American Theatre

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Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 2024-25 Season

FRONT & CENTER • WINTER 25 New, Now, Next VOL 41, NO. 02

PEOPLE TO WATCH

Unfinished BUSINESS • Theatre students, taught to do the job, deserve to learn more about how to get the job.

Teaching THE MOMENT • A roundtable with educators about the challenges of the day and preparing for what’s ahead.

Taken to SCHOOL • At high school theatre programs big and small, well funded and not, educators are stoking excitement and building a future, both for their students and for the art form.

FEUD for Thought • What making a play out of a land dispute in my own hometown taught me about documentary theatre.

Do You Hear the PEOPLE SING? • In staging a revolution and its confusing aftermath, the musical ‘We Live in Cairo’ also sought to dramatize the everyday life of Arabs.

Best Laid PLANS • What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow.

Eureka Day • The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals. In weekly meetings, Eureka Day’s five board members develop and update policy to preserve this culture of inclusivity, reaching decisions only by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka Day community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?

JONATHAN SPECTOR: WHAT THE PLAY WANTS • An interview with the playwright

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THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP’S MISSION IS TO… • lead for a just and thriving theatre ecology

From the Archives • CAN YOU NAME THE PERFORMERS AND THE SHOWS?