Kristen Coury News

Gulfshore Playhouse is preparing to begin their 2013-2014 season with the First Annual New Works Festival, beginning today, August 12, and continuing through August 17. The week-long festival is an exciting new addition to the programming that Gulfshore Playhouse is offering to the Naples, Fl audience.

Gulfshore Playhouse is preparing to begin their 2013-2014 season with the First Annual New Works Festival to take place August 12 - 17, 2013. The week-long festival is an exciting new addition to the programming that Gulfshore Playhouse is offering to the Naples, Fl audience.

The Gulfshore Playhouse Theatre Education Project will host four summer camps at the Norris Center. Camps will take place in June and July, 2013. These four camps will give Collier County students, ages 5-18, the opportunity to learn using the lively art of theatre.

'Master Class,' Terrence McNally's play about the life of opera diva Maria Callas, seems tailor-made to continue the partnership between Gulfshore Playhouse and the Naples Philharmonic. Produced by Gulfshore, performed in the Daniels Pavilion, the show combines a larger-than-life character, smart writing, lush music and operatic arias.

Gulfshore Playhouse has announced the addition of Todd Gates, Gail Kern Paster and Tennille Sevigny to their Board of Directors. Todd, Gail, and Tennille join current Board Members Bob Harden, Chair, Kristen Coury, President, Sandy Pastoor, Secretary, Don Gunther, Jason Korn and Jack Nortman.

Gulfshore Playhouse ends their seventh season with the musical play Master Class, in partnership with the Philharmonic Center for the Arts, playing April 5 through 21, with a preview performance April 4.

Gulfshore Playhouse has announced they have received a $100,000 donation last week from Patty and Jay Baker, local philanthropists and supporters of the Arts.

Gulfshore Playhouse announces their First Annual New Works Festival August 12 - 18, 2013, with three public readings on August 16 and 17. Gulfshore Playhouse will also present the hot new Broadway hit Venus in Fur by David Ives October 4 through 12, with two preview performances on October 2 and 3.

Gulfshore Playhouse continues their spectacular seventh season with the Civil War period drama The Whipping Man, playing March 15 through 30, with a $25 preview performance March 14.

Gulfshore Playhouse has produced good shows, great shows and shows I wasn't quite a fan of. Now, with 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' Kristen Coury finds herself in a different place entirely. 'Earnest' is amazing. I absolutely don't care if you hate Oscar Wilde. This will be the best two and a half hours of your life. Cucumber sandwiches not included. I don't like cucumber sandwiches anyway.

The Gulfshore Playhouse Theatre Education Project continues their Professional Training Series with two new workshops on diction and dialect. The professional training workshops are geared toward professional actors and stage managers in the South Florida area.

Gulfshore Playhouse continues their spectacular seventh season with the hilarious, classic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, playing February 15 through March 3, with a preview performance February 14.

Gulfshore Playhouse is preparing their 2013-2014 season with five diverse productions, running from November to April.

There's not really any way around this. Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'I Am My Own Wife' features one man in a dress performing 37 different roles. If you don't like that sort of thing, leave. Of course, that would be a grave mistake, because Kraig Swartz will change your life.

Gulfshore Playhouse continues their spectacular seventh season with the one-man Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "I Am My Own Wife" by Doug Wright, playing January 18 through February 3, 2013, with a preview performance on January 17th.

Gulfshore Playhouse presents ART, now running through November 18, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

The current offering at Gulfshore Playhouse is a theatrical event that you won't soon forget. 'Art' is the 1998 Tony Award winning French play that examines the relationship between three middle-aged men who find themselves at the crux of their long friendship.

Gulfshore Playhouse will present two Pay-What-You-Can preview performances for their "Reza in Rep" productions on October 16 & 17. These Pay-What-You-Can previews will provide opportunities for all members of the community to see two Tony Award-winning plays at a professional regional theatre. Half of the proceeds from each performance will benefit two local charities. Both previews will take place at 8 p.m.

Gulfshore Playhouse is preparing their seventh season with a variety of diverse productions, presentation formats, and venues. Naples' first and finest professional theatre company is growing to six Mainstage productions this year, running from October through April.