‘Acting Olympics’

Gulfshore Playhouse has announced its 2021-22 season, featuring five productions, including a  world premiere from Jeffrey Binder. The season will open with August Wilson’s Radio Golf (Nov. 13-Dec. 5), the final play in Wilson’s revered Century Cycle. It tells the story of Harmond Wilks, who is determined to save his childhood neighborhood by becoming the Pittsburgh’s first Black ... Gulfshore Playhouse Announces 2021-22 Season

MAYTAG VIRGIN by Audrey Cefaly is now playing at Gulfshore Playhouse. Directed by Jeffrey Binder and starring Ian Merrill Peakes and Karen Peakes, this show tells the story of neighbors Jack and Lizzy and the relationship they develop. Ian Merrill Peakes and Karen Peakes play Jack and Lizzy, respectively, and I really enjoyed their performances. I always love watching couples who are married ... BWW Review: MAYTAG VIRGIN at Gulfshore Playhouse

Is love sweeter when it’s unexpected, when it arrives later in life, after great loss? Is it worth the risk to be vulnerable? “Maytag Virgin,” at Gulfshore Playhouse (through April 3) plays with these questions. “It’s a hopeful love story for a time when we need hopeful love stories,” says playwright Audrey Cefaly. “It’s what ... Friendship, relationships, love and redemption — “Maytag Virgin” delivers

Gulfshore Playhouse is bringing audiences to the Deep South with its live production of Maytag Virgin. Gulfshore Playhouse’s second equity-approved production this spring, performances began March 20 and run through April 3. Written by Audrey Cefaly and directed by Broadway veteran Jeffrey Binder, this romantic comedy will have audiences falling in love with the starring ... Gulfshore Playhouse presents Maytag Virgin on Naples stage

To think of “Maytag Virgin” solely as a story of inching toward romance in the heavy cloak of widow and widowerhood is to sell Audrey Cefaly’s writing short. The current production at Gulfshore Playhouse subtly peels back layers of its characters’ personalities to show how experience, family and theology forge their responses to life as much as love.  ... Gulfshore Playhouse’s ‘Maytag Virgin’ a multifaceted gem of a story