Palm Beach Dramaworks' Cabaret Series Presents ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE

Get the new year off to a joyous start by spending some time in the company of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and Frank Loesser. Bruce Linser, whose cabaret shows have been seen locally as well as internationally aboard SilverSea and Crystal Cruises, brings his popular evening of Broadway standards,Almost Like Being in Love, to Palm Beach Dramaworks' Cabaret Series from January 5-7. He will be accompanied by Irwin Solomon at the piano.

Bruce Linser received a 2005 Carbonell Award nomination for his work in Berlin to Broadway at PBD, where he is now manager of The Dramaworkshop. Prior to moving to South Florida, Linser performed Off-Broadway; regionally in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Southern California; and around the country in the national tour of Big River. Locally, he has appeared at Caldwell Theatre Company, FAU Summer Rep, Florida Stage, GableStage, Island City Stage, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, New Theatre, Take Heed Theatre, and most recently at The Wick Theatre as Man in Chair inThe Drowsy Chaperone. Linser is also resident director at MNM Productions, based at the Kravis Center, where he recently directed Little Shop of Horrors. He has been nominated five times for various Carbonell Awards for performing and directing, and has won twice.

Irwin Solomon has been a fixture in the South Florida music community since moving here from New York in 1996. His jazz trio performs concerts throughout Palm Beach and Martin Counties.

Performance times for Linser's shows are Friday through Sundayevening at 8pm, and Saturday and Sunday afternoon at 2pm.Tickets are $30.

The series is sponsored by Kretzer Piano.

For more information, please visit our Box Office or call (561) 514-4042, ext. 2.

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a non-profit, professional theatre and is a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the South Florida Theatre League, Florida Professional Theatres Association, and the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County.

The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, at 201 Clematis Street.

PHOTO: Bruce Linser