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CVRep is on fire this summer with a terrific line up of Broadway stars gracing their stage in the form of entertainment our valley is becoming known for: cabaret. 

Dezart Performs has announced its new home: the Dezart Playhouse, formerly the First Church of Christ, Scientist, an architectural landmark designed in 1957 by Robson Chambers and Albert Frey.

The Palm Springs Cultural Center is introducing a new live performance series this summer, blending classic cabaret sensibilities with a modern desert twist. Cabaret A La Carte takes place Friday evenings in Theatre 2, the Cultural Center’s newly renovated and intimate black box performance space. Each show begins at 7:30 PM and features a different artist, offering a fresh experience weekly across a five-week span.

Dezart Performs has chosen Architect Susan Secoy Jensen with Landscape Architect JC Miller and TheatreDNA consultant, Michael Ferguson to convert the First Church of Christ, Scientist at 605 Riverside Drive into the NEW Dezart Playhouse.

Casting is everything,” said legendary director Martin Scorsese. “If you get the right people, they make you look good as a director.”  That philosophy is on full display at this year’s Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival, where two outstanding student-written plays will be brought to life by an all-star lineup of actors and directors from stage and screen.

What did our critic think of BROADWAY'S BAD GUYS at Revolution Stage Company? Musical Director Chip Prince did a fantastic job keeping the two-man band tight and did double duty on vocals.

Season 3 of the Palm Springs Cultural Center's always sold-out Broadway’s Best…In The West concert series, Executive Produced by Dr. Tom Truhe and presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center now has tickets on sale. The popular series continues to bring Broadway's best and brightest stars to the desert, and this season is no exception. 

​​​​​​​After an exceptionally well-received debut in Yucca Valley, CA Late Company returns for a one-night-only encore performance — this time on the Palm Springs stage. Presented through a special collaboration between Inspiration’s Edge and Revolution Stage Company, this emotionally resonant drama will be performed on Saturday, June 6 at 7:00 PM at RSC’s venue at 611 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92264.

There is universal and personal anguish for all of us who can remember the frightening AIDS epidemic in the 80s. No one was left unscathed, and many families and friends were devastated with a feeling of fear and uncertainty about the enduring impact it would have for future generations.

In 2023, Erik Scott Romney knocked the socks off Palm Springs audiences with his portrayal of Mortimer, The Man Who Dies in CVReps’ “The Fantasticks. That’s the first time he showed up in my world, and I have needed more of his screwball talent in it ever since. 

Dean Bottrell, accomplished actor and storyteller,launches his tour this Friday, May 9 at Pangea in New York City.  Following the immense success of his previous show, the award-winning The Death of Me Yet, Bottrell will be touring his newest, equally acclaimed solo show, Teenage Wasteland: Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, a collection of funny, poignant and totally true stories from his rough and tumble early adolescence. 

His beginnings were as a chorus boy in Hollywood movie musicals of the 1950s, in classic films like There's No Business Like Show Business, Brigadoon, White Christmas, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. With his thatch of jet-black hair, George Chakiris was highly visible behind Cyd Charisse, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Mitzi Gaynor, Donald O'Connor, Danny Kaye, Marilyn Monroe and Debbie Reynolds.

The Palm Springs Cultural Center is proud to present two unforgettable evenings with acclaimed actor, playwright, and director Laurence Luckinbill, as he shares his iconic one-man performances LYNDON and CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT! in a newly expanded, community-supported setting: Theatre 2.

The Bent is proud to announce the regional premiere of The Inheritance Part I, the acclaimed, Tony Award-winning play by Matthew Lopez. Inspired by E.M.Forster’s Howards End, this sweeping and deeply moving epic story explores love, legacy, and the lives of gay men in 21st-century New York, decades after the height of the AIDS crisis.

John Waters made films for queer people long before the word queer was embraced by the community. That he was good friends with Warhol makes complete sense to me. They were cut from the same jib. What makes Waters a far better filmmaker was his ability to give us a fun story steeped in pretty clear messages while Warhol’s films are more like abstract art.