Sunday, October 10, 2010

Palm Beach Theater Guild shows its casual side


By Shannon Donnelly
Daily News Society Editor

NANTUCKET — Paula and Bob Butler’s summer home on the Nantucket bluffs was the setting for a casual cocktail buffet honoring the Palm Beach Theater Guild.

A ‘casual’ cocktail buffet?

This is Nantucket. What other kind is there?

The event, co-chosted by Patrick Henry Flynn, Peter Karlson and Danielle deBenedictis, Stephania Conrad, Phil Byrne, Chris and Jane Deering, Sheila Palandjian and Patrick Warner Flynn, took place July 29.

The reception welcomed members of the Theater Guild who were visting Nantucket, and also celebrated the publication of Memories for the Future: A History of Palm Beach’s Royal Poinciana Playhouse.

Guests included Franklyn DeMarco and Betsy Frye, Bob Crowe, J and Nancy Parker, Phil Byrne, Susanne MacDonald, Betsy and Bill Delphos, Jean and Bill Koeppell, Charles Revson and his wife, and Orty and Maureen Woodward.