PALM SPRINGS THEATER SHOWS

by David Green - January 28, 2025

What did our critic think of TRU at Desert Ensemble Theatre?Since I missed Chuck Yates’s award-winning performance of Jay Presson Allen’s TRU the first time around, I was thrilled to review the reprise of his solo show, playing through February 2, 2025, Desert Ensemble Theatre at the Palm Springs Cu...

by David Green - January 28, 2025

What did our critic think of THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA at Coachella Valley Repetory Theatre?Take it from the top: another charming and effective Jimmy Cuomo set that embraces the style and provides the backdrop for The Light in the Piazza. From the piano, Music Director Stephen Hulsey conducts the orc...

by Charlie Thomas - January 27, 2025

What did our critic think of LEGALLY BLONDE, THE MUSICAL at Desert Theatreworks?...

by Charlie Thomas - January 23, 2025

What did our critic think of A VERY SORDID WEDDING at Palm Canyon Theatre?...

by Kay Kudukis - January 21, 2025

I will start off straight away by saying you have to see FAT HAM. And I hope you are lucky enough to see it at Dezart Performs. This cast, in the hands of Michael Shaw, and AD Chuma Gault, form a very realistic, very dysfunctional family coming together at a backyard barbecue in North Carolina resul...

by Kay Kudukis - January 21, 2025

Go see it. ​​​​​​​If you check out the history of the musical, Spring Awakening, you will find that it is origins are in a German play titled The Awakening of Spring; underneath that, “A Tragedy of Childhood.” It was so controversial, it make it to stage for 15 years after it was written in 1891....

by Kay Kudukis - December 18, 2024

It’s all in good (and a little naughty) fun at Skippy and Bitsy’s All-Star Christmas TV Extravaganza on “live television”. This is a tv special you might have run across while surfing cable access tv, or in an SNL Christmas skit from the 1980s where it’s live and it’s a trainwreck, and there ain’t n...

by Charlie Thomas - December 15, 2024

What did our critic think of THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Theatre 29?...

by Kay Kudukis - December 13, 2024

What did our critic think of THE 39 STEPS at CVRep?...

by Charlie Thomas - December 13, 2024

What do you call a nun who can sing? A sister act!  And what do you call four nuns and a monk who sing and dance during Christmas? “Nuncrackers!” now playing weekends at Desert Theatreworks through December 29....