About the Theatre
At Palm Beach Dramaworks, we are committed to enhancing the quality of life through the transformative power of live theatre. Since our founding in 2000, we have distinguished ourselves with stimulating productions of classic, contemporary, and overlooked plays that inspire, engage, challenge, and entertain audiences. We are equally invested in the community, in education, and in nurturing the future of theatre, and as our reputation has grown, so has our reach and outreach. Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional nonprofit theatre company that engages, entertains, and educates audiences with proactive and timeless productions that personally impact each indvidual.The Humans
2/12
Stephen Karam...
The Humans
2/7 - 2/23/2025
Winner of the 2016 Tony Award® for Best Play. Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s ...
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by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 29, 2023
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by A.A. Cristi - January 26, 2023
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Past Shows
Trying
5/24 - 6/9/2024
In 1967, feisty Sarah Schorr, a 25-year-old from rural Canada, goes to work as secretary for 81-year-old Francis Biddle, the patrician former US Attorney General. ...
Death of a Salesman
3/29 - 4/14/2024
This Pulitzer Prize-winning, groundbreaking play changed American theatre in the person of its everyman tragic hero, Willy Loman, a dime a dozen, disappointed, disillusioned, and ...
The Cancellation of Lauren Fein
2/2 - 2/18/2024
Lauren Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a prestigious American university. They live with Dylan, their 16-year-old African American foster son whom ...
The Messenger
12/8 - 12/24/2023
A meditation on the connections between past, present, and future, and on the choice between speaking up and speaking out regardless of the consequences or ...
Lobby Hero
10/13 - 10/29/2023
Four New Yorkers involved in a murder investigation – a slacker security guard in a Manhattan apartment building, his by-the-book boss, a rookie cop and ...
Songs for a New World
6/30 - 7/2/2023
Songs for a New World is a powerful musical masterpiece that examines life, love, and the illumination of self-discovery....
Topdog/Underdog
5/26 - 6/11/2023
This Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of African-American brothers Lincoln and Booth, so named because their father thought it was funny. Spiritually wounded and ...
August: Osage County
3/31 - 4/16/2023
Meet the Weston family, a clan so embittered and embattled that dysfunctional would be a step up. Violet Weston is the pill-popping matriarch whose weary, ...
The Science of Leaving Omaha
2/3 - 2/19/2023
Iris feels trapped in her job at a crematory and wants to get out of Omaha. When Baker breaks into the funeral home to say ...
Twelve Angry Men
12/9 - 12/24/2022
In this timely, timeless, and taut classic, 12 jurors deliberate the fate of a teenager accused of killing his father. Only Juror #8 is uncertain ...
4000 Miles
10/14 - 10/30/2022
At the end of an agonizing cross-country bike trip, 21-year-old Leo shows up unexpectedly at the West Village apartment of his 91-year-old grandmother Vera. Across ...
The Belle of Amherst
5/20 - 5/29/2022
William Luce Palm Beach Dramaworks...
Intimate Apparel
4/1 - 4/17/2022
INTIMATE APPAREL, set in 1905 in turn of the century New York, tells the story of Esther, a lonely, single African-American woman who makes her ...
Almost, Maine
10/15 - 10/31/2021
John Cariani Palm Beach Dramaworks...
The Dresser
5/21 - 6/6/2021
Florence Foster Jenkins was a wealthy socialite who had unwavering confidence in her pitch- perfect voice and was blissfully unaware that her singing was astonishingly ...
Souvenir
4/2 - 4/25/2021
Palm Beach Dramaworks Stephen Temperley...
Souvenir
4/2 - 4/25/2021
Florence Foster Jenkins was a wealthy socialite who had unwavering confidence in her pitch- perfect voice and was blissfully unaware that her singing was astonishingly ...
Intimate Apparel
2/5 - 2/28/2021
In this heartfelt and heartbreaking work set at the turn of the 20th century, Esther is a 35-year-old African-American seamstress of exquisite intimate apparel who ...
The People Downstairs
12/4 - 12/27/2020
For two years and one month, Anne Frank and seven others hid in four small rooms concealed behind a bookcase in the building where her ...
