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PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS

201 Clematis Street
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

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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.


Photos: HEARTBREAK HOTEL at The John W. Engeman Theater


by Stephi Wild - January 22, 2025

The John W. Engeman Theater is now presenting HEARTBREAK HOTEL. Performances began on Thursday, January 16, 2025, and run through Sunday, March 2, 2025. Check out photos here!...

Past Shows

Dangerous Instruments
5/21 - 6/1/2025


Dangerous Instruments, a world premiere by Gina Montet, explores the challenges faced by a single mother, Laura, as she fights for the well-being of her ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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
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 ...

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
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 ...

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 ...

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


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Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (1/13 - 1/13)
THE NOTEBOOK in Miami Metro THE NOTEBOOK
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (4/27 - 5/3)
Tomatoes Tried To Kill Me But Banjos Saved My Life in Miami Metro Tomatoes Tried To Kill Me But Banjos Saved My Life
The Laboratory Theater of Florida (1/28 - 1/29)
The UTEP Dinner Theatre - RENT in Miami Metro The UTEP Dinner Theatre - RENT
UTEP Dinner Theatre (4/9 - 4/9)
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL in Miami Metro A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (4/7 - 4/12)
Come From Away
Maltz Jupiter Theatre (1/6 - 1/25)
COLOR THE WORLD! in Miami Metro COLOR THE WORLD!
Countess De Hoernle Theatre at Spanish River Community H.S. (3/22 - 3/22)
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