With its new, 225-seat space, it could cut that to eight weeks. The theater now has to house people upward of three months. When that happens, the 85-seat theater will nearly triple in size, and reduce the length of its runs. “We actually put forth to our board that in this down housing market we would like to find a three-bedroom house we could own,” she says.ĭramaworks plans to move to new digs this fall, and will open its first show, at the Cuillo Centre for the Arts, to be called The Clematis Street Theatre, on Nov. Beryl says homeownership may be in the theater’s future. “If they have only one house, we need only one car.”ĭonors even kick in, offering space in their homes for designers and such. “One of the biggest challenges is budget,” she says, adding that it makes sense to have actors share one space. … It’s always difficult to find a place.” It can be anywhere from one to three people. “We have several different homes we rent from. “We’re still working on a piecemeal basis,” she says. It doesn’t require me to go in the middle night in my pajamas.”Īt Palm Beach Dramaworks, Managing Director Sue Ellen Beryl says finding housing is one of the theater’s greatest challenges. “And there’s always toilet paper - that’s a big plus. They went out of their way to make it be really nice for us. Speaking of housing, how does Florida Stage like its new digs at the Kravis Center? “The less I have to worry about actors running up and down (Interstate) 95 the better.” “If we’ve got housing, we’re more than happy to have artists in it,” Ms. Having housing nearby has its practical points. “My goal would have been to have sold The Vatican in the next two years and be getting something here.” “I’m starting to work with the city of West Palm Beach to get housing up here,” she says. Barnett says she hopes to find housing near downtown West Palm Beach. “We redid the kitchens, and they have new cabinets and sinks.”Īnd now that the theater has moved to the Kravis Center’s Rinker Playhouse, Ms. “People have been pretty generous with furniture and such, so they look pretty good,” Ms. Matt Loehr (left) and Michael Brian Dunn face off as Billy Child and impresario Zangler in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s “Crazy for You.”Florida Stage tries to make the apartments at The Vatican a comfortable place to call home.
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