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Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival Announces Cast

The Palm Beach Shakespeare Beach County Parks and Recreation. Grant funding is
Festival today announced its cast provided by the State of Florida Division of Cultural
lineup for this summer’s Shakespeare Affairs, Publix Supermarket Charities, and the Cultural
by the Sea XXXIV and Shakespeare by Council of Palm Beach County through the Board of
the Palms IV production of William County Commissioners. Shakespeare by the Palms
Shakespeare’s King Lear. The free, IV is presented by The Village of Royal Palm Beach.
outdoor Shakespeare by the Sea is Additional sponsors include Gary and Katherine Parr,
presented in partnership with Palm Frank Cona and Lisa Calberg and an anonymous donor.
Beach County Parks and Recreation In-kind sponsors include The Benjamin School, Florida
on July 11 to 14 and July 18 to 21 at Weekly and Palm Beach Atlantic University. Private and
the Seabreeze Amphitheatre in Carlin corporate sponsorships are still available. To learn more
Park, Jupiter. The encore performance about sponsor opportunities, please email elizabeth@
of Shakespeare by the Palms is pbshakespeare.org.
presented by The Village of Royal About The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival
Palm Beach on July 25 to 28. The The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival is a 501(c)(3)
gates open at 6:30 p.m. with pre-show professional theater company dedicated to enhancing the
entertainment. Performances start at 8 accessibility and appreciation for Shakespearean, classic
p.m. each evening. A donation of $5 and contemporary theater for all ages and socioeconomic
per person is suggested. levels. For more information about the festival, its history
The Palm Beach Shakespeare Amy Simms as King Lear, courtesy of Jeffrey Langlois or its season, please visit www.pbshakespeare.org.
Festival production of King Lear is
adapted and directed by Trent Stephens. This year’s cast The Shakespeare by the Sea XXXIV production of
includes Amy Simms as King Lear, Caroline Tarantolo King Lear takes place July 11 to 14 and 18 to 21 at the
as Regan, Casey McNamara as Albany, Darryl Willis Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park, located at 750
as Gloucester, Julia Kirk as Oswald, Kelly Hussey as South, Florida A1A, Jupiter, FL 33477.
Goneril, Kyler O’Brien as Edgar, Lee Ritter as Kent, The Shakespeare by the Palms IV encore production
Matthew Paszkiet as Edmund, Sara Grant as Cordelia/ of King Lear takes place July 25 to 28 at the Commons
The Fool and Seth Trucks as Cornwall. Park Amphitheater in Commons Park, located at 11600
Considered “one of the greatest tragedies ever Poinciana Blvd., Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411.
performed,” this year’s production of King Lear is a Performances start at 8 p.m. and run until 10 p.m. with
premiere for Palm Beach County’s longest-running a 15-minute intermission. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. with
professional performing arts company. Caught in a pre-show entertainment. Visitors are invited to bring a
carousel of memory, the head of a dysfunctional royal beach chair, blanket and picnic basket, or enjoy on-site
family grapples with power-hungry children and the concession. Admission is free with a suggested donation
threat of losing the empire he created. Real and imagined of $5 per person.
worlds coalesce, creating a political and personal horror Shakespeare by the Sea XXXIV is a coproduction of
that threatens to swallow the mind of the monarch. the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival, Inc. and Palm

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SPOTLIGHT ON HEALTH CARE By Valerie Staggs

Complexity of the knee joint requires a

multi-faceted approach to pain treatment.

Visit any pickleball court around the tions, and injections. Surgery is usu-
country and you’ll notice that one piece ally the last resort, and no problem is
of equipment is becoming more and too small or too big.”
more popular. In addition to the newest
carbon fiber paddles and ball retriever If surgery is recommended, it doesn’t
gadgets, players are sporting a surpris- mean the end to your active lifestyle.
ing array of knee braces. From simple Conditions like a torn meniscus, dam-
stretchy knee sleeves to fully hinged aged ligaments or mild arthritis can of-
knee stabilizers, knee support is the ten be treated arthroscopically. Even if
new norm for people trying to live an a partial or total knee replacement sur-
active lifestyle while dealing with knee gery is needed, you can still enjoy lower
pain or injuries. impact activities like golf, swimming,
bicycling and yes, even pickleball.
Considering that every movement in
your legs and your balance rely on your Sports Medicine & Orthopedics Cen- ti-inflammatory medications can pro-
knees, the knee joint is arguably the ter who performs knee surgery at Jupi- vide relief for minor knee pain. Knee
most important joint in your body. It ter Medical Center. “In reality, only braces can also help; however, using the
is also one of the most complex joints. about 10 percent of my patients end wrong type of brace can result in ad-
Known as a synovial joint, the knee up undergoing knee surgery.” ditional problems. When intermittent
joint consists of bones, cartilage, liga- knee pain becomes severe, Randazzo
ments, muscles and nerves all within In diagnosing knee pain, doctors like says it’s time to seek medical care.
the structure of your knee. Stress or an Randazzo have to go through a seem-
injury to any one of these five inter- ingly endless list of possible diagnoses. “If it’s at the point where an anti-in-
secting parts can cause knee pain that Knee pain can be caused by chronic flammatory medicine isn’t of help, and
can be difficult to pinpoint. Even more conditions such as arthritis or osteo- if you’ve tried home exercise and other
difficult is figuring out when knee pain porosis, inflammatory issues such as interventions aren’t working,” he says,
is concerning enough to seek medical tendinitis or bursitis or injuries such as “then it’s time to see a specialist.” Ran-
treatment. sprains, ligament tears, dislocations or dazzo says symptoms such as swelling
even bone fractures. of the knee joint, recurring or constant
“A lot of people fear going to the doc- knee pain, a knee that is unstable or John L. Randazzo, M.D.
tor or orthopedic specialist because Most active people are accustomed to doesn’t work correctly or an acute knee
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