Palm Beach County Theatre Season: 2024/25 Calendar

There’s something about attending a theatrical performance that never fails to be breathtaking.

It’s the energy in the air; the anticipation of the curtain going up and seeing a new scenic world and performers appearing for the ultimate storytelling journey. It’s the sound of the orchestra striking their first chords or actors speaking their first lines. Most of all, it’s the connection that comes from sitting alongside others and bearing witness to the extraordinary art unfolding onstage — and the immediacy of knowing that there will never be another performance exactly like it. While the script may be the same, each performance is alive and distinctive and current.

Venues, too, are exceptional, and The Palm Beaches’ buzzing performing arts scene is a theater lover’s dream. From a dazzling world-class performing arts center to thriving regional stages and a historic Art Deco community playhouse, there is spectacular stage entertainment just waiting to be experienced throughout Florida’s Cultural Capital®.

Here’s a look at some of the extraordinary venues and companies that make up The Palm Beaches’ rich and diverse local theatre scene.

Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

Address: 701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

With nearly 2,200 seats in its majestic Dreyfoos Hall, 300 seats in its Rinker Playhouse and flexible seating in its Helen K. Persson Hall, the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts offers a sweeping large-scale theatrical experience in downtown West Palm Beach. With a vibrant schedule of local, national and international performances, theater fans flock to the nonprofit performing arts center’s annual Kravis On Broadway series, which brings hit Broadway tours to the region. The Kravis Center’s 2024/25 season features Mrs. Doubtfire, The Cher Show, Funny Girl, Peter Pan – The Hit Broadway Musical, The Book of Mormon, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Les Misérables and Mystic Pizza. 

Maltz Jupiter Theatre 

Address: 1001 East Indiantown Road, Jupiter, FL 33477

With business booming following its 2022 expansion, the 659-seat Maltz Jupiter Theatre brings dynamic professional performances to Jupiter’s beachside. The largest regional theatre in the southern half of the U.S., the nonprofit theater debuted The Island Theatre in October: a $5 million 198-seat state-of-the-art second space. With a full schedule of limited engagements, the theater’s primary focus is its celebrated annual season of plays and musicals. Its 2024/25 mainstage season features the North American premiere of Patrick Hamilton’s Deceived, Once, A Musical, the regional premiere of Disney’s Frozen – The Broadway Musical, The Lehman Trilogy and Guys and Dolls. The inaugural season of The Island Theatre features Mark St. Germain’s Becoming Dr. Ruth, Aire: Antigravity, a holiday concert series, Dennis Watkins: The Magical Parlour, a cabaret series and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Palm Beach Dramaworks 

Address: 201 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

With a prime downtown location in the heart of West Palm Beach’s arts and entertainment district, Palm Beach Dramaworks offers theatregoers an invigorating focus on dramatic work and an immersive, up-close-and-personal experience in its 218-seat Don & Ann Brown Theatre. In addition to numerous educational initiatives, the nonprofit regional theater is a working hub for playwrights from across the nation and nurtures their work through lauded initiatives such as the theater’s annual play festival: the Perlberg Festival of New Plays. Currently celebrating its 25^th anniversary, the theater’s 2024/25 season features Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, The Dresser, The Humans, Camping With Henry and Tom and the world premiere of South Florida playwright Gina Montet’s Dangerous Instruments.

The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum 

Address: 7901 North Federal Highway, Boca Raton, FL 33487

Tucked along Federal Highway in eastern Boca Raton, the Wick Theatre and Costume Museum serves as a flourishing arts cornerstone for the region. Operated by Marilynn Wick and her daughter Kimberly, the venue features a 340-seat nonprofit regional theatre and the adjacent Wick Costume Museum, which has undergone a dramatic high-tech transformation. Its stunning venue offers 360-degree virtual video experiences, with an all-new immersive exhibition experience this season: Dressing The Edwardians, Featuring Titanic: The Musical. The venue offers luncheons with live entertainment, with dinner events that feature nationally acclaimed acts on its cabaret stage. The theater’s 2024/25 season features An Evening with Groucho, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, No, No Nanette and My Way.

Lake Worth Playhouse 

Address: 713 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth Beach, Florida 33460

With its gorgeous downtown spot in bohemian Lake Worth Beach, the historic Lake Worth Playhouse serves as a renowned community theater, offering continuous year-round theatrical programming. Located in the former Oakley Theatre — the oldest surviving Art Deco building in Palm Beach County — the nonprofit theater’s initiatives include award-winning plays and musicals on its 300-seat mainstage, area premieres, children’s shows, classes and concerts. The playhouse offers cutting-edge theatrical programming in its black box-style second space, the Stonzek Theatre, which also operates as a movie theatre with a full slate of foreign and independent films. The Lake Worth Playhouse’s 2024/25 season features The Prom, Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Sound of Music, The Play That Goes Wrong and The Producers.

Theatre Lab at Florida Atlantic University  

Address: Theatre Lab FAU, Boca Raton, FL 33431

The professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University, Theatre Lab offers fresh theatrical fare at the intimate 99-seat Heckscher Stage theatre space on FAU’s campus in east Boca Raton. Laser-focused on new work and new audiences, the nonprofit theater offers acclaimed full professional productions, workshops and conversations with leading playwrights and theatre artists. As one of the only theater companies in South Florida exclusively dedicated to new work, the company offers audiences the chance to see regional and world premieres of new American plays before their titles become famous. The company’s 2024/25 season features the family-friendly Southeastern premiere of a new adaptation of The Little Mermaid, the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of The Last Yiddish Speaker and the world premieres of two of us on the run and The Impossible Task of Today.

Delray Beach Playhouse 

Address: 950 NW 9th Street, Delray Beach, Florida 33444

Nestled in a picturesque corner of Lake Ida East Park in one of Delray Beach’s poshest neighborhoods, the Delray Beach Playhouse is a historic community theater that has drawn theatergoers from across the Palm Beaches since its opening in 1947. Today, the 238-seat theater’s fare is more exciting than ever, delivering Broadway plays, musicals, interactive studio theatre, cabarets, nostalgia concerts, children’s theater productions, youth classes and camps. The nonprofit theater’s beloved annual Playhouse Playwrights’ Project each fall showcases work by local up-and-coming playwrights. Its 2024/25 season features The Producers, Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritaville, Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Bridges of Madison County.

Boca Stage at the Delray Beach Playhouse

Address: 950 NW 9th Street, Delray Beach, Florida 33444

A professional theater company that has produced shows at Sol Theatre and The Willow Theatre in Boca Raton, Arts Garage in Delray Beach and locations in Broward County, Boca Stage today performs in the 140-seat black box/cabaret hall at the Delray Beach Playhouse. With a goal of offering new and topical works for theatergoers looking for alternatives to revivals and musicals, the award-winning company (previously known as Primal Forces) focuses on regional premieres and sophisticated, inspiring dramatic work. Led by artistic director Keith Garsson and director Genie Croft, Boca Stage’s 2024/25 season features Sidekicked, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Living on Love and Dry Powder.

Linnea Bailey

Linnea Bailey is an award-winning journalist based in West Palm Beach. Her freelance work can be found in Travel + Leisure, Southern Living, The Palm Beach Post, Florida Weekly, Modern Luxury, art&culture magazine and more. Linnea enjoys traveling, spending time with family and experiencing all the arts and cultural offerings The Palm Beaches have to offer. Find her on Instagram @linneabaileymedia.