JEAN HENDERSON PERF ARTS CENTER

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....

by Kay Kudukis - December 12, 2024

It’s all a big conundrum, isn’t it? Life in general, of course, but specifically, the idea as to whether or not someone will be happier single, or married. And in the musical COMPANY, Bobby’s friends, who are all married to each other, have decided that at the age of 35, Bobby’s getting a bit too lo...

by Kay Kudukis - December 09, 2024

In 2015, Vanity Fair published an article about the first super agent in Hollywood, Sue Mengers. Mengers career started where all women agents started in 1961, as a secretary. It was the same year she met the not-yet legendary Barbra Streisand, “before she lost the ‘a’,” quips Cathy Moriarty as Meng...

by Kay Kudukis - December 07, 2024

What did our critic think of NOBODY DOES IT BETTER at Palm Springs Cultural Center?...

by Charlie Thomas - December 06, 2024

What holiday season can be claimed as complete without a Disney musical, right?  While one can tick that box with the opening of “Moana 2” at the local movie house, there is nothing like a live performance to energize those merry-making juices.  Palm Canyon Theatre provides that much needed “spoon f...

by Gilmore Rizzo - November 19, 2024

As one audience member who fell asleep remarked, “Farce is hard”.  That gave the opening to this review. Farce IS hard if you don’t understand how it is to be directed so that it works effectively. This review was extremely difficult to write because Desert Ensemble Theatre is high on the list of pr...

by Kay Kudukis - November 17, 2024

What did our critic think of HILLARY AND CLINTON at Dezart Performs?...