Dramaworks to Reopen in October With Season of Recent and Brand-New Plays
Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD), which like many local regional theatre companies has been experimenting with online-only programming since the pandemic, has announced its grand reopening for Oct. 15, and with it a full season of plays.
The 2021/2022 season is especially significant for the venerable West Palm Beach company, because it marks its 20th anniversary. Last year, Dramaworks had planned to honor this milestone with a season of revivals from its rich history. That focus has changed moving into the fall, but the lineup of productions will be equally unique: According to the announcement, “in this special season of renewal and new beginnings, PBD has chosen to focus, for the first time in its history, solely on plays written in the 21st century. These are plays that ruminate on universal themes and subjects that seem to have a special urgency at this moment in time: love, longing, politics, race and raci