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Palm Beach Dramaworks News

Single Tickets On Sale July 22 Camping With Henry World Premiere
Dangerous Instruments
And Tom
For 2024/25 Season By Mark St. Germain By Gina Montet
April 11 To 27, 2025 May 23 To June 8, 2025
Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) is pleased to announce that Warren G. Harding, Laura, a determined single
single tickets for the company’s 25th anniversary season will eager to get away from mother, faces the ultimate test
be on sale beginning July 22 at 10 a.m. at the box office and the press, prying eyes and of love for her exceptionally
online at tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org. In addition to all the presidency, accepts an bright son, Daniel. When
five productions, tickets will also be available for the popular invitation to join Henry Daniel’s brilliance spirals into
programs Dramawise and OutStage@pbd, as will subscriptions Ford and Thomas Edison darkness, Laura finds herself
and single tickets for the Perlberg Festival of New Plays. on their annual camping thrust into a gripping battle
The 2024/25 season features an eclectic array of invigorating trip. Stranded in the woods, against a broken system. In
plays, including two – Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser and they converse about politics, a race against time, she must
Mark St. Germain’s Camping with Henry and Tom – that were ambition, family and fame, confront a parent’s deepest
performed by PBD early in the company’s history. Over the revealing three starkly fears and sacrifice everything
years, longtime patrons have frequently expressed an interest different personalities and world views. A work of fiction to rescue her son from the brink of becoming America’s next
in seeing them again, and Producing Artistic Director William inspired by an actual 1921 excursion, the play deals with tragic headline.
Hayes decided that this special season provides the perfect issues and ideas that remain as relevant today as they were
opportunity to reach back into the company’s past and introduce 100 years ago. Palm Beach Dramaworks News on page 17
new audiences to these estimable works. At the same time, the
company continues its commitment to new plays with the world
premiere of Gina Montet’s Dangerous Instruments, which was
enthusiastically received when it was given a reading as part
of the 2023 New Year/New Plays Festival (now the Perlberg
Festival of New Plays). Rounding out the season are two
critically acclaimed and much honored works: Neil Simon’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers – the first of his plays
ever to be performed by PBD – and Stephen Karam’s Tony
Award-winning The Humans.
Following are descriptions, dates and prices for all programs.

2024/25 Season

Lost In Yonkers
By Neil Simon
November 1 To 17
When their widowed
father heads south to try and
earn a living, two teenage
boys, Jay and Arty, are left
in the care of their autocratic
Grandma Kurnitz, whose
four adult children have been
damaged by her cruelty. Set
during World War II, this
funny and touching Pulitzer
Prize-winning memory play
is both an exploration of the
wounds inflicted by family, and a testament to the power of
familial love and resiliency.

The Dresser
By Ronald Harwood
December 20 To January
5, 2025
It’s 1942, bombs are
dropping over England, and
a renowned but fading actor
is bringing Shakespeare to
the provinces with a ragtag
troupe. Sir, scheduled to give
his 227th performance of
King Lear, is in no condition
to go on, but his devoted, self-
sacrificing dresser, Norman, is
determined to get him onstage.
Sir and Norman’s co-dependent – if unequal – relationship is
the heartbeat of this warts-and-all, tragicomic valentine to the
transcendent magic of theatre.

The Humans
By Stephen Karam
February 14 To March
2, 2025
There’s a sense of
disquiet in the air when
the loving, if dysfunctional,
Blake clan gathers for
Thanksgiving dinner in
daughter Brigid’s dingy
Chinatown apartment. “A
family play that is sort of
infected by my love of the
thriller genre,” is how the
playwright once described
this Tony Award-winning comedy drama, in which the
foibles, fears, and fragilities of an American family play
out with great insight, humor and compassion.