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Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 2024/25 Season

On November 1, just a few short weeks from now, Palm excursion, the play deals with issues and ideas that remain as community that include a pre-show reception, the production,
Beach Dramaworks (PBD) will open its doors for its 25th relevant today as they were 100 years ago. and a post-show reception. Each program takes place on a
anniversary season. When patrons step inside, they’ll be Dangerous Instruments Friday evening, beginning at 7 p.m.
entering a brand new eye-catching and immersive lobby By Gina Montet The Schedule
that is both efficient and welcoming, the perfect place to Directed by Margaret Ledford Lost in Yonkers, November 8
start the evening’s theatre experience. As always, PBD May 23 to June 8, 2025 The Dresser, December 27
is offering a season of eclectic and invigorating plays – Laura, a determined single mother, faces the ultimate test The Humans, February 21, 2025
classic, contemporary, and a world premiere – the kind of of love for her exceptionally bright son, Daniel. When Daniel’s Camping with Henry and Tom, April 18, 2025
thought-provoking material that audiences have come to brilliance spirals into darkness, Laura finds herself thrust into Dangerous Instruments, May 30, 2025
expect. a gripping battle against a broken system. In a race against Tickets are $112 ($92 ticket/$20 reception).
“It’s been a long and sometimes winding road to get to 25 time, she must confront a parent’s deepest fears and sacrifice Perlberg Festival Of New Plays
years, and we are so grateful to have reached this milestone,” everything to rescue her son from the brink of becoming January 17 to 19, 2025
said Producing Artistic Direct William Hayes and Managing America’s next tragic headline. This esteemed annual event features professional readings
Director Sue Ellen Beryl. “When we think back on how we Tickets for all performances are $92, except for opening of five developing plays. Each reading is followed by a post-
started – no money, a vague idea about what we wanted PBD night ($107) and previews ($72). Evening performances performance discussion in which patrons share their feedback
to be, and performing in an old theatre that would be torn are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Matinee with the playwrights.
down not too long after we left – it’s so joyous to reflect on performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday Schedule Of Play Readings (Times TBD)
how far we’ve come. It’s been a lot of hard work, but we at 2 p.m. Post-performance discussions follow Wednesday and Friday, January 17, afternoon and evening
were ably abetted by a wonderful board, staff, and donors, Thursday matinees. Saturday, January 18, afternoon and evening
and encouraged every step of the way by subscribers and All performances, prices, and dates subject to change. Sunday, January 19 afternoon
patrons.” In June, the Chamber of Commerce named PBD Dramawise Ticket Prices
2024 Nonprofit of the Year. A program that takes audiences deeper into each production, Subscription to all five plays: $100
divided into two “acts” and an intermission (also known as Individual tickets: $30 per reading
2024/25 Season lunch). Act I is an in-depth discussion of the play, while Act Palm Beach Dramaworks
II features the cast and artistic team in conversation about the is a professional, nonprofit
Lost In Yonkers production and the creative process and includes a talkback. theatre company founded in
By Neil Simon Each program takes place on the Thursday prior to opening 2000 and located in the heart
Directed by Julianne Boyd night. Act I runs from 10 to 11:30 a.m, intermission (lunch) of downtown West Palm Beach.
November 1 to 17 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and Act II from 1 to 2 p.m. Each season, the award-winning company produces five shows
The Schedule and offers a wide variety of programs for students at the theatre
Lost in Yonkers, October 31 and in schools. Committed to fostering the future of theatre,
The Dresser, December 19 PBD has become a hub for playwrights in Florida and around
The Humans, February 13, 2025 the country to nurture their work through the Perlberg Festival
Camping with Henry and Tom, April 10, 2025 of New Plays. PBD is a member of Theatre Communications
Dangerous Instruments, May 22, 2025 Group, Florida Professional Theatres Association, the
Dramawise Tickets: Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, and NNPN. www.
Act I, Intermission (lunch included), and Act II: $75 palmbeachdramaworks.org
Act I only: $35 The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart of
Act II only: $25 downtown West Palm Beach, at 201 Clematis Street. For ticket
OUTSTAGE@PBD information contact the box office at (561) 514-4042, or visit
Special evenings of each production for the LGBTQ tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org.

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
Directed by J. Barry Lewis
December 20, 2024 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
Directed by J. Barry Lewis
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.
Camping With Henry And Tom Licensed and Insured
By Mark St. Germain
Directed by William Hayes
April 11 to 27, 2025
Warren G. Harding, eager to get away from the press,
prying eyes, and the presidency, accepts an invitation to join
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison on their annual camping trip.
Stranded in the woods, they converse about politics, ambition,
family, and fame, revealing three starkly different personalities
and world views. A work of fiction inspired by an actual 1921