Tag Archives: Gary Cadwallader

Opioids, Trafficking, Shoplifting: Theater Tours Warning Middle & High School Students

Three touring plays: prostitution after trafficking, opioid addiction with athletes, the lure of stealing. The audience: students. Palm Beach Dramaworks’ One Humanity Tour is unapologetically frank for rapt youngsters still learning algebra.

Posted on September 18, 2026 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features, General | Tagged Gary Cadwallader, One Humanity Tour, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Rudina Toro, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Three Leaders of Youth Programs Receive Carbonells’ Howard Kleinberg Award

Gary Cadwallader of Palm Beach Dramaworks, Jairo Ontiveros of the Arsht Center and Lori Slade Sessions of the South Florida Cappies will receive the Carbonells’ Howard Kleinberg Award “For Outstanding Contribution to the Health and Development of the Arts in South Florida.”

Posted on September 1, 2026 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Carbonell Awards, Gary Cadwallader, Jairo Ontiveros, Lori Slade Sessions | Leave a comment

The Illusions of Theater Celebrated, Exposed in Dramaworks’ The Dresser

Illusions – those we create for others, those ones we create for ourselves, those we create for survival – are at the heart of Palm Beach Dramaworks’ laudatory yet merciless exposé The Dresser, a portrait swirling around the most illusory element of all: theater.

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Anne Mundell, Brian O'Keefe, Cliff Goulet, Colin McPhillamy, David A. Hyland, Denise Cormier, Dennis Creghan, Elizabeth Dimon, Gary Cadwallader, J. Barry Lewis, Kelly Gibson, Kirk Bookman, Palm Beach Dramaworks, plus returning John Campagnuolo, Ronald Harwood, The Dresser, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Cast of Region’s Top Actors Triumph in 12 Angry Men

A baker’s dozen actors we’ve seen in myriad roles over the past decade or more submerge themselves so deeply in their characters that they are nearly unrecognizable. An unequalled assemblage of A-list talent and accumulated skill merge into a single ensemble in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ vibrant revival of the classic jury room drama 12 Angry Men.

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged 12 Angry Men, Bruce Linser, Cliff Goulet, David Kwiat, Dennis Creaghan, Gary Cadwallader, J. Barry Lewis, Jim Ballard, John Leonard Thompson, Matthew W. Korinko, Michael McKeever, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Rob Donohoe, Tim Altmeyer, Tom Wahl, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Don’t Let Esoteric Details Dissuade You; Let Dramaworks’ Arcadia Swirl Around You

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of Arcadia is Tom Stoppard’s love letter to the miracle of human intelligence’s pursuit of learning — with a gentle jab at the hubris of those who are so taken with that pursuit.

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Arcadia, Brian O'Keefe, Caitlin Cohn, Casey Butler, Cliff Burgess, Dan Leonard, Don Thomas, Gary Cadwallader, J. Barry Lewis, James Andreassi, Margery Lowe, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Peter Simon Hilton, Ryan Zachary Ward, Steve Shapiro, Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Morosco | Leave a comment

An Unusually Apropos 1776 For Our Times At PB Dramaworks

A deeply polarized citizenry, partisans with irreconcilable ideas about the role of government, a stalled deliberative body, confusion, anxiety. Sound familiar? The current political climate has spurred Palm Beach Dramaworks to reinvent that July perennial musical 1776 to highlight the similarities between us and the Founding Fathers in its production July 1-24.

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Clay Cartland, Clive Cholerton, Dennis Creaghan, Gary Cadwallader, Kevin Healy, Laura Hodos, Mallory Newbrough, Matthew Korinko, Michael Collins, Nicholas Richberg, Sandi Stock, Shane R. Tanner, Troy Stanley, William Hayes | Leave a comment