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Hats Off Nominations Announced

8/27/2025

 
PictureCultural Council - 2024 Awards
(Capehart Photography)
(Press Release) ​(West Palm Beach, Fla.) Wednesday, August 27, 2025-Nonprofits First proudly announces an outstanding number of nominations to honor the local nonprofit sector in Palm Beach County during the 9th Annual Hats Off Nonprofit Awards on Thursday, October 9th, at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in the Cohen Pavilion.



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Kravis Center Announces 2025/26 Season

8/27/2025

 
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(Press Release) West Palm Beach, FL (August 27, 2025) -- The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts announces its exhilarating On Stage WOW! 2025-2026 season. Palm Beach County’s #1 entertainment venue offers an ovation-worthy lineup of award-winning shows, internationally acclaimed artists and powerful performances to appeal to audiences of all ages. In addition to performances in the 2,195-seat Alexander W. Dreyfoos Concert Hall, the Kravis Center will present a diverse array of theatre, music and dance in the intimate 300-seat Marshall E. Rinker, Sr. Playhouse and Helen K. Persson Hall.


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PBTV: Golf in the Palm Beaches

8/26/2025

 

September is National Recovery Month

8/26/2025

 
PictureCarrie Carlton
(Press Release) ​West Palm Beach, FL (August 26, 2025) – Clinical experts at West Palm Beach–based Beachway Therapy Center are offering guidance during National Recovery Month to help educate the community on how to support loved ones facing addiction and mental health challenges.
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“Overcoming addiction requires more than willpower - it demands compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to the individual,” says Carrie Carlton, MSW, LPC, LCSW, QS, CCTP, and Vice President of Clinical Services at Beachway Therapy Center. “Sustainable recovery is achieved by healing the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—through proven clinical practices and holistic support.”


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'Wiz,' 'Cirque' Tickets Going on Sale

8/26/2025

 
PictureThe WIZ (Kravis Center)
(Press Release) West Palm Beach, FL (August 26, 2025) — The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts announces that tickets for THE WIZ and additional performances of ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… BY CIRQUE DU SOLEIL will go on sale Friday, August 29 at 10 a.m. online and at 12 p.m. at the Box Office or by calling 561.832.7469. 







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Ballet Palm Beach Sets 2025/26 Season

8/26/2025

 
Picture Lily Loveland as Giselle (Janine Harris Photo)
(Press Release) (Palm Beach Gardens, FL – August 26, 2025) Colleen Smith, Founding Artistic and Executive Director of Ballet Palm Beach announces a spectacular season of original and iconic productions during its 2025-2026 season.
 
The enchantment begins with Grimm’s Fairy Tale leaping from the page to the stage during Snow White and Other Works on October 24 - 26. Then, the holiday fun begins with the timeless tradition of The Nutcracker on December 5 – 7. Next, experience a story for the ages with the original production of Queen Esther March 6 – 8. Back by popular demand, April heats up with the fiery drama of Carmen on April 10 – 11. The season concludes with the mainstage masterpiece, Giselle on May 16.


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Carbonell Award Recipient Announced

8/26/2025

 
PictureBeverly Blanchette (Photo: Sarah Spiegel)
(Press Release) (South Florida – August 26, 2025) Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors, today announced the recipient of the fifth of seven prestigious Special Awards that will be presented at the Carbonell Awards Ceremony on Monday, November 17, at 7:30 pm at FAU’s University Theatre in Boca Raton 33431.
 
“While we will be honoring in 20 competitive categories specific theatre performances, production elements, and shows presented between September 2024 and August 2025, the Carbonell board of directors has unanimously voted to also bestow the following Special Award,” said Schweikhart.


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Palm Beach Symphony Accepting Nominations

8/26/2025

 
PictureL-R: Thomas "Aidan" Gardner, Majorie Bliss
and Alex Rodriguez
(Capehart Photography)
(Press Release) West Palm Beach, Florida (August 26, 2025) – Nominations are now open for Palm Beach Symphony’s annual Lisa Bruna B-Major Award for high school seniors and the Instrumental Music Teacher of the Year Award for dedicated music teachers in Palm Beach County.
 
“I am so excited to see the submissions we receive every year for both awards. The level of talent is so impressive,” said Palm Beach Symphony CEO David McClymont. “The young musicians who apply for the Lisa Bruna B-Major Award are our present and future. Providing students with instruments to further pursue musical studies is extremely important so they can follow their dreams and reach their full potential. The instrumental music teachers are the backbone who make this all possible, passing their knowledge on to the next generation of musicians, and they deserve to be celebrated for their dedication.”


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Shakespeare Fest Sets Three-Show Season

8/25/2025

 
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(Press Release) Jupiter, Florida (August 25, 2025) The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival, (PBSF) the County’s longest-running professional theater company, announces its upcoming 2025 - 2026 season which features a collaboration with Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBAU) and a Shakespeare by the Sea original premiere. The season line-up includes the PBAU collaboration production of Romeo & Juliet on October 2 – 4 at the Fern Street Theater; the 6th Annual Shakespeare by the Palms presentation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth on February 13 - 16 at its new location in the Veterans Park Amphitheater in Royal Palm Beach, and the 36th Anniversary Shakespeare by the Sea premiere of the original production, Falstaff: Shakespeare’s Greatest Invention at the Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park, Jupiter from July 9 - 19.


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Norton to Present Leslie Hewitt Exhibit

8/25/2025

 
PictureFrom "Leslie Hewitt: Achromatic Scales"
(Courtesy of the Norton Museum)
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA (August 6, 2025) — The Norton Museum of Art will present Leslie Hewitt: Achromatic Scales, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by artist Leslie Hewitt (born 1977, New York, lives and works in Houston). This exhibition brings together selections from three ongoing series — Riffs on Real Time, Riffs on Real Time with Ground, and Chromatic Grounds — that explore the complex layering of memory, poetics, and free association through photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Leslie Hewitt: Achromatic Scales will be on view September 13, 2025, through February 22, 2026.


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      • Crater Lake National Park
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      • The Kerrville Folk Festival
      • Building Hope in the Rio Grande Valley
      • Yellowstone Camping Tales
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      • Unknown Yellowstone - Summit Lake
      • Unknown Yellowstone - Shoshone Lake
      • Unknown Yellowstone - Grizzly Lake
      • Unknown Yellowstone - Riddle Lake
      • Unknown Yellowstone - Pelican Cone
      • Unknown Yellowstone - Mt. Washburn
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