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Society’s Failure To Help Impaired Children Is At Heart Of Dangerous Instruments
Pain, despair and desperation deepen in a swirling descent into a dread-encrusted darkness in the premiere of Gina Montét’s Dangerous Instruments at Palm Beach Dramaworks.
Clearly, not a spring lark musical; instead, a grueling message drama with gallows wit that should be performed throughout the country.
A Century Later the Issues Remain in Dramaworks’ Camping With Henry and Tom
Thirty years ago, Mark St. Germain wrote a play Camping With Henry and Tom fictionalizing an actual meeting among Ford, Edison and President Harding. Given the politics, religion, racism, civic responsibility, and technology issues set in 1921, then the production at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month, he might have written it last week.
Palm Beach Dramaworks Unveils Five Developing Titles You Definitely Have Not Seen
Over the next few months, Palm, Beach Dramaworks and Theatre Lab based at FAU will be producing full productions and public readings that will give playwrights a chance to spot where to fine tune their work based on the actors’ on-stage performances and the audiences reactions to specific sections.
Dramawork’s Lost In Yonkers Is Profound, Trenchant Drama
The 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers with its intersection of culture and families shows Simon at his most profound and makes a fitting launch for Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 25th season.
Trying Closes Palm Beach Dramaworks Season
By Jan Sjostrom Heavy footsteps sound off-stage in the opening scene of Trying running through June 9 Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. The steps precede the entrance of Francis Biddle, scion of a patrician Philadelphia family and …
Behind the Scenes: Dramaworks’ Death of a Salesman
Palm Beach Dramaworks is embracing the seemingly contradictory challenges of instilling new vigor, imagination and freshness without violating an experienced audience’s recollections of past productions in Death of a Salesman. In this feature, we interview director J. Barry Lewis about the thinking behind this revival.