Theater audiences are often intrigued by the intricacies of backstage life, and particularly the larger-than-life personalities who have devoted their careers to an unglamorous existence on the road. So there is little wonder that Ronald Harwood’s 1980 drama The Dresser has been met with success on both sides of The Pond, with several major revivals and a couple of filmed … [Read more...]
Dramaworks brings back ‘The Dresser’ for 25th anniversary season
Twenty-one years ago, Palm Beach Dramaworks was a fledgling troupe trying to gain an audience and critical attention in the county’s crowded cultural scene. As its co-founder and current producing artistic director William Hayes recalls, the company turned a corner towards those goals by mounting Ronald Harwood’s World War II backstage tale, The Dresser, is which Hayes appeared … [Read more...]