Camping with Henry and Tom
10/9 - 11/1/2020
Warren G. Harding, eager to get away from the press, prying eyes, and the presidency, accepts an invitation to join Henry Ford and Thomas Edison ...
Palm Beach Dramaworks Lynn Nottage...
Sweat
10/19
Palm Beach Dramaworks Lynn Nottage...
Intimate Apparel
10/12
Palm Beach Dramaworks Lynn Nottage...
The Last Five Years
7/8 - 7/19/2020
This modern musical ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up and from break-up to meeting....
Drama(in the)works
6/1 - 6/22/2020
Tickets are FREE, but reservations are REQUIREDJoin us for weekly readings of evolving plays under consideration for the annual New Year/New Plays Festival. Each reading ...
Lobby Hero
5/22 - 6/7/2020
Kenneth Lonergan Palm Beach Dramaworks...
Lobby Hero
5/22 - 6/7/2020
An exploration of racism and sexism that ponders whether its ever honorable to do the wrong thing for the right reason. By the Academy Award-winning ...
The Light in the Piazza
4/3 - 4/26/2020
In this shimmering musical, a trip to Italy leads to an unexpected romance for a beautiful, mentally challenged young woman, whose protective mother must decide ...
Skylight
2/7 - 3/1/2020
Two lovers unexpectedly reunite on a bitterly cold London evening. Can incompatible values and opposing worldviews be bridged if passion remains? Winner of the 1996 ...
Love Letters
2/21 - 2/23/2020
A.R. Gurney Palm Beach Dramaworks...
New Year New Plays Festival
1/10 - 1/12/2020
The Ed Ricci Main Stage: New Year New Plays Festival...
Ordinary Americans
12/6 - 12/29/2019
This commissioned play, based on events in the lives of Gertrude Berg and Philip Loeb, the pioneering stars of televisions groundbreaking sitcom,The Goldbergs, reveals the ...
Ordinary Americans
12/6 - 12/29/2019
This commissioned play, based on events in the lives of Gertrude Berg and Philip Loeb, the pioneering stars of televisions groundbreaking sitcom,The Goldbergs, reveals the ...
A Streetcar Named Desire
10/11 - 11/3/2019
After losing her Mississippi home to creditors, Blanche du Bois relocates to the New Orleans home of her younger sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley ...
A Streetcar Named Desire
10/11 - 11/3/2019
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, illusion and fantasy collide with realism and brutality, as fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois and brutish Stanley Kowalski hurtle toward ...
The Dramaworkshop New Play Festival
9/27 - 9/30/2019
The House of Blue Leaves
5/15 - 6/2/2019
This black comedy takes place in 1965, the day Pope Paul VI visited NYC. It features a zookeeper dreaming of making it big in Hollywood ...
Edgar & Emily
3/29 - 4/22/2018
Joseph McDonough; dir: William Hayes. The Ed Ricci Main Stage:...
The Ed Ricci Main Stage:...
On Golden Pond
1/31 - 2/25/2018
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He ...
The Ed Ricci Main Stage:...
The Ed Ricci Main Stage:...
The Little Foxes
10/18 - 11/12/2017
Around the year 1900, a prosperous Southern family conflict centers around money and involving murder, theft and betrayal. Directed by David Swartz....
Arcadia
3/31 - 4/30/2017
Set in one stately house and two different centuries, this profound, funny, Oliver Award-winning masterpiece explores great mysteries of science and art, and illuminates the ...
Collected Stories
2/3 - 3/5/2017
Whose life is it, anyway? Loyalty vs. creative freedom is the moral issue at the center of this riveting play, in which the protégée of ...
TRU
12/2 - 1/1/2017
Abandoned by the high society friends who recognize themselves as the characters in a published excerpt from his unflattering, unfinished novel, Capote humorously dishes, ruminates ...
The Night of the Iguana
10/14 - 11/13/2016
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s last major play, a defrocked and spiritually bankrupt minister takes refuge at a Mexican hotel and connects with a kind, ...
The Cripple of Inishmaan
5/19 - 6/18/2016
In this darkly comic play, a handicapped young man seeks to escape the cruelty and bleakness that engulf him on the desolate island of Inishmann ...
