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Licensing Firm’s Objections to Dramaworks’ Company Causes One-Day Shutdown & Retooling

Palm Beach Dramaworks cancelled its Wednesday performance of the staged concert of Company to adjust to changes required when the New York licensing agent found that characters had been omitted, lines had been cut and the score altered, the theater and licensing company confirmed.

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Phone Rings, Door Chimes, In Comes A Welcome Company Concert At PB Dramaworks

You may long for Palm Beach Dramaworks’ staged concert of Company to have one more week of rehearsal just to let it ripen and deepen, but what’s on stage remains an unassailably well-crafted, well-performed, downright entertaining production of Stephen Sondheim’s Continental Divide of American theater.

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Dramaworks’ Man of La Mancha Is Far More Than Staged Concert

Beautifully sung, passionately acted and staged with as much movement and business as anyone can ask of a limited rehearsal period, Palm Beach Dramawortks’ concert version mines much of the beauty and heart from one of the most glorious scores and emotionally-affecting scripts in American musical theater.

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Theatre At Arts Garage and Dramaworks Stage Concert Musicals This Summer

If this seems to be a summer jammed with play readings across the region (at least 18 set so far and we have more to announce over the next few days), musical theater fans will be penciling in dates on their calendars as well, as early as tomorrow night. Palm Beach Dramaworks and the Theatre at Arts Garage are mounting “concert versions” of musicals – classics in Dramaworks’ case and new works at the Garage in Delray Beach.

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Colin McPhillamy Reads From His Book On Working In China

Colin McPhillamy is currently starring as the addled and doomed King in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ acclaimed of Exit The King, but the surreal nature of Ionesco’s play reportedly pales in comparison to his experiences directing and producing Western theater in …

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Palm Beach Dramaworks Announces 2013-2014 Season

Some 20th Century classics, a 21st Century gem by an acclaimed master, and a 1997 thriller you’ve likely never heard of form the backbone of Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 14th season announced this week: Of Mice and Men, Tryst, Old Times, The Lion in Winter and Dividing The Estate.
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Wendy Wasserstein Programs At Palm Beach Dramaworks

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ current Master Playwrights Series ends in April with an examination of playwright Wendy Wasserstein and a reading of her masterwork,The Heidi Chronicles. Since 2007, the ongoing series has selected three playwrights each year and illuminated their work …

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Added Openings Nights, Dramaworks Hopes To Get Lucky, Blue Man Fills Miami Slot

Quick Hits Two one-actor shows have been added to this month’s calendar in the last few days, one about noted Floridian Zora Neale Hurston and the other about Nazi hunter Simon Weisenthal. Karen Stephens, who did acclaimed work as multiple …

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Dramaworks’ Raisin Starts Slow But Builds To Emotional Crescendo Of Yearning

It starts slow, so slow that you fear it may never get going. But when Palm Beach Dramaworks’ A Raisin in the Sun finally gets rolling, the emotional wallops arrive in every deepening wave of gut-wrenching, heart-rending passion, arguably all the more potent for having emerged from such a quiet, prosaic run up.

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Talkin’ In The Green Room With: Angie Radosh

In this edition of Talkin’ In The Green Room With, Angie Radosh explains why she panics upon seeing reruns of a particular I Love Lucy episode and she reveals the job you’ll never guess that she wishes she could have if she wasn’t an actress.

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