Dear Friend,

It’s a busy time of year for our box office personnel, who are hard at work tending to subscription renewals. Many of you resubscribed to your previous series by the July 16 deadline, ensuring that you’ll retain the same seats as before. If we have not yet received your renewal, we’ll be calling you in the coming days; some of you have already heard from us. We realize that people sometimes miss deadlines because they’re out of town or simply forget, so we want to check in with you to give you one more opportunity to keep your same seats. We also want to remind everyone that we’re discontinuing our Loyalty program, but that you have until August 31 to retain the same subscription pricing/loyalty levels as the 2019-2020 season. Beginning September 1, only one level of four-play and five-play subscription prices will be offered.

One more reminder: On August 4, one week from today, the Master Playwrights Series is back at 7:30pm with a Zoom presentation on August Wilson. Mark Perlberg hosts, and will be joined by actors Karen Stephens, Russell Jordan, and Jovon Jacobs, who will read scenes from some of Wilson’s plays. You can reserve your free tickets at www.palmbeachdramaworks.org or by calling the box office at 561.514.4042, x2. Perlberg is the executive producer of the Master Playwrights Series. Louise and Barry Snyder are the sponsors of PBDonline.   

And now, travel back with us once more, this time just a few short years, to the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 seasons. The range of plays is impressive, if we do say so ourselves. Equally notable is the number of wonderful performances these works engendered. We hope the photos bring back some great memories. 
2015-2016
Picnic
by William Inge 
From left: Maren Searle, Merlin Huff, Patti Gardner, Elizabeth Dimon, Kelly Gibson, Taylor Miller, Michael McKeever, and Margery Lowe
The History Boys
by Alan Bennett
Rob Donohoe and Colin McPhillamy
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
by Eugene O’Neill
From left: Michael Stewart Allan, John Leonard
Thompson, Dennis Creaghan, and Maureen Anderman
Outside Mullingar
by John Patrick Shanley
From left: Alex Wipf, Patricia Kilgarriff, and Kathy McCafferty
Satchmo at the Waldorf
by Terry Teachout
Barry Shabaka Henley
1776
Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards
Book by Peter Stone
Center: Gary Cadwallader and Nicholas Richberg Behind them, left to right: Troy J. Stanley, Michael Collins, and Allan Baker
2016-2017
The Night of the Iguana
by Tennessee Williams
Kim Cozort Kay and Tim Altmeyer
Tru
by Jay Presson Allen
Rob Donohoe
Collected Stories
by Donald Margulies
Keira Keeley and Anne-Marie Cusson 
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Ryan Zachary Ward and Caitlin Cohn
 

 
The Cripple of Inishmann
by Martin McDonagh



Left to right: Colin McPhillamy, Adam Petherbridge, and Elizabeth Dimon 
Sweeney Todd
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Shane R. Tanner
 
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We look forward to seeing you at the theatre. 
An informative and entertaining program that provides in-depth looks at the lives and works of major playwrights and includes scenes from their plays read by professional actors. 
AUGUST WILSON
AUGUST 4 AT 7:30PM
August Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990), two of 10 works that are part of his monumental Century Cycle, with each play exploring the Black experience in a different decade of the twentieth century. The rest of the cycle is made up of Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Seven Guitars, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. Wilson was born in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, and with the exception of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which is set in Chicago, all the plays in the cycle take place in his hometown. A lyric poet and consummate storyteller, Wilson was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton in 1999. On October 16, 2005, just two weeks after the playwright’s death at the age of 60, Broadway’s Virginia Theatre was renamed the August Wilson Theatre. The presentation by Mark Perlberg will conclude with a Q&A via zoom.