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Mortality Is Funny As Well As Terrifying In Superb Absurdist Exit The King At Dramaworks

The word “hilarious” rarely applies to a bleak unblinking play about mortality, but Palm Beach Dramawork’s superb production of Eugene Ionesco’s Exit The King earns it, along with “profoundly thought-provoking” and other accolades. Simply, it ranks among the best work that the company has mounted in its 13 seasons.

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Dramaworks’ William Hayes Elected President of FPTA

William Hayes, producing artistic director of Palm Beach Dramaworks, has been elected president of the Florida Professional Theatres Association , a group designed to encourage companies to better collaborate, develop and promote live professional theatre throughout Florida.

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Dramaworks’ Master Harold Remains Incisive Look at Racism

The obscenity that was racism in South Africa in the mid 20th Century depicted in Master Harold…and the boys may be less virulent today, but Athol Fugard’s 1982 play at Palm Beach Dramaworks remains a gut punch of theater because the poison so clearly persists around us all with a dispiriting universality.

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Laura Turnbull’s Tour de Force Highlights PB Dramaworks’ Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

This edition of Paul Zindel’s The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds at Palm Beach Dramaworks features an overwhelming bravura performance of Laura Turnbull as an embittered, self-pitying mother wildly striking out at her daughters as displaced revenge for the blighted tragedy that chance has made of her life.

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Palm Beach Dramaworks On Cusp of Unveiling New Home

Even the marquee will also be revamped in the next three weeks/ Photos by Bill Hirschman By Bill Hirschman Even with a month of work remaining before the gala opening on 11/11/11, Palm Beach Dramaworks’ new home in the transmogrified …

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News Briefs: Dramaworks Gets $2 Million; Gepner Goes to Papermill

  The South Florida theater scene is so busy that often the news comes too fast for us to keep up with. From time to time, we’ll run a column like this one, containing several items. If we don’t get …

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