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Palm Beach Dramaworks Announces 2025/26 Season

The Crucible, Driving Miss Daisy, The Mountaintop, The Seafarer, And The World Premiere Of Vineland Place

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

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