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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.