News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS


West Palm Beach, FL

Website

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.
Trying
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. ...

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 ...


RELATED STORIES

Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-Winning DEATH OF A SALESMAN Extended At Palm Beach Dramaworks


by A.A. Cristi - April 04, 2024

Discover the latest news from Palm Beach Dramaworks as they extend their popular show due to high demand. Stay updated with BroadwayWorld's entertainment news....

Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN to Open This Month at Palm Beach Dramaworks


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 15, 2024

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is set to open at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets....

Winners of The Seventh Annual Young Playwrights 10-Minute Play Contest Read at Palm Beach Dramaworks


by Blair Ingenthron - March 09, 2024

One of Palm Beach Dramaworks' most inspiring evenings, the presentation of the winning plays of the Young Playwrights 10-Minute Play Contest (YPC), took place at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre on Wednesday, February 28...

DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTS World Premiere & More Set for Palm Beach Dramaworks 25th Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 07, 2024

Palm Beach Dramaworks will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2024-25 with a  roster of plays that epitomize its commitment to “Theatre to Think About.” Learn about full programming and see how to purchase tickets....

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Miami Metro Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Miami Metro Awards; SPRING AWAKENING, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Brévo Theatre & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 18, 2023

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Awards; SPRING AWAKENING, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Brévo Theatre & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 11, 2023

It's the final 3 weeks and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 11th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Awards December 5th Standings; SPRING AWAKENING Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 05, 2023

It's December, and the first standings of the month have been announced as of Tuesday, December 5th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Awards; THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Leads Best Play!


by BWW Awards - November 27, 2023

Happy Holidays! The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 27th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Palm Beach Dramaworks to Present THE PERLBERG FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 25, 2023

Palm Beach Dramaworks presents the Perlberg Festival of New Plays, featuring a lineup of exciting new works. Don't miss this opportunity to experience innovative and thought-provoking theater....

Past Shows

Death of a Salesman
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


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
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
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
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
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
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


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
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
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
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
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 ...

Souvenir
4/2 - 4/25/2021


Palm Beach Dramaworks Stephen Temperley...

Intimate Apparel
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
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
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...


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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 ...


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 ...


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 ...

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....


- 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


Mamma Mia! in Miami Metro Mamma Mia!
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts [Dreyfoos Hall] (6/25 - 6/30)
Xanadu in Miami Metro Xanadu
Shuler Stage (5/17 - 5/26)
Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles in Miami Metro Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts [Dreyfoos Hall] (5/1 - 5/1)
Hundred Days in Miami Metro Hundred Days
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre (7/17 - 8/11)
A Rock Sails By in Miami Metro A Rock Sails By
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre (5/15 - 6/9)
Arthur & Friends Make a Musical! in Miami Metro Arthur & Friends Make a Musical!
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre (4/6 - 4/27)
SWEET 15 ¡QUE QUINCEAÑERA! – A SPANGLISH INTERACTIVE COMEDY EXPERIENCE in Miami Metro SWEET 15 ¡QUE QUINCEAÑERA! – A SPANGLISH INTERACTIVE COMEDY EXPERIENCE
Renaissance at the Gables (4/4 - 4/28)
VIEW SHOWS  ADD A SHOW   FIND A JOB

Recommended For You