Feature: WITCHLAND at The Revolution Stage CompanyFebruary 1, 2024Witchland startles at The Revolution Stage Company on February 7th. Richland, Washington is a real place where playwright Tim Mulligan grew up, and it’s where he set his first play, Witchland.
Review: AVENUE Q at Revolution Stage CompanyJanuary 13, 2024Ten actors and nine puppets (created by Laura Stearns) took Palm Springs by storm last night when Revolution Stage Company opened Avenue Q. The buzz is strong with this one and it’s all true.
A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD Comes To Dezart Performs In MarchJanuary 10, 2024A philosopher once posited that “God is everywhere: sometimes you can even find him in church.” In playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s “must-see heartbreaker of a play” (The New York Times), A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, Divine compassion is found in a work-a-day back office in Idaho near the Canadian border where two broken men “find what connects us all and Holiness in humanity” (The Observer).
Previews: CINEMA ON ICE at Palm Springs Cultural CenterJanuary 10, 2024Deserted Films returns to the Historic Camelot Theatre (at the Palm Springs Cultural Center) Jan 21 - Feb 25 for a fun, winter-themed film series on the big screen culminating in a special screening of Dr. Zhivago (1965)… the first film to screen at the Camelot when it opened!
Previews: TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL at Revolution Stage CompanyJanuary 2, 2024Palm Springs’ newest, professional theater company, REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY (RSC), announces its inaugural TEN-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, January 13-14, 2024, showcasing the exciting new plays of TEN WRITERS from London, New York, New Jersey, Seattle, Hollywood, Port Townsend, Morongo Basin in addition to local playwrights from Palm Springs and Cathedral City.
Dezart Performs Launches Campaign To Fund New TheatreDecember 12, 2023After a long strategic planning process, Dezart Performs identified a new 4,400 square foot space in Cathedral City’s Canyon Plaza South. The campaign, called the NEXT STAGE CAMPAIGN, is headed by Co-Chairs and founding donors Ann Sheffer and Nancy Bleiweiss-Nevil. This new home will be called the Dezart Playhouse. “The productions that Dezart Performs puts on are not only extraordinary, but they are compelling,” said Cathedral City Mayor Rita Lamb. “I believe the introduction of Dezart Performs to Cathedral City is going to be transformative. It will add vibrancy and intensity, making that area of the community completely compelling.”
Previews: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at Dezart PerformsDecember 12, 2023Heidi Schreck is Dezart Performs first production of 2024, running January 19 – 28. Part history lesson, part family drama, the Tony Award Nominee and Pulitzer Prize Finalist is a “boundary-breaking play that breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans” (Forbes).
Previews: BONES BRIGADE at CVRepNovember 26, 2023COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY has announced casting for its World Premiere production of SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE, a dramatic original work by playwright KIRBY FIELDS. Adam Karsten, CVRep Executive Artistic Director, is directing SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE.
Review: OFF THE STREETS at Revolution Stage CompanyNovember 17, 2023What did our critic think of OFF THE STREETS at Revolution Stage Company? It’s not often you get to see a new piece of work that not only has a profound message, but has fantastic music and talent to match. Tuesday night I did.
Review: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at Dezart PerformsNovember 5, 2023When creating his season, Dezart Performs Artistic Director Michael Shaw always reaches for top shelf ingredients, but he’s mixed up a delicious cocktail of woke hilarity in Larissa Fasthorse’s marvelous The Thanksgiving Play.