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Dramaworks, Theatre Lab & Gulfshore Explore Work You’ve Never Seen

Area theater-goers are about to encounter a wide spectrum of new theatrical work as three South Florida festivals present plays in the early stages of development.
The region’s unofficial new play festival season kicks off with Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Perlberg Festival, Gulfshore Playhouse Next Wave Festival, Theatre Lab’s annual Owl New Play Festival.

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ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART ONE

On the Wheels of a Dream: Part One of an in-depth three-part series about the future of Florida theater. As the curtain cautiously rises again this year in South Florida, profound questions are dogging about what the next three seasons will provide as local theaters grapple with rising costs, a mercurial talent pool, fluctuating funding and deciding how far to nudge the edge of the envelope.

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Uneven Difficult Production of The Seafarer at Dramaworks

Spending an evening with the Irish men at Palm Beach Dramaworks could try the patience of any sober audience member. On top of that, the show takes a long time to pick up steam and reveal the flashes of brilliance that might make the wait worthwhile.

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Dramaworks and GableStage Add New Executives

GableStage and Palm Beach Dramaworks are entering the new season with new executives added to the existing management.

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Profile: Dramaworks’ 25 Years Striving For Quality, Connecting and Staying in the Black

The best theater profoundly affects audience & the artists simultaneously. Over 25 years, Palm Beach Dramaworks has accrued acclaim from audiences & donors for quality, respect in social-political fundraising corridors, and business standards keeping them in the black. Tracking their growth provides lessons for fledgling and experienced companies.

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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.

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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.

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Dissolving Family in Dramaworks’ The Humans Is Clearer Than Ever

This third time seeing Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning The Humans again becomes clearer with Palm Beach Dramaworks’ fine depiction of a normal family deteriorating over Thanksgiving dinner from a close bonded unit into a shattered dissolving group barely—but still – holding together.

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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.

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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.

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