With the final performance of Same Time, Next Year on Sunday, May 15, the Delray Beach Playhouse has wrapped up its roster of plays for 2021-22, completing its 75th anniversary season.
Before the curtain dropped for the last time on that comic, Bernard Slade production, officials at the DPB had announced the performance schedule for the 76th season – a “varied, eclectic and thoroughly entertaining” collection of shows and concerts, said Delray Beach Playhouse Executive Director Kevin Barrett.
“Our lineup is jam-packed with new and exciting shows,” said Barrett, “And there will be something for everyone to enjoy.”
As they did last year, main stage show planners “made the strategic decision to kick off our season later in the year – in December, rather than October. It will give our patrons time to become more comfortable returning to the theatre.”
The executive director offered the following assessment of Season 76: “The DPB has a varied, eclectic, and thoroughly entertaining lineup planned for its 2022-2023 season. From musicals to musical comedy, to a myriad of musical memories, not to mention a suspenseful psychological thriller, a classic Neil Simon play and a British backstage farce.”
The season will begin with Villainous Company (Dec. 2-18),which Barrett called “a suspense-filled thriller by Victor Cahn.” The playhouse’s next production, Something’s Afoot, A Musical Mystery by James McDonald, David Vos and Robert Gerlach, will be presented Jan. 27 – Feb. 12, 2023.
That show will be followed by Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite (March 17 – April 2, 2023) and, in the end, Noises Off, a farcical comedy by Michael Frayn, will wrap up the season with a production that runs from April 28 – May 14, 2023.
The playhouses’ ever-popular Musical Memories Series will feature a celebration of The Songs of Jule Styne; New York, New York – Broadway Celebrates the Big Apple; From Showboat to Hamilton – Celebrating Broadway’s Landmark Musicals; A Celebration of Fiddler on the Roof; Making Whoopee; Ziegfeld’s “Clown Royal” and Celebrating the Music of Eddie Cantor.
Randolph DelLago, artistic director at the Delray Beach Playhouse.
Three one-of-a-kind concerts are also planned: This Land is Your Land – The Life and Song of Woody Guthrie; Remembering Woodstock – Songs from a Seminal Event in an Upstate Pasture and Bleeker Street and Beyond: The Greenwich Village Music Scene of the 60s.
The schedule for special musical shows follows:
Delray Beach Playhouse Musical Memories Series:
Dec.12 – 20, 2022 Celebrating the Songs of Jule Styne
Feb. 6 – 14, 2023 New York, New York – Broadway Celebrates the Big Apple
March 27 – April 4, 2023 From Showboat to Hamilton – Celebrating Broadway’s Landmark Musicals
May 8 – 16, 2023 Celebrating Fiddler on the Roof
June 5 – 13, 2023 Making Whoopie – Ziegfeld’s “Clown Royal” – Celebrating Eddie Cantor
Delray Beach Playhouse Individual Concerts:
Dec. 7, 2022 This Land is Your Land: The Life and Song of Woody Guthrie
Feb. 1, 2023 Remembering Woodstock: Songs from a Seminal Event in an Upstate Pasture
March 22, 2023 Bleeker Street and Beyond: The Greenwich Village Music Scene of the 60s.
Barrett noted that the playhouse, which first opened its doors in 1947, “has become a beloved fixture in the South Florida theatrical community, and boasts large, strong, and supportive membership composed of year-round and seasonal patrons, an excellent roster of local talent both backstage and front of house, and an enthusiastic and committed team of volunteers.”
Subscriptions are on sale now, and group rates are available for the main stage productions, as well as the Musical Memories concerts. Single tickets for productions and concerts will be $42 and will be on sale in August and September.
For more information about The Delray Beach Playhouse visit delraybeachplayhouse.com, or contact Carol Kassie at carol@carolkassie.com at 561-445-9244.
The Delray Beach Playhouse is located at 950 NW 9th Street, in Delray Beach, 33444. The phone number for the box office is 561-272-1281.
A Massachusetts native who moved to Florida in 2000, he is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, with honors degrees in English and Journalism. In New England, he worked for the Attleboro (Mass.) Sun Chronicle and the Pawtucket (R.I.) Times, the latter for 28 years. After moving to Florida, he worked as a copy editor at the Palm Beach Daily News, and, in 2001, became a reporter and later, city editor, at the Boca
Raton News where he worked for eight years.
