Palm Beach Theatre Newsroom

The 26th Annual Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films, Florida's largest student film competition and award show, proudly announces this year's class of winners. Winners were announced during a dazzling, fun-filled Facebook show and included congratulations and 'shout-outs' from some of television's hottest stars.

The Broward Center for the Performing Arts has launched Arts for Action to lift voices that are vital to the Broward community with an emphasis on how the arts and artists can be a force for change in addressing critical issues of social justice and racial inequality.

On view June 11 through October 3, For the Record features work by Emma Amos, Teresita Fernández, Helen Frankenthaler, Gertrude Käsebier, Käthe Kollwitz, Maria Martinez, Mariko Mori, Alison Saar, Mary Sibande, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.

MNM Theatre Company announces auditions will be held for Grease and Guys and Dolls on June 14th.

In celebration of Pride Month, Palm Beach Dramaworks' Contemporary Voices series will shine the spotlight on playwright Michael McKeever in June. This free, online series features live readings and discussions of plays by a cross-section of some of the finest American playwrights working in theatre today.

Palm Beach Symphony announces the winners of the 2021 Randolph A. Frank Prize, which recognizes their contributions to enriching the quality of the performing arts in Palm Beach County. With prizes totaling $10,000, director Kenneth Kay; Director of Bands/Department Chairman at The Conservatory School Cleve A. Maloon; and Director of Bands at Lake Worth High School Tiffany Cox will be honored in the categories of performing artist, performing arts educator and emerging performing arts educator, respectively.

The Kravis Center is bringing Broadway back to West Palm Beach with the 2021/2022 Kravis On Broadway season. Series subscriptions starting at $268 go on sale Monday, June 7, and payment plans are available for this season of “impossible to resist” Broadway hits.

Just days after the legendary Jimmy Buffet brought safe, fun, live concerts back to Delray Beach, local jazz/pop fans are ready to party again next week as singer-songwriter Martin Sexton shows-off  his unique combination of American rock and blue-eyed soul at Old School Square Pavilion on Thursday, May 27, at 8 pm.

Palm Beach Dramaworks has modified its previously announced schedule and also selected the second of its two world premieres. Bruce Graham’s The Duration, which received an online reading in March as part of The Dramaworkshop’s Drama(in the)works series, was so well received that it’s moving on to a full, mainstage production.

Fatima NeJame, president and chief executive officer of the world-renowned Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC), today announced that its next stellar exhibition—its first public event since temporarily closing last year—will open next week and is being sponsored by the Premium News Picture Wire Service ZUMA Press: The New Normal: COVID Times. Opening May 21 and Running Through August 14.

Renowned pianist Alexander Toradze joins Palm Beach Symphony for the 2021-22 season finale in a concert livestreamed from the Kravis Center on Saturday, May 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Live music is back and local jazz/pop fans are ready to party as singer-songwriter Martin Sexton brings his unique combination of American rock and blue-eyed soul to Old School Square Pavilion on Thursday, May 27, at 8 pm.

Mary Csar, Executive Director of the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum, today announced that the nonprofit organization is hosting a FREE Zoom lecture for local property owners, history buffs and the general public in honor of National Historic Preservation Month (May): The Significance of Historic Preservation, presented by Bonnie Dearborn.

Milagro Center, which provides after-school academic and cultural arts programs to underserved children and teens in Delray Beach, will be hosting its biggest fundraising event of the year – “Showcase Under the Stars” – to overcome severe learning losses from the past year's Covid 19 pandemic.

The Coral Springs Center for the Arts has announced the must-see holiday event of the season that will bring joy and excitement to the theater like never before. Cirque Musica Holiday Spectacular will be showing for one breathtaking performance on Thursday, December 16, 2021.

Lake Worth Playhouse has announced its 2021/22 Black Box Season. Tickets go on sale this summer.

This season the Studio Theatre has curated four stories that unpack what it means to adapt to the changing world and also what to do when adapting isn’t the answer. When is it time to change the world rather than just yourself?

Television personality, author and Food Network star Alton Brown has announced Alton Brown Live – Beyond The Eats will visit the Coral Springs Center for the Arts on February 11, 2022. 

Deborah Silver and Dennis Lambert are today releasing a celebrity-packed remix of the recording with 100 percent of all sales going to The Actors Fund and Jazz Foundation of America.

Palm Beach Opera has announced the planned repertoire for its 2022 Season. For the company’s 60th anniversary season in 2022, Palm Beach Opera will present Bizet’s “Carmen,” Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” and Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” at the Kravis Center beginning in January.

The Coral Springs Center for the Arts will play host to THE PRICE IS RIGHT LIVE stage show on Friday, October 29, at 8 pm.

The new exhibition will present the “Pictures of the Year” in sports, entertainment and news—the visual story of 2020, starting at the beginning of The Lost Year, and running all the way to the final days of Limbo Year.

After surviving major double heart surgery, Palm Beach County's favorite Master Showman Rob Russell is presenting his first two “live, live, live” concerts next week since “dying twice on the operating table” last December in the Cardiac ICU at JFK Medical Center. 

Palm Beach Dramaworks, which announced last week that it would resume live, onstage performances in October for the first time in 20 months, has launched a capital campaign, Take a Deep Breath, to help the company pay for new health and safety practices as recommended by the CDC.

The “Enchanting Evening with Julian Schwarz” is the third in the Masterworks Series and immediately follows the Palm Beach Symphony's 19th Annual Gala: Sustaining the Note.