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Palm Beach Dramaworks News

Single Tickets On Sale July 22 For 2024/25 Season

Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) is pleased to announce The Dresser World Premiere
that single tickets for the company’s 25th anniversary season By Ronald Harwood Dangerous Instruments
will be on sale beginning July 22 at 10 a.m. at the box office December 20 To January 5, 2025 By Gina Montet
and online at tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org. In addition It’s 1942, bombs are dropping May 23 To June 8, 2025
to all five productions, tickets will also be available for the over England, and a renowned Laura, a determined single
popular programs Dramawise and OutStage@pbd, as will but fading actor is bringing mother, faces the ultimate test of
subscriptions and single tickets for the Perlberg Festival of Shakespeare to the provinces with love for her exceptionally bright
New Plays. a ragtag troupe. Sir, scheduled son, Daniel. When Daniel’s
The 2024/25 season features an eclectic array of to give his 227th performance brilliance spirals into darkness,
invigorating plays, including two – Ronald Harwood’s The of King Lear, is in no condition Laura finds herself thrust into a
Dresser and Mark St. Germain’s Camping with Henry and to go on, but his devoted, self- gripping battle against a broken
Tom – that were performed by PBD early in the company’s sacrificing dresser, Norman, is system. In a race against time,
history. Over the years, longtime patrons have frequently determined to get him onstage. she must confront a parent’s
expressed an interest in seeing them again, and Producing Sir and Norman’s co-dependent – if unequal – relationship is deepest fears and sacrifice everything to rescue her son from
Artistic Director William Hayes decided that this special the heartbeat of this warts-and-all, tragicomic valentine to the the brink of becoming America’s next tragic headline.
season provides the perfect opportunity to reach back into transcendent magic of theatre. Tickets for all performances are $92, except for opening
the company’s past and introduce new audiences to these The Humans night ($107) and previews ($72). Evening performances
estimable works. At the same time, the company continues By Stephen Karam are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and matinee
its commitment to new plays with the world premiere of Gina February 14 To March 2, 2025 performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and
Montet’s Dangerous Instruments, which was enthusiastically There’s a sense of disquiet Sunday at 2 p.m. Post-performance discussions follow
received when it was given a reading as part of the 2023 in the air when the loving, if Wednesday and Thursday matinees.
New Year/New Plays Festival (now the Perlberg Festival dysfunctional, Blake clan gathers All performances, prices and dates subject to change.
of New Plays). Rounding out the season are two critically for Thanksgiving dinner in Dramawise
acclaimed and much honored works: Neil Simon’s Pulitzer daughter Brigid’s dingy Chinatown A program that takes audiences deeper into each
Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers – the first of his plays ever to apartment. “A family play that production, divided into two “acts” and an intermission
be performed by PBD – and Stephen Karam’s Tony Award- is sort of infected by my love (also known as lunch). Act I is an in-depth discussion of
winning The Humans. of the thriller genre,” is how the the play, while Act II features the cast and artistic team in
Following are descriptions, dates and prices for all playwright once described this conversation about the production and the creative process
programs. Tony Award-winning comedy and includes a talkback. Each program takes place on the
drama, in which the foibles, fears, and fragilities of an American Thursday prior to opening night. Act I runs from 10 to 11:30
2024/25 Season family play out with great insight, humor and compassion. a.m., intermission (lunch) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Camping With Henry And Tom and Act II from 1 to 2 p.m.
Lost In Yonkers By Mark St. Germain Perlberg Festival Of New Plays
By Neil Simon April 11 To 27, 2025 January 17 To 19, 2025
November 1 To 17 Warren G. Harding, eager to This esteemed annual event features professional
When their widowed father get away from the press, prying readings of five developing plays. Each reading is followed
heads south to try and earn a eyes and the presidency, accepts by a post-performance discussion in which patrons share
living, two teenage boys, Jay and an invitation to join Henry Ford their feedback with the playwrights.
Arty, are left in the care of their and Thomas Edison on their Schedule Of Play Readings (Tentative, Subject To
autocratic Grandma Kurnitz, annual camping trip. Stranded in Change)
whose four adult children have the woods, they converse about Friday, January 17, 3 and 7 p.m.
been damaged by her cruelty. Set politics, ambition, family and Saturday, January 18, 3 and 7 p.m.
during World War II, this funny fame, revealing three starkly Sunday, January 19, 3 p.m.
and touching Pulitzer Prize- different personalities and world Ticket Prices
winning memory play is both an views. A work of fiction inspired Subscription to all five plays: $100
exploration of the wounds inflicted by family, and a testament by an actual 1921 excursion, the play deals with issues and Individual tickets: $30 per reading
to the power of familial love and resiliency. ideas that remain as relevant today as they were 100 years ago. 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.
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart
of downtown West Palm Beach at 201 Clematis Street. For
ticket information contact the box office at (561) 514-4042,
or visit tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org.

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