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These protocols are subject to change. As the situation INTIMATE APPAREL Evening performances are Wednesday and Thursday
evolves, PBD will re-evaluate and share any updates on By Lynn Nottage at 7:30 PM, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, and
its website at palmbeachdramaworks.org and via email. April 1 – 17 select Sundays at 7PM. Matinee performances are
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 2021-2022 SCHEDULE In this heartfelt and heartbreaking work set at the on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2 PM. Post-
THE PEOPLE DOWNSTAIRS (World Premiere) turn of the 20th century, Esther is a 35-year-old African- performance discussions follow Wednesday matinee and
By Michael McKeever American seamstress of exquisite intimate apparel who Sunday evening performances.
December 3 – 19 aches to love and be loved. An unlikely opportunity arises The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart
For two years and one when she enters into a correspondence with a man she’s of downtown West Palm Beach, at 201 Clematis Street.
month, Anne Frank and never met. The play is a lyrical exploration of loneliness For ticket information contact the box office at (561)
seven others hid in four and longing, sweet dreams and bitter truths, determination 514-4042, or visit www.palmbeachdramaworks.org.
small rooms concealed and resiliency.
behind a bookcase in THE BELLE OF AMHERST
the building where her By William Luce Federation to Host Free
father worked. Her diary May 20 – June 5 Hanukkah Celebration at
revealed their ordeal to Based on the life of Emily Dickinson, this one-woman
the world. But what of the show tells the story of the independent, enigmatic, Rosemary Square
people who hid them, got reclusive, witty poet through her letters, verse, and the
them food, and kept them playwright’s rich imagination, interweaving the voices Hundreds of people of all ages
informed? This play explores the complex challenges of friends, family, and acquaintances to create a vivid are expected to celebrate Hanukkah
faced by these brave individuals on their journey of portrait of the artist. with a free, high-energy family-
rebellious morality during the horrors of the Holocaust. friendly celebration at The Square
ALMOST, MAINE on Dec. 5, 3-5 p.m., hosted by Jewish
By John Cariani Federation of Palm Beach County.
January 14 – 30 The event will feature South Florida
Love — old and new, heart-stopping and weak-kneed, Instagram and TikTok dance star
unexpected and unrequited, lost and found — is in the Sean Green, an awesome DJ from
air in the fictional, remote town of Almost, Maine. This Bash Entertainment, plentiful social media-friendly photo
wildly popular play takes place on a Friday night in ops throughout the event including Hanukkah “characters”
winter, and is made up of nine mostly joyful yet poignant and large balloon arch, and a brief candle-lighting
vignettes connected by time and place, the beauty of the ceremony to conclude the event.
aurora borealis, a touch of magic, and a spirit of hope. About PBD Guests can also help give back by assembling toiletry
THE DURATION (World Premiere) Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit kits at an activity station led by Federation’s Jewish
By Bruce Graham theatre company founded in 2000 and located in the Volunteer Center and Women’s Philanthropy; kits will be
February 18 – March 6 heart of downtown West Palm Beach. Each season, the donated to Dignity Grows nonprofit for local women in
Audrey Batten has left the building. And the city. award-winning company produces five mainstage shows distress.
And quite possibly, according to her daughter Emma, her and offers a wide variety of programs for students at the During the Hanukkah event, Green will teach interested
senses. Can two strong women with very different coping theatre, in schools, and online. Committed to fostering the guests of all ages two TikTok dances, conducting two
strategies on the journey from grief to release meet each future of theatre, PBD has become a hub for playwrights sessions that will culminate in the creation of Hanukkah-
other somewhere in the middle — out in the middle of in Florida and around the country to nurture their work themed TikToks for all to view, post and share.
nowhere? A moving, absorbing play about family, loss, through initiatives including Drama (in the) works and the The event is free and open to the public. Rosemary
love . . . and cats. annual New Year/New Plays Festival. PBD is a member Square will also feature its nightly holiday snowfall at
of Theatre Communications Group, Florida Professional 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m.
Theatres Association, and the Cultural Council of Palm
Beach County. www.palmbeachdramaworks.org Local Happenings on page 6

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