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Palm Beach Dramaworks Announces

Fifth Annual New Year/New audiences sharing the same space. There’s an energy and a sense Dangerous Instruments
of community that you just can’t get virtually. Actors feed off
By Gina Montet
Plays Festival Jan. 6 To 8, 2023 audiences, and playwrights get a better sense of what’s working Saturday, Jan. 7 at 7 p.m.
well and what might need some polishing by listening both to Laura, a young single mother, would do anything for her
Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) will ring in 2023 with the actors and to the audience response.” gifted son, Daniel. Scholarships to elite private schools are the
one of its most popular events, the New Year/New Plays Tickets for the festival are on sale now, and can be purchased golden ticket for her little genius, but when Daniel’s brilliant mind
Festival, which runs from Jan. 6 to 8 and features readings of online at www.tickets.palmbeachdramaworks.org, or by calling becomes violent, she finds herself battling a broken system. Laura
five fascinating plays that are still in development. The fifth the box office at (561) 514-4042, Ext. 2. Tickets are $20 per must confront a mother’s darkest fears as she desperately races
annual festival marks the first time since 2020 that the program play, or $75 for all five plays by using the code FESTIVAL. to help her son before he becomes the next horrifying headline.
will be presented live, onstage, in front of an audience at the Although tickets for the Playwrights Forum are free, reservations Crossing Ebenezer Creek
Don & Ann Brown Theatre. Hosted by The Dramaworkshop, are required. By Bill Cain
the festival provides an invaluable opportunity for playwrights The New Year/New Plays Festival is sponsored by the Maurer Sunday, Jan. 8 at 3 p.m.
to hear their words performed by gifted professionals Family Foundation. Diane and Mark Perlberg are the executive Set in 1865 on the eve of President Lincoln’s assassination and
and to receive feedback from viewers. The goal of The producers, Marsha and Stephen Rabb are the producers, and in 1894 during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, the play explores
Dramaworkshop in general, and the festival in particular, is Penny Bank and Sandra and Bernie Meyer are the associate the ideas of legacy, accountability, and how American history was
to cultivate significant new work for PBD’s mainstage and producers. written – and continues to repeat itself – through man’s obsession
theatres across the country. Since the 2017/18 season, PBD The Plays with money, power, and who controls the narrative.
has produced five world premieres that were nurtured in The The Messenger The Playwrights
Dramaworkshop. Carter W. Lewis’ The Science of Leaving By Jenny Connell Davis Jenny Connell Davis plays include Matinicus: A Lighthouse
Omaha, to be performed this season, will be the sixth. Friday, Jan. 6 at 3 p.m. Play, Anton Chekhov is a Tasty Snack, Goddess of Mercy, and
The plays chosen for the 2023 festival are The Messenger by Inspired by the life of Hungarian Holocaust survivor Georgia Scientific Method. Her work has been produced or developed at
Jenny Connell Davis (3 p.m., Friday, Jan. 6); The Virgin Queen Gabor, this play in four monologues is a meditation on how our Chance Theater, the O’Neill, the Playwrights’ Center, Icicle Creek
Entertains Her Fool by Michael Hollinger (7 p.m., Friday, Jan. stories can protect or expose us, and on the connections between Theatre Festival, ACT Seattle, Asolo Repertory Theatre, New
6); The Islanders by Carey Crim (3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 7); past, present, and future. York Stage and Film, The Gift Theatre, and Rivendell Theatre
Dangerous Instruments by Gina Montet (7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool Ensemble, among others. She currently has film and TV projects
7); and Crossing Ebenezer Creek, previously known as Untitled By Michael Hollinger in development with Amazon, Iconoclast/Anonymous Content,
Lincoln Play to Drama (in the) works’ audiences, by Bill Cain (3 Friday, Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. and Baobab Studios. Jenny has an MFA from UT Austin, is a
p.m., Sunday, Jan. 8). There will also be a Playwrights Forum at Adalia, Virgin Queen of the Realm and Mother of Us All, former member of Ars Nova’s Play Group, and an affiliated
1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 7, which is free with a ticket to any play. is dying, and must name her successor before it’s too late. But writer with the Playwrights’ Center. She is a proud member of
The Messenger was commissioned by Producing Artistic she’d rather spend her final hours enjoying the distractions of her Chicago’s Gift Theatre Company and ScriptWorks in Central
Director William Hayes, who was introduced to Davis’ work Fool. Meanwhile, her niece and nephew have both assembled Texas, and an inaugural member of the Hyde Park Playwrights
a few years back when her play, As I See It, was submitted to armies to storm the castle, each hoping to grab the crown as it Group in Austin, where she currently resides.
The Dramaworkshop and was subsequently part of the 2020 falls. Clearly, the clock is ticking – what’s a woman to do? Michael Hollinger plays include Under the Skin, Opus,
festival. The four other plays were first presented last season by The Islanders Ghost-Writer, Red Herring, Incorruptible, An Empty Plate
PBD’s Drama (in the) works series, which features readings of By Carey Crim in the Café Du Grand Boeuf, and the musical TouchTones
plays in process. The most promising readings are selected for Saturday, Jan. 7 at 3 p.m. (with composer Robert Maggio), all of which premiered at
the festival by Hayes and The Dramaworkshop Manager Bruce Anna lives a small and quiet life on Beaver Island, Mich. Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company and have variously
Linser, who take audience feedback, among other factors, into She has few friends and likes it that way. Her carefully been produced around the U.S., in New York City, and abroad
account. All five plays continue to develop under the auspices controlled world is turned upside-down by the arrival of a (London, Paris, Tokyo, Athens, Poland, and Slovenia). Plays
of The Dramaworkshop leading up to the festival. charming but secretive new neighbor, Dutch. For different premiered elsewhere include Mr. Dickens’ Hat at Chicago’s
“We are thrilled that the festival is returning to the theatre,” reasons, Dutch and Anna have each been thrown away Northlight Theatre, Hope and Gravity at Pittsburgh’s City
said Linser. “Although the Zoom presentations the past two by mainstream society. Can their connection survive the
years were quite effective, there is nothing like artists and revelations that must inevitably come with true intimacy? Palm Beach Dramaworks Announces on page 12

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