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Palm Beach Dramaworks News from page 16 Dramawise Perlberg Festival Of New Plays
A program that takes audiences deeper into each production, January 17 To 19, 2025
Tickets for all performances are $92, except for opening divided into two “acts” and an intermission (also known as This esteemed annual event features professional
night ($107) and previews ($72). Evening performances lunch). Act I is an in-depth discussion of the play, while Act readings of five developing plays. Each reading is
are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and matinee II features the cast and artistic team in conversation about the followed by a post-performance discussion in which
performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and production and the creative process and includes a talkback. patrons share their feedback with the playwrights.
Sunday at 2 p.m. Post-performance discussions follow Each program takes place on the Thursday prior to opening Schedule Of Play Readings (Tentative, Subject To
Wednesday and Thursday matinees. night. Act I runs from 10 to 11:30 a.m., intermission (lunch) Change)
All performances, prices and dates subject to change. from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and Act II from 1 to 2 p.m. Friday, January 17, 3 and 7 p.m.
Saturday, January 18, 3 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, January 19, 3 p.m.
Ticket Prices
Subscription to all five plays: $100
Individual tickets: $30 per reading
Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit
theatre company founded in 2000 and located in the heart
of downtown West Palm Beach. Each season, the award-
winning company produces five shows and offers a wide
variety of programs for students at the theatre and in
schools. Committed to fostering the future of theatre, PBD
has become a hub for playwrights in Florida and around
the country to nurture their work through the Perlberg
Festival of New Plays. PBD is a member of Theatre
Communications Group, Florida Professional Theatres
Association, the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County
and National New Play Network.
More information is available on our website www.
palmbeachdramaworks.org.
David Valcich of downtown West Palm Beach at 201 Clematis Street.
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart
For ticket information contact the box office at (561)
514-4042, or visit tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org.

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