Page 8 - Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens - August '24

Page 8, Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens
Palm Beach Dramaworks News

Single Tickets On Sale July 22 unequal – relationship is the heartbeat of this warts-and-all, everything to rescue her son from the brink of becoming
America’s next tragic headline.
tragicomic valentine to the transcendent magic of theatre.
For 2024/25 Season The Humans Tickets for all performances are $92, except for opening
By Stephen Karam night ($107) and previews ($72). Evening performances
Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) is pleased to announce that February 14 To March 2, are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and matinee
single tickets for the company’s 25th anniversary season will 2025 performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and
be on sale beginning July 22 at 10 a.m. at the box office and There’s a sense of disquiet Sunday at 2 p.m. Post-performance discussions follow
online at tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org. In addition to all in the air when the loving, if Wednesday and Thursday matinees.
five productions, tickets will also be available for the popular dysfunctional, Blake clan All performances, prices and dates subject to change.
programs Dramawise and OutStage@pbd, as will subscriptions gathers for Thanksgiving Dramawise
and single tickets for the Perlberg Festival of New Plays. dinner in daughter Brigid’s A program that takes audiences deeper into each
The 2024/25 season features an eclectic array of dingy Chinatown apartment. production, divided into two “acts” and an intermission
invigorating plays, including two – Ronald Harwood’s The “A family play that is sort of (also known as lunch). Act I is an in-depth discussion of
Dresser and Mark St. Germain’s Camping with Henry and Tom infected by my love of the the play, while Act II features the cast and artistic team in
– that were performed by PBD early in the company’s history. thriller genre,” is how the conversation about the production and the creative process
Over the years, longtime patrons have frequently expressed an playwright once described and includes a talkback. Each program takes place on the
interest in seeing them again, and Producing Artistic Director this Tony Award-winning Thursday prior to opening night. Act I runs from 10 to 11:30
William Hayes decided that this special season provides the comedy drama, in which the a.m., intermission (lunch) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
perfect opportunity to reach back into the company’s past foibles, fears, and fragilities of an American family play out and Act II from 1 to 2 p.m.
and introduce new audiences to these estimable works. At with great insight, humor and compassion. Perlberg Festival Of New Plays
the same time, the company continues its commitment to new Camping With Henry And Tom January 17 To 19, 2025
plays with the world premiere of Gina Montet’s Dangerous By Mark St. Germain This esteemed annual event features professional readings
Instruments, which was enthusiastically received when it April 11 To 27, 2025 of five developing plays. Each reading is followed by a post-
was given a reading as part of the 2023 New Year/New Plays Warren G. Harding, performance discussion in which patrons share their feedback
Festival (now the Perlberg Festival of New Plays). Rounding eager to get away from with the playwrights.
out the season are two critically acclaimed and much honored the press, prying eyes and Schedule Of Play Readings (Tentative, Subject To
works: Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers the presidency, accepts an Change)
– the first of his plays ever to be performed by PBD – and invitation to join Henry Friday, January 17, 3 and 7 p.m.
Stephen Karam’s Tony Award-winning The Humans. Ford and Thomas Edison Saturday, January 18, 3 and 7 p.m.
Following are descriptions, dates and prices for all programs. on their annual camping Sunday, January 19, 3 p.m.
trip. Stranded in the woods, Ticket Prices
2024/25 Season they converse about politics, Subscription to all five plays: $100
ambition, family and fame, Individual tickets: $30 per reading
Lost In Yonkers revealing three starkly Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit
By Neil Simon different personalities and theatre company founded in 2000 and located in the heart
November 1 To 17 world views. A work of of downtown West Palm Beach. Each season, the award-
When their widowed fiction inspired by an actual winning company produces five shows and offers a wide
father heads south to try and 1921 excursion, the play deals with issues and ideas that variety of programs for students at the theatre and in
earn a living, two teenage remain as relevant today as they were 100 years ago. schools. Committed to fostering the future of theatre, PBD
boys, Jay and Arty, are left World Premiere has become a hub for playwrights in Florida and around
in the care of their autocratic Dangerous Instruments the country to nurture their work through the Perlberg
Grandma Kurnitz, whose By Gina Montet Festival of New Plays. PBD is a member of Theatre
four adult children have been May 23 To June 8, 2025 Communications Group, Florida Professional Theatres
damaged by her cruelty. Set Laura, a determined Association, the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County
during World War II, this single mother, faces the and National New Play Network.
funny and touching Pulitzer ultimate test of love for More information is available on our website www.
Prize-winning memory play her exceptionally bright palmbeachdramaworks.org.
is both an exploration of the son, Daniel. When Daniel’s The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart
wounds inflicted by family, brilliance spirals into of downtown West Palm Beach at 201 Clematis Street.
and a testament to the power of familial love and resiliency. darkness, Laura finds herself For ticket information contact the box office at (561) 514-
The Dresser thrust into a gripping battle 4042, or visit tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org.
By Ronald Harwood against a broken system.
December 20 To January In a race against time, she
5, 2025 must confront a parent’s
It’s 1942, bombs are deepest fears and sacrifice
dropping over England, and
a renowned but fading actor
is bringing Shakespeare to
the provinces with a ragtag
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