THE MINUTES
“It’s devilishly funny until it’s not. It is thrilling and essential theater that interrogates the present by laying bare how history is written." Variety
Upcoming Shows
MARK BROWN'S AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
“... smart enough to make sophisticated adults laugh out loud and shamelessly silly enough to keep children in the audience interested and entertained." NY Times
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
“… wonderfully captures the spirit of these seminal figures who would go on to change the course of popular music.”– Hollywood Reporter
LES MISÉRABLES
CVREP EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ADAM KARSTEN will be at the helm of this new staging of what is one of the world’s most revered musicals.
Review: IN THE TOMB OF TEN THOUSAND CALENDARS at Moving Arts Theatre
What did our critic think of IN THE TOMB OF TEN THOUSAND CALENDARS at Moving Arts Theatre?…
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey
TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…
Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater
The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre
Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Hudson Backstage Theatre
With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…
Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at Broadwater Black Box
Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…
Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Old Globe Theatre - San Diego
The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…
Review: Immersive Rock Opera DRACULA THE MUSICAL at Nocturne Theatre
Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…
Review: THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…
Review: PUPPET UP! at the Richardo Montalbán Theatre
Puppet Up!'s motley crew of Jim Henson puppets are as raw and funny as you can get...if you're willing.…
Past Shows
114 total · showing 41–50
Broadway Barbara Live!
Stage legend. social media sensation (@BroadwayBarbaraOfficial), subtly understated international entertainment titan. Broadway Barbara returns to the Desert, making her Coachella Valley Repertory debut. Her raucous performances in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and...
Ken Page Live!
KEN PAGE is an acclaimed, award-winning performer on Broadway, in theater companies across the country, in films ( Dreamgirls , Torch Song Trilogy , All Dogs Go To Heaven ), and in concert halls. He provided the unmistakable voice of Mr. Oogie Boogie in the classic Disney, Tim...
Nice Work If You Can Get It
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT will be the biggest production ever mounted on the CVRep stage. A classic Broadway blockbuster filled with actors, singers, dancers and beloved Gershwin tunes, including “Sweet and Lowdown,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Let’s Call the Whole Thing...
Potus: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive
A side-splitting modern day political farce fresh from Broadway and just in time for election season! Just another day in the Oval Office, the vortex of world order: Chief of Staff Harriet and Press Secretary Jean are trying to minimize the damage after the President called his...
Cabaret
CVRep Executive Artistic Director Adam Karsten directs this immersive, one-of-a-kind production of a theatrical stroke of genius. Audience members will step off the street and into a world we could only imagine - a wild nightlife, a dangerous time in an unstable country - a...
Summer Session With The Bones Brigade
CVRep presents the World Premiere of this powerful new play by Kirby Fields. Summer Session With The Bones Brigade was a submission in CVRep's ORIGINS New Works Development Program. It tells the story of four teenage skateboarders and their two female friends. When one of them...
The Fantasticks: A Love Story Reimagined
Coachella Valley Repertory presents the West Coast Premiere of the reimagined, regendered production of this groundbreaking musical. In the premiere of this new version of The Fantasticks , Tom Jones, the original librettist and lyricist, has preserved the beloved songs and...
LISA VROMAN LIVE!
is incomparable. Lisa Vroman is a star of Broadway and opera stages, in concert halls and grand celebrations around the world. Her voice is “crystal clear and beautiful.“ Lisa Vroman made her Broadway debut in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love. She also starred on Broadway...
MORE BROADWAY SHOWSTOPPERS WITH GLENN ROSENBLUM
Glenn Rosenblum continues his survey of musical theatre classes with a second installment of BROADWAY SHOWSTOPPERS with GLENN ROSENBLUM . A captivating storyteller with an encyclopedic knowledge of Broadway history will be joined by Broadway's Alix Korey, Leslie Stevens and...
CHRISTIA MANTZKE LIVE!
In this exclusive one-night event, Broadway performer and Billboard Award-winning EMI recording artist CHRISTIA MANTZKE sings some of her favorite songs from productions over her past thirty years as an entertainer. She will share vocal snapshots of her theatrical career, along...
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Comics Reading Comics Dynasty Typewriter (9/13-9/13) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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It's A Lot Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe (9/17-9/19) |
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Jane Austen UnScripted Kings Road Park (9/12-9/27) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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Victoria Marks, A Deer Walks into a Dance UCLA Nimoy Theater (10/16-10/17) |