Usually among the perks of being a subscriber to a local theater or music group is that you get the announcement of what's happening next season before anyone else--before those of us in the press, even, if the front office manages to keep hush hush.

Not so at the moment at Palm Beach Dramaworks. Work piled up and delayed the mailing, cofounder Sue Ellen Beryl told Friday's opening-night swells at "Benefactors." The announcement is being assembled today and is expected to arrive in mailboxes by the end of the week.

But the schedule was right there in the program for the opening of Michael Frayn's tale of givers vs. takers. When you're done finding out about what's coming up, the review of that show is here in the Sun-Sentinel's arts section.

Once again, the PBD schedule is both unique and interesting. And that begins early, on July 5 with a two-month run of the 2005 Broadway comedy-with-music "Souvenir." It's a portrait of Florence Foster Jenkins, a socialite who fancied herself a singer (an excellent one at that). Instead, she became a celebrity icon of bad taste and lack of talent. Casting is top flight with a pair of Carbonell multiple-award winners, Beth Dimon and Tom Kenaston.

The four-show 2008-09 main stage season beginning in the fall will have two classics, Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" and could very well stand up as the professional regional premiere of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist 1952 tragicomedy "The Chairs." At least, there's no record of one in our digital or print records. If anyone is aware of a previous local production, please drop a line.

Also on tap will be "The Weir," Conor McPherson's 1998 collection of ghost stories told in a bar, and the Florida premiere of Edward Albee's "Peter and Jerry." Albee's work is a pairing of his first play, 1959's "The Zoo Story," with a prequel he wrote for the Hartford Stage in 2004 called "Homelife."

None of that is up on their website as of this writing, but you can leave an email or call (561) 514-4042 to get in on the action early. The company remains in its (very) tiny Banyan Street playhouse space for now, but continues to work with both government and corporate bigwigs on plans to find a larger space in the downtown West Palm Beach area.

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