Imagine you’re running one of the largest, most successful regional theaters in the country. Imagine you’ve planned to implement a massive, multimillion-dollar renovation of your building in stages over several years. Imagine planning your upcoming season around all of that.
Ask Artistic Director William Hayes how he and Palm Beach Dramaworks have dealt with the challenges of a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and he’ll tell you how it’s opened his eyes to new and exciting possibilities for his theater and its audiences.
Travel virtually with Lin-Manuel Miranda as he takes us back to Broadway and Washington Heights exploring the most personal inspirations for Hamilton and In the Heights!
At first glance, Dada may seem like an ordinary house established in a Delray Beach neighborhood, but a closer look will reveal that Dada is anything but ordinary!
COVID-19 was a life-altering event that took us all by surprise. Many people responded by adjusting financial plans, cutting down on everything, and making tough money decisions. Fear took hold for the vast majority, and the instinct to fight, or take flight, permeated all areas of our lives.
Though I have now lost count of the number of times that I have tried to leave the orbit of the theatre, something always seems to drag me back. Ever since I, as a pre-teen, emerged entranced from my very first Broadway show, nothing has ever quite managed to eclipse my passion for it, nor has any supposed change in priorities kept it from taking center stage in my life.
What, exactly, makes a thing theatre? That straightforward question has turned on its head by the COVID-19 pandemic, which made the conventional theatrical experience all but impossible.
“We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.”
~Brutus, Julius Caesar
Navigating the tide of the Pandemic has shaken the theatre world in South Florida, but spirit and strength – and Zoom – continue leading many to follow their dreams and succeed.
