‘Acting Olympics’

Like the venue’s 2016 production of Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady,” this production features a reduced cast — this time, only eight actors. And instead of two pianos onstage, there are three musicians playing new orchestrations by Steve Orich.

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This classic Broadway musical is directed by Jeffrey Binder and runs February 9 through March 12, 2023 at the Norris Center, 755 8th Avenue S., Naples, FL 34102. Opening Night is Saturday, February 11. Tickets are available at gulfshoreplayhouse.org

Delve below the surface of “Mud Row” and theater-goers will find it’s about basic family matters that surpass race and class. Detroit-born actress and playwright Dominique Morisseau in 2019 created the relevant play, a story about two generations of sisters in West Chester, Pennsylvania. “Mud Row” runs through Jan. 29 at Gulfshore Playhouse in downtown Naples (more information in ... Sisterhood: ‘Mud Row’ at Gulfshore Playhouse delves into family matters

“Mud Row” is the work of a playwright a number of Neapolitans have seen in the musical “Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations.” Dominique Morisseau tackled that story impressively, intentionally elevating it above jukebox status. In “Mud Row,” she turns her eye toward the fertile ground of familial relations.