Satchmo at the Waldorf
5/13 - 6/12/2016
Richmond favorite, Jerold Solomon, portrays Louis Armstrong, the greatest of all jazz trumpeters; Joe Glaser, his manager; and Miles Davis, a rival musician, in this ...
Outside Mullingar
3/25 - 4/24/2016
This is a new romantic comedy from the Pulitzer-, Oscar-, and Tony Award-winner John Patrick Shanley, writer of Doubt and Moonstruck. Anthony and Rosemary are ...
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1/29 - 2/28/2016
Eugene O'Neill; dir: William Hayes....
The History Boys
12/4 - 1/3/2016
Alan Bennett; dir: J. Barry Lewis....
Picnic
10/9 - 11/8/2015
William Inge's beautiful story of love, regret, and the courage to pursue one's dreams in 1950's small-town America....
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
7/10 - 7/19/2015
A Little Night Music was Sondheim's eighth Broadway musical and features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the ...
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
5/13 - 6/14/2015
Lanie Robertson; dir: J. Barry Lewis....
Buried Child
3/25 - 4/26/2015
Buried Child is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national ...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1/28 - 3/1/2015
A tale of seduction set in France among aristocrats before the revolution, this is a classic drama for exploring decadent sexuality, morals, and manipulation played ...
Dramalogue-TBD
1/6
My Old Lady
12/3 - 1/4/2015
Israel Horovitz; dir: William Hayes....
THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
7/17 - 7/27/2014
Amy, a waitress in 1927 San Francisco, is wooed through letters by lonely middle-aged bachelor, Tony Esposito, from his vineyard in California’s Napa Valley. He ...
Dividing the Estate
3/28 - 4/27/2014
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: Horton Foote; dir: William Hayes....
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre:...
Old Times
1/31 - 3/2/2014
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: Harold Pinter; dir: J. Barry Lewis....
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre:...
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre:...
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre:...
The Lion in Winter
12/6 - 1/5/2014
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: James Goldman; dir: William Hayes....
Of Mice and Men
10/11 - 11/10/2013
Hitch a ride to 1930’s California for this journey through the heartland of America. The Fine Arts Center’s 75th anniversary celebration concludes with this production ...
COMPANY
8/7 - 8/18/2013
The clashing sounds and pulsing rhythms of New York City underscore this landmark "concept" show, considered by many to have inaugurated the modern era of ...
Exit the King
3/27 - 4/28/2013
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: - Eugene Ionesco; trans: Neil Armfield, Geoffrey Rush; dir: William Hayes....
A Raisin in the Sun
1/30 - 3/3/2013
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: - Lorraine Hansberry; dir: Seret Scott....
The Maids-Playreading
2/11 - 2/12/2013
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: - Jean Genet....
Jean Genet Overview
2/4 - 2/5/2013
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: - Jean Genet....
Musical Masters Series- Camelot
1/11 - 1/13/2013
- Alan J. Lerner; music: Frederick Loewe; dir: Clive Cholerton....
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: -...
A Delicate Balance
12/5 - 1/6/2013
The Don & Ann Brown Theatre: - Edward Albee; dir: William Hayes....
All My Sons
11/12 - 12/11/2011
Videos
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POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Adrienne Arsht Center (1/9 - 1/26) | |
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Spamilton: An American Parody
Aventura Arts & Cultural Center (1/24 - 1/26) | |
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SAW the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw
Broward Center (1/12 - 1/14) | |
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9to5 The Musical
Lauderhill Performing Arts Center (1/16 - 2/2) | |
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An Evening with Josh Gad: In Gad We Trust
Broward Center (1/22 - 1/22) | |
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Piano Passion From the Studio of Roberta Rust
Lynn University - World Performing Arts Center (1/12 - 1/12) | |
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The Cher Show
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (1/7 - 1/12) | |
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From Brooklyn to Boca
The Studio at Mizner Park (1/9 - 1/19) | |
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Funny Girl
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (1/28 - 2/2) | |
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Les Misérables
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (4/22 - 4/27) | |
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