Palm Beach County's oldest working theater company in one of its oldest rooms: the Playhouse, incorporated in 1953, bought the 1924 Oakley Theatre building on Lake Avenue in 1975 and still fills it with musicals, dramas, comedies and area premieres. It is community theater with real heart — an intimate house, a downtown marquee, and dinner a block away in either direction. A show here followed by a walk down Lake Avenue is this city's definitive date night.
📍 713 Lake Ave, Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460
Box office: (561) 586-6410, open Tue–Fri 10 AM–4 PM per the Playhouse. Ticket prices are set per production and published on the Playhouse's site and season materials — check the current show there rather than trusting any guide's number. The season runs year-round, including a Black Box series in the smaller Stonzek space.
Inside the same historic building, the Stonzek is an intimate black-box cinema screening independent and foreign films daily — the city's second Playhouse date, and a different one: smaller room, art-house programming, and a film you will actually talk about over dinner afterward. It is also the standing rainy-night answer downtown, a two-minute walk from the Lake Avenue restaurants.
📍 713 Lake Ave, Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460 — inside the Lake Worth Playhouse
Films and showtimes rotate constantly — the Playhouse's site carries the current Stonzek schedule. Tickets are priced per screening on the Playhouse's site.
The before-and-after for every downtown date: two parallel avenues of galleries, murals, bookshops, cafés and independent restaurants in the city's Old Town commercial district, with the Playhouse marquee in the middle of it. Browse the galleries while they are open, pick dinner by walking past the menus, and let the street's unpolished, artist-run feel set the tone — this is the anti-Worth-Avenue, and a lot of couples prefer it.
📍 Lake Ave & Lucerne Ave, downtown Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460Free — Public streets — the spending is whatever you order
Downtown pairs with the Playhouse by design — everything in this stroll is within a few blocks of 713 Lake Ave. Gallery hours vary by shop; the evening version leans on dinner and the marquee instead.
Palm Beach County's 118-acre lagoon restoration, right on the downtown shoreline: mangrove islands and oyster reefs built to bring the Lake Worth Lagoon back to life, with a boardwalk, a fishing pier, a floating dock and a kayak launch. Bring binoculars — the county lists American oystercatchers, snook, green sea turtles and manatees among the species seen here, though sightings are a bonus, never a promise. As a date it is a quiet boardwalk walk at golden hour, or a bring-your-own-kayak paddle around the islands together.
📍 100 N Golfview Rd, Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460Free — No entry fee in the county sources used — open sunrise to sunset
Parking is the catch, per the county: only three designated spots sit on N Golfview Road for the natural area — use Bryant Park next door, which has the parking and restrooms, and walk over. The county lists a kayak launch, not a rental: bring your own boats, or treat it as a boardwalk date.
The city's lagoon-side living room, at Lake Avenue and Golfview next to the bridge: a boat ramp, a fishing pier, a band shell with a stage, and the one-mile Heart Trail along the water. It is the sunset side of Lake Worth Beach — the sun drops over the lagoon and the mainland, the band shell hosts city events, and the Snook Islands boardwalk starts next door. Arrive an hour before sunset with coffee or takeout and take the trail slowly.
📍 Lake Ave & S Golfview Dr, Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460 — on the Intracoastal at the Lake Ave bridgeFree — Public city park — no admission
Bryant Park is also the practical base for Snook Islands — its parking and restrooms serve both. Check the City's calendar for band shell concerts and events on your date night.
Across the bridge, the city's own beach complex: a guarded municipal beach, the 960-foot William O. Lockhart Pier reaching into the Atlantic, and the Casino building — a 1920s-style rebuild (opened 2013 on the footprint of the 1922 original; there is no gambling, and there has not been since the 1930s) holding restaurants and shops on the ground floor and a ballroom upstairs. Swim in the day, walk the pier, and eat facing the ocean without leaving the complex.
📍 10 S Ocean Blvd, Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460
Beach parking here is City-metered and enforced — check the City's beach and pier page for the current rates and the pier's current walking/fishing fees before you go, rather than relying on any guide's figure. The pier was rebuilt higher after the 2004 hurricanes and reopened in 2009, per the City's records.
The beach complex's signature table: a casual seafood restaurant listed by the City as a tenant of the Casino Building complex, with a location right on the pier — breakfast, lunch and dinner over the Atlantic, live music on weekends, and reservations taken through OpenTable per the restaurant. It is the dinner that lets a beach day turn into a beach evening without moving the car: swim, dry off, watch the light change over a plate of seafood.
📍 10 S Ocean Blvd, Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460 — at the Lake Worth Beach Casino complex and pier
Check hours, menus and reservation details on the restaurant's own site before you go — beachfront restaurants adjust hours by season and weather. The same complex also holds Mamma Mia's on the Beach for a casual pizza version of the same view, per the City's tenant list.
