Tag Archives: Palm Beach Dramaworks

Silver Palms & Theatre League Remy Recipients Announced

Eighteen Silver Palm Awards honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida during the 2011-2012 season will be presented Dec. 3, as well as two Remy Awards from the South Florida Theatre League.

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Alliance Theatre Lab, Amy London, Caldwell Theatre Company, Christopher Demos-Brown, David Arisco, Empire Stage, GableStage, Gregg Weiner, Iris Acker, Island City Stage, Jim Ballard, Jodie Langel, Joseph Adler, Katherine Amadeo, Ken Clement, Kim Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project, Laura Turnbull, Lindsey Forgey, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Margaret M. Ledford, Mark Della Ventura, Michael Amico, Michael McKeever, Mosaic Theatre, Naked Stage, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Promethean Theatre, Ron Levitt, Stuart Meltzer, The Turn of the Screw, Todd Allen Durkin, Tony Finstrom, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Peek Behind The Curtain: Season Preview 2012-2013

The 2012-2013 season of South Florida theater promises a continued arc toward more new works and thought-provoking titles ripped fresh off the New York stages, sprinkled with enough perennials and confections to remind us that theater is as much about entertainment as catharsis. Check out our season calendars (click here and here) which document about 250 of the even larger list of offerings.

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Alliance Theatre Lab, Broadway Across America, GableStage, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks | Leave a comment

Who’s Playing Who This Season?

Regular South Florida theatergoers will recognize many local stalwarts headlining productions this fall as well as some folks new to these parts – and their parts. Palm Beach Dramaworks revealed much of its casting for the entire season this week, featuring the boldface name of Tony Award nominee and part-time local resident Maureen Anderman in December.

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Angie Radosh, Avi Hoffman, Boca Raton Theatre Guild, Dennis Creaghan, GableStage, Karen Stephens, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Maureen Anderman, Michael McKeever, Palm Beach Dramaworks, The Plaza Theatre, Zoetic Stage | 1 Comment

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.

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Florida Professional Theatres Association, Palm Beach Dramaworks, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Palm Beach Theaters Dominate Carbonell Awards

Joy and uncertainty imbued the 36th annual Carbonell Awards on Monday night, reflecting a period marked by the greatest concentration of theatrical excellence in recent memory, yet also the closure of two companies and tenuous survival of others. The juxtaposition was no more evident than the Caldwell Theatre production, Stuff, earning three awards – four days after the company revealed it had hired a receiver and was postponing its last play of the season because of cash flow problems.

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Andrew Kato, Avi Hoffman, Carbonell Awards, J. Barry Lewis, Jay H. Harris, Julie Kleiner, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Matt Loehr, Michael McKeever, Mosaic Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Tim Bennett | Leave a comment

News Briefs: Carbonell Tickets, Dramaworks’ Summer Show, Kato Gets Promotion, Short Plays Reading, Free Shows

Anyone who doubts the quality of South Florida should buy a ticket (as should everyone else who loves theater) to the 36th Annual Carbonell Awards set for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 2 in the Amaturo Theater at Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Andrew Kato, Carbonell Awards, Mary Becht, Palm Beach Dramaworks, The Fantasticks | Leave a comment

Palm Beach Dramaworks Names New Season With Albee & Friel

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ affinities for Edward Albee and Irish-themed plays are reflected in its upcoming 13th season for 2012-2013.

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged A Raisin in the Sun, Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Exit the King, Lanford Wilson, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Talley's Folly | Leave a comment

Art About Art About Art: Dramaworks’ Pitmen Painters

Art as an ennobling sanctification for both the artist and the observer whose interpretation completes the symbiotic circle is just one of a dozen themes swirling around Palm Beach Dramaworks’ stimulating production of The Pitman Painters.Dramawork’s skilled ensemble of character actors led by director J. Barry Lewis delivers a thought-provoking, if not especially emotionally moving, evening of theater.

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Betsy Graver, Colin McPhillamy, Dennis Creaghan, J. Barry Lewis, Kim Cozort, Palm Beach Dramaworks, The Pitman Painters | Leave a comment

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.

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Arielle Hoffman, Harriet Oser, Laura Turnbull, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Dramaworks’ All My Sons is Triumphant Bow for New Space

Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its new home with a production with the scope and magnitude of All My Sons, Arthur Miller’s first Broadway hit. Directed here by J. Barry Lewis, All My Sons is a family drama of epic proportions, dealing with the responsibility, honor and the ultimate cost of buying into the American Dream.

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged All My Sons, Arthur Miller, Cliff Burgess, Elizabeth Dimon, J. Barry Lewis, Jim Ballard, Kenneth Tigar, Palm Beach Dramaworks | Leave a comment