While a mass killing seems an odd topic for a musical, “The View UpStairs” at Desert Rose Playhouse manages to be both funny and moving.
Don’t Miss This Bus
Bruce Graham’s thought-provoking play about race relations gets the dynamite production it deserves from Dezart Performs.
Bruce Graham’s thought-provoking play White Guy on the Bus about race relations gets the dynamite production it deserves from Dezart Performs.
The Art of Reason
As part of their eighth season, Desert Ensemble Theatre Company delivers a powerful original play about relationships and their surprising benefits.
As part of their eighth season, Desert Ensemble Theatre Company delivers a powerful original play about relationships and their surprising benefits.
Wash Your Cares Away
Coyote StageWorks’ production of Honky Tonk Laundry serves up plenty of good music, humor, and over-the-top hair fashions.
Coyote StageWorks’ production of “Honky Tonk Laundry”, a musical featuring the best of country music old and new, really works. And it’s a whole lot of fun.
The Advocate
Sinatra Center honoree Elizabeth Smart turned a personal horror story into a mission to protect others.
Eizabeth Smart found a way to move forward from her own personal horror story to help others by becoming an activist for children.
White Men Can’t Paint
James Ijams’ White explores race, gender, sexual identity, and the quest for recognition in a top-of-the-line production from Coachella Valley Repertory.
While the new play at Coachella Valley Repertory, White, is short, it’s tightly written, and asks plenty of compelling questions.
Through the Looping Glass
An afternoon recording session gone wrong garners lots of laughs in Looped.
“Looped” is a unique bit of theatrical genius in which a fading film star is the devil, not Hollywood itself at Desert Rose Playhouse in Rancho Mirage.
Perfect in Every Way
Perfect Arrangement expertly depicts some of the perils of being gay and closeted in the fabulous 1950s.
Dezart Performs’ lavish production of Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement is a masterpiece in telling the story of two couples living a double life.
The Community’s Theater
Robbie Wayne has a vision for presenting local theater, and he’s pursuing it as the new producing artistic director at The Desert Rose Playhouse.
Robbie Wayne speaks about his plans for the playhouse, his first season as producing artistic director at The Desert Rose Playhouse.
Curtain’s Up!
From thought-provoking comedies to warm and fuzzy musicals, there is much to see this theater season.
The Coachella Valley has so many performance venues that it would be impossible to see everything they offer. But it’s worth trying.