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15 Best Bets That We Want To See In The Coming Season

In chronological order, here is a highly subjective, personal list of the shows whose titles or concepts we most want to see this season.

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Dramaworks’ Dramaworkshop May Become Region’s Most Ambitious New Play Program

Palm Beach Dramaworks is embarking on an ambitious new plays development program: Dramaworkshop. Over the next three years, the company is building a framework to nurture nascent scripts through readings, workshops and full developmental productions.

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Most Happy Fella Among Best Sung Musicals Of The Season

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ current staged concert of Frank Loesser’s 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella overflows with a purity of emotions common to even the most ordinary of us, proclaiming them one of the glories of existence to be welcomed, not shied away from.

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Vibrant, Zesty Zorba! Gets Staged Concert At Dramaworks

From the first tinkling of the bouzouki, Palm Beach Dramaworks’ mounting of the rarely-seen Kander and ebb musical Zorba! fairly throbs with life-affirming spirit in direct spite of the vagaries of Fate.

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Veteran Actor William Parry Embraces Zorba In Palm Beach Dramaworks Staged Concert

As he relates the philosophy of his title character in the musical Zorba, William Parry’s acting chops are so second-nature that he probably doesn’t realize that a slight Greek accent is slipping into his warm deep baritone and a brio is filling the small, hot conference room at Palm Beach Dramaworks.

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Tryst Plumbs Complexities Of A Scoundrel And His Prey

A swirling spiral of emotional DNA echoes the emotional dance in The Tryst at Palm Beach Dramaworks. It’s a psychologically-rooted tale of romance, albeit an unconventional definition of romance.

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Another Openin’ Another Show, Another Openin’ Another Show, And Another Openin’ Another….

The snowbirds have gone home, but South Florida theater never seems to go dark these days. This year-round trend has never been clearer than right now with a calendar is jammed with an overwhelming cornucopia of options over the next two or three weeks. Here’s an incomplete overview:

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News Briefs: Ehly’s Baby GirL Takes Big Step, Gheridian Honored, FPTA & PPTOPA Auds

Breathtaking, earth-shattering news of international importance that will change the way you look at your spouses, your children and your lives.

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Newcomers Share Carbonell Bounty With Major Companies

The Timekeepers, a harrowing drama mounted on a tiny stage by a company only in its second season, swept six of its six nominations including best play at the 38th Carbonell Awards Monday night. Those wins, along with a best director award for the fledgling Slow Burn Theatre Company’s musical next to normal, was greeted as a sign that young theaters could make inroads in a program dominated by a handful of venerable and well-funded troupes.

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Heirs Behaving Badly: Dividing The Estate May Be Familiar

Plenty of laughter greets every witticism and absurdity in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of Dividing The Estate, Horton Foote’s acidic depiction of greed, jealousy and family. But through the laughter, you either silently thank God you don’t know these people or you curse fate that they are way too familiar.

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