PALM SPRINGS THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 2

It was an unusually brisk day in Palm Springs when I set out for Coachella Valley Repertory for an interview with Howard Shangraw, who will be directing the next MainStage production of the 2026 season, titled, One Man, Two Guvnors.

Let’s talk about community theatre.

her powerhouse voice to the desert as she headlines the Palm Springs Cultural Center on February 14, 2026 at 7 PM, appearing in Season 3 of Broadway’s Best… In the West concert series, executive produced by Tom Truhe.

Winners have been announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Palm Springs Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

I knew who Christine Ebersole was, that is - when you said her name I could immediately envision her face, hair and distinctive voice - but role-wise I often mix her up with Caroline Rhea, and Melissa Peterman.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Palm Springs Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight.

Broadway sensation Carrie St.

The Long Beach Playhouse Studio Collaborative Series is a season of plays mounted by local theater companies, performing arts organizations and individuals.

Garry Kief, Chairman of the Board of the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, CA, announced that Chief Executive Officer Yvonne Bell has been appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of the organization.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) will participate in San Francisco Art Week with a series of free exhibitions, performances, artist talks, workshops, and civic programs, opening its galleries to the public throughout the week.

Grab Grandpa, the kids, and all of your retro-loving pals some tickets to Revolution Stage Company’s production of Plaid Tidings this holiday season!

The Tony Winning Best Musical MOULIN ROUGE was the highly anticipated opener to the McCallum's Broadway Season and it brought an enthusiastic audience all the promised spectacle, glitz, excess, bawdiness and More, More, More!!! There is much to love about this thrill ride of a production -- but the

A DOUBLEWIDE, TEXAS CHRISTMAS is loaded with groaner puns and double entendres, the physical humor is anything but highbrow, and the characters are loony, with the audience frequently howling with laughter, especially during the insane second act.

Coachella Valley Rep opens its season with Dear Even Hansen, winner of six Tony awards in 2017.

Dog Sees God is a play that takes the gang from the world of the Peanuts comic strip and reimagines them as angsty, troubled teenagers.

Palm Canyon Theatre’s holiday-season production of “Annie” is a radiant reminder that optimism and heart can light even the darkest of times.

Fractured Hollywood, a live theater experience, will run for one weekend only at the Palm Beach Institute for the Entertainment Arts, opening December 12.

What do you call a gaggle of nuns and a monk or two who sing and dance at Christmas? “Nuncrackers; THE Nunsense Christmas Musical,” playing weekends at Theatre 29 through December 7.

Voting is now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Palm Springs Awards.

BroadwayWorld's Next On Stage, Broadway's biggest national competition for high school and college students, returned to reveal the Top 15 performers in both age groups.

Who will make the Top 15 of BroadwayWorld's Next On Stage? You'lll have to tune in tonight, November 21 (High School: 7pm ET, College: 9pm ET), to find out!

Desert Ensemble Theatre’s (DET’s) first offering for 2025-26, THE ROOMMATE, a one-act two-person dramedy written by Jen Silverman, is, as is common for DET, brilliantly directed and brilliantly acted.