mitch. Seeking to escape from reality, and an emblem of a lost traditional South, Blanche becomes a victim of the harsh present. Marlon Brando starred in the Broadway production and the 4-time Academy Award-winning film adaptation.  

Season Subscriptions will be available for both three and four show packages beginning April 1st. Single tickets will be available for purchase beginning May 1st. 

Gulfshore Playhouse is Naples' first and finest professional theatre company offering a variety of stimulating, thought-provoking and entertaining productions from important classics to Broadway hits and innovative new works. Their shows are conceived and created in-house using a team of professional designers and technicians as well as Equity actors with credits ranging from Broadway shows to film and television. All Gulfshore Playhouse productions are presented exclusively at The Norris Center in Downtown Naples.

All shows are presented exclusively at the Norris Center, 755 8th Avenue South Naples. Subscription packages and single tickets are on sale now by calling (866) 811-4111 or on their website www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org. For more information or to book tickets, please call (239) 261-PLAY (7529).

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