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      Palm Beach Dramaworks Announces 2025/26 Season



      The Crucible, Driving Miss                        returns to the Lorraine Motel and encounters Camae, a   Vineland Place (World Premiere)

      Daisy, The Mountaintop, The                       beautiful, mysterious maid. She shares some upsetting   By Steven Dietz
                                                        news that compels him to confront his life and legacy
                                                                                                           May 15 to 31, 2026
      Seafarer, And The World                           – “warts and all,” as Hall has said. This spellbinding,     For young writer Henry Sanders, it seemed like the
                                                        inspired fantasia on the great civil rights leader’s last
                                                                                                           perfect job: finishing the long-awaited final book of the
      Premiere Of Vineland Place                        night on earth won the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New   novelist who was his hero. Hired by the novelist’s widow,
                                                                                                           Henry finds himself instead  in  a rapidly developing
                                                        Play.
      Opening Night Oct. 24                             The Seafarer                                       mystery. Vineland Place is an intimate thriller, filled with
                                                        By Conor McPherson                                 dangerous surprises to the final pages.
        A diverse and impressive array of four acclaimed plays   Dec. 12 to 28, 2025                         Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit
      and one world premiere, each of which, in its own way,     It’s a devil of a homecoming when Sharky Harkin   theatre company founded in 2000 and located in the heart
      speaks with an immediacy to today’s audiences, make   returns  to  Dublin  on  Christmas  Eve  to  look  after  his   of downtown West Palm Beach. Each season, the award-
      up Palm Beach Dramaworks’ (PBD) 2025/26 season,   belligerent, alcoholic brother Richard, who’s recently   winning company produces five shows and offers a wide
      Producing Artistic  Director William  Hayes  announced   gone blind. Two of their old boozy friends join them for   variety of programs for students at the theatre and in
      recently.                                         an evening of drinking and poker, and one of them brings   schools. Committed to fostering the future of theatre, PBD
        Two of those plays, Katori Hall’s Olivier Award-  along a newcomer, the portentous Mr. Lockhart, who   has become a hub for playwrights in Florida and around
      winning  The Mountaintop, which opens PBD’s 26th   compels Sharky to confront his past. This suspenseful,   the country to nurture their work through the Perlberg
      season  on  Oct.  24,  and Arthur  Miller’s Tony Award-  dark, and humorous fable is a powerful and ultimately   Festival of New Plays. PBD  is  a member of Theatre
      winning The Crucible, beginning March 27, are inspired   moving tale about second chances and redemption.  Communications Group, Florida Professional Theatres
      by moments in American history that resonate deeply but   Driving Miss Daisy                         Association, the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County,
      couldn’t be more different. The Mountaintop is a two-  By Alfred Uhry                                and NNPN. In 2024, PBD was honored as Non-Profit of the
      character fantasia on Martin Luther King’s last night on   Feb. 6 to 22, 2026                        Year by the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches.
      earth. The Crucible, of course, is inspired by the Salem     This beloved, heartfelt, Pulitzer Prize-winning play is     Evening performances are  Wednesday through
      witch trials and will feature one of the largest casts in   the story of an unlikely, life-changing friendship between   Saturday  at 7:30 p.m.  Matinee  performances  are
      PBD history. The remainder of the schedule is made   Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old Jewish widow, and Hoke   Wednesday, Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  2  p.m.
      up of Conor McPherson’s much-lauded  The Seafarer,   Coleburn, a Black chauffeur hired by her son Boolie.   Post-performance discussions follow Wednesday and
      opening Dec. 12, which is set on Christmas Eve and is   Set in Georgia, the play unfolds over a 25-year period,   Thursday matinees. There are a few differences in the
      so unsentimental and offbeat that it’s the ideal holiday   beginning in 1948. Daisy is initially hostile to Hoke,   schedule for The Seafarer due to the Christmas holiday.
      play for PBD; Alfred Uhry’s beloved, Pulitzer Prize-  but despite seemingly insurmountable differences, their   Please check palmbeachdramaworks.org for dates.
      winning  Driving Miss Daisy, beginning Feb. 6, 2026   relationship blossoms into one of mutual respect and     Subscription packages are available for four or five
      which reflects on aging and overcoming prejudice; and   affection.                                   plays. Single tickets go on sale on July 22. Individual
      the world premiere, on May 15, 2026 of Steven Dietz’s   The Crucible                                 tickets for all performances are $95, except for opening
      Vineland Place, an ingenious mystery that was featured   By Arthur Miller                            night of each production ($115) and previews ($75).
      in the company’s 2025 Perlberg Festival of New Plays.   March 27 to April 12, 2026                   Student tickets are available for $15 with a valid K-12
        Subscriptions go on sale in April.                A masterful, riveting exploration of the 1692 Salem   or university/college ID, and anyone under 40 pays $40
                                                        witch trials, this timeless and timely Tony Award-winning   (no additional fees) with a photo ID. Tickets for educators
      2025/26 Season                                    play is also an allegory for McCarthyism and the House   and active military are half-price with proper ID (other
                                                        Un-American Activities Committee’s modern-day witch   restrictions apply). Group rates are also available. Tickets
      The Mountaintop                                   hunts. Convinced that witches are living among them,   can be purchased through the box office, in person or by
      By Katori Hall                                    Salem is gripped by mass hysteria, paranoia, fear, and   phone at (561) 514-4042, Ext. 2, and online 24 hours a
      Oct. 24 to Nov. 9, 2025                           retribution, with neighbors turning on and turning in   day at palmbeachdramaworks.org.
        It’s April 3, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., having   neighbors, and religious fervor turning a blind eye to     The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart
      just delivered one of his most memorable speeches,   justice. Miller considered The Crucible his finest play.  of downtown West Palm Beach, at 201 Clematis Street.
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