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Single Tickets On Sale July 22 For 2024/25 Season

Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) is pleased to announce The Dresser thrust into a gripping battle
that single tickets for the company’s 25th anniversary season By Ronald Harwood against a broken system. In
will be on sale beginning July 22 at 10 a.m. at the box office December 20 To January a race against time, she must
and online at tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org. In addition 5, 2025 confront a parent’s deepest
to all five productions, tickets will also be available for the It’s 1942, bombs are fears and sacrifice everything
popular programs Dramawise and OutStage@pbd, as will dropping over England, and to rescue her son from the
subscriptions and single tickets for the Perlberg Festival of a renowned but fading actor brink of becoming America’s
New Plays. is bringing Shakespeare to next tragic headline.
The 2024/25 season features an eclectic array of the provinces with a ragtag T ickets for all
invigorating plays, including two – Ronald Harwood’s The troupe. Sir, scheduled to give performances are $92,
Dresser and Mark St. Germain’s Camping with Henry and his 227th performance of except for opening night
Tom – that were performed by PBD early in the company’s King Lear, is in no condition ($107) and previews ($72).
history. Over the years, longtime patrons have frequently to go on, but his devoted, Evening performances are
expressed an interest in seeing them again, and Producing self-sacrificing dresser, Norman, is determined to get him Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and matinee
Artistic Director William Hayes decided that this special onstage. Sir and Norman’s co-dependent – if unequal – performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and
season provides the perfect opportunity to reach back into relationship is the heartbeat of this warts-and-all, tragicomic Sunday at 2 p.m. Post-performance discussions follow
the company’s past and introduce new audiences to these valentine to the transcendent magic of theatre. Wednesday and Thursday matinees.
estimable works. At the same time, the company continues The Humans All performances, prices and dates subject to change.
its commitment to new plays with the world premiere of Gina By Stephen Karam Dramawise
Montet’s Dangerous Instruments, which was enthusiastically February 14 To March 2, A program that takes audiences deeper into each
received when it was given a reading as part of the 2023 2025 production, divided into two “acts” and an intermission
New Year/New Plays Festival (now the Perlberg Festival There’s a sense of disquiet (also known as lunch). Act I is an in-depth discussion of
of New Plays). Rounding out the season are two critically in the air when the loving, the play, while Act II features the cast and artistic team in
acclaimed and much honored works: Neil Simon’s Pulitzer if dysfunctional, Blake clan conversation about the production and the creative process
Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers – the first of his plays ever to gathers for Thanksgiving and includes a talkback. Each program takes place on the
be performed by PBD – and Stephen Karam’s Tony Award- dinner in daughter Brigid’s Thursday prior to opening night. Act I runs from 10 to 11:30
winning The Humans. dingy Chinatown apartment. a.m., intermission (lunch) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Following are descriptions, dates and prices for all programs. “A family play that is sort of and Act II from 1 to 2 p.m.
infected by my love of the Perlberg Festival Of New Plays
2024/25 Season thriller genre,” is how the January 17 To 19, 2025
playwright once described This esteemed annual event features professional readings
Lost In Yonkers this Tony Award-winning comedy drama, in which the foibles, of five developing plays. Each reading is followed by a post-
By Neil Simon fears, and fragilities of an American family play out with great performance discussion in which patrons share their feedback
November 1 To 17 insight, humor and compassion. with the playwrights.
When their widowed Camping With Henry And Tom Schedule Of Play Readings (Tentative, Subject To Change)
father heads south to try By Mark St. Germain Friday, January 17, 3 and 7 p.m.
and earn a living, two April 11 To 27, 2025 Saturday, January 18, 3 and 7 p.m.
teenage boys, Jay and Warren G. Harding, Sunday, January 19, 3 p.m.
Arty, are left in the care of eager to get away from Ticket Prices
their autocratic Grandma the press, prying eyes and Subscription to all five plays: $100
Kurnitz, whose four the presidency, accepts an Individual tickets: $30 per reading
adult children have been invitation to join Henry Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit
damaged by her cruelty. Set Ford and Thomas Edison theatre company founded in 2000 and located in the heart
during World War II, this on their annual camping of downtown West Palm Beach. Each season, the award-
funny and touching Pulitzer trip. Stranded in the woods, winning company produces five shows and offers a wide
Prize-winning memory they converse about politics, variety of programs for students at the theatre and in
play is both an exploration of the wounds inflicted by ambition, family and fame, schools. Committed to fostering the future of theatre, PBD
family, and a testament to the power of familial love and revealing three starkly has become a hub for playwrights in Florida and around
resiliency. different personalities and the country to nurture their work through the Perlberg
world views. A work of fiction inspired by an actual 1921 Festival of New Plays. PBD is a member of Theatre
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By Gina Montet palmbeachdramaworks.org.
May 23 To June 8, 2025 The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart of
Laura, a determined single mother, faces the ultimate downtown West Palm Beach at 201 Clematis Street. For ticket
test of love for her exceptionally bright son, Daniel. When information contact the box office at (561) 514-4042, or visit
Daniel’s brilliance spirals into darkness, Laura finds herself tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org.
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