2025-26 Season

The Crucible, Driving Miss Daisy, The Mountaintop, The Seafarer, and the World Premiere of Vineland Place   

Opening Night October 24

West Palm Beach, FLa. (Tuesday, March 4, 2025) – A diverse and impressive array of four acclaimed plays and one world premiere, each of which, in its own way, speaks with an immediacy to today’s audiences, make up Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 2025-26 season, Producing Artistic Director William Hayes announced today. 

Two of those plays, Katori Hall’s Olivier Award-winning The Mountaintop, which opens PBD's 26th season on October 24, and Arthur Miller’s Tony Award-winning The Crucible, beginning March 27, are inspired by moments in American history that resonate deeply but couldn’t be more different. The Mountaintop is a two-character fantasia on Martin Luther King’s last night on earth. The Crucible, of course, is inspired by the Salem witch trials and will feature one of the largest casts in PBD history. The remainder of the schedule is made up of Conor McPherson’s much-lauded The Seafarer, opening December 12, which is set on Christmas Eve and is so unsentimental and offbeat that it’s the ideal holiday play for PBD; Alfred Uhry’s beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, beginning February 6, which reflects on aging and overcoming prejudice; and the world premiere, on May 15, of Steven Dietz’s Vineland Place, an ingenious mystery that was featured in the company's 2025 Perlberg Festival of New Plays.  



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2025-26 SEASON

THE MOUNTAINTOP

By Katori Hall

October 24-November 9, 2025

It's April 3, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., having just delivered one of his most memorable speeches, returns to the Lorraine Motel and encounters Camae, a beautiful, mysterious maid. She shares some upsetting news that compels him to confront his life and legacy – “warts and all,” as Hall has said. This spellbinding, inspired fantasia on the great civil rights leader’s last night on earth won the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play.

THE SEAFARER

By Conor McPherson

December 12-28, 2025

It’s a devil of a homecoming when Sharky Harkin returns to Dublin on Christmas Eve to look after his belligerent, alcoholic brother Richard, who's recently gone blind. Two of their old boozy friends join them for an evening of drinking and poker, and one of them brings along a newcomer, the portentous Mr. Lockhart, who compels Sharky to confront his past. This suspenseful, dark, and humorous fable is a powerful and ultimately moving tale about second chances and redemption.

DRIVING MISS DAISY     

By Alfred Uhry

February 6-22, 2026

This beloved, heartfelt, Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of an unlikely, life-changing friendship between Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old Jewish widow, and Hoke Coleburn, a Black chauffeur hired by her son Boolie. Set in Georgia, the play unfolds over a 25-year period, beginning in 1948. Daisy is initially hostile to Hoke, but despite seemingly insurmountable differences, their relationship blossoms into one of mutual respect and affection.       

THE CRUCIBLE

By Arthur Miller

March 27-April 12, 2026

A masterful, riveting exploration of the 1692 Salem witch trials, this timeless and timely Tony Award-winning play is also an allegory for McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee’s modern-day witch hunts. Convinced that witches are living among them, Salem is gripped by mass hysteria, paranoia, fear, and retribution, with neighbors turning on and turning in neighbors, and religious fervor turning a blind eye to justice. Miller considered The Crucible his finest play.

VINELAND PLACE (World Premiere)

By Steven Dietz

May 15-31, 2026

For young writer Henry Sanders, it seemed like the perfect job: finishing the long-awaited final book of the novelist who was his hero. Hired by the novelist’s widow, Henry finds himself instead in a rapidly developing mystery. Vineland Place is an intimate thriller, filled with dangerous surprises to the final pages.     

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit theatre company founded in 2000 and located in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach. Each season, the award-winning company produces five shows and offers a wide variety of programs for students at the theatre and in schools. Committed to fostering the future of theatre, PBD has become a hub for playwrights in Florida and around the country to nurture their work through the Perlberg Festival of New Plays. PBD is a member of Theatre Communications Group, Florida Professional Theatres Association, the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, and NNPN. In 2024, PBD was honored as Non-Profit of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches.

Evening performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30pm. Matinee performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2pm. Post-performance discussions follow Wednesday and Thursday matinees. There are a few differences in the schedule for The Seafarer due to the Christmas holiday. Please check palmbeachdramaworks.org for dates.

Subscription packages are available for four or five plays. Single tickets go on sale on July 22. Individual tickets for all performances are $95, except for opening night of each production ($115) and previews ($75). Student tickets are available for $15 with a valid K-12 or university/college ID, and anyone under 40 pays $40 (no additional fees) with a photo ID. Tickets for educators and active military are half price with proper ID (other restrictions apply). Group rates are also available. Tickets can be purchased through the box office, in person or by phone (561.514.4042 ext 2), and online 24 hours a day at palmbeachdramaworks.org.     

The Don & Ann Brown Theatre is located in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, at 201 Clematis Street.

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