DEZART PERFORMS

by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Palm Springs Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

by Kay Kudukis - October 06, 2025

Dezart Performs is proud to announce the grand opening of the NEW Dezart Playhouse at 605 South Riverside Drive, Palm Springs with WEST SIDE STORY IN CONCERT: A GALA CELEBRATION featuring a live orchestra and vocal ensemble November 13-15, 2025....

by Kay Kudukis - July 08, 2025

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....

by Kay Kudukis - June 05, 2025

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....

by Gilmore Rizzo - April 22, 2025

As the end of the theatre season approaches, the best theatres in the desert are finishing with its finest productions. One such case is the exceptional musical produced by Michael Shaw and Clark Dugger at Dezart Performs, as they present FALSETTOS, directed by Dennis Courtney....

by Kay Kudukis - March 18, 2025

Dezart Performs (dezartperforms.org) presents FALSETTOS  directed by Dennis Courtney,April 18 - April 27 2025 at the Pearl McManus Theater in the Palm Springs Woman’s Club, 314 S. Cahuilla Road, Palm Springs. ...

by Kay Kudukis - February 04, 2025

Dezart Performs will present the profound and gripping play GRAND CONCOURSE directed by Michael Shaw,February 28 - March 9 2025 at the Pearl McManus Theater....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 29, 2025

Moving Arts has revealed the members of the MADLab 2025 cohort. MADLab playwrights have also gone on to write for television shows such as Watchmen, Man in the High Castle, Vida, and Lawman Bass Reeves, among others....

by Kay Kudukis - January 21, 2025

I will start off straight away by saying you have to see FAT HAM. And I hope you are lucky enough to see it at Dezart Performs. This cast, in the hands of Michael Shaw, and AD Chuma Gault, form a very realistic, very dysfunctional family coming together at a backyard barbecue in North Carolina resul...

by Kay Kudukis - December 04, 2024

Dezart Performs (dezartperforms.org) presents FAT HAM Jan 17 - 26, 2025 directed by Michael Shaw.Critically-acclaimed playwright James Ijamesreinvents Shakespeares' Hamlet with this new drama. Performances are at The Pearl McManus Theater at the historic Palm Springs Woman’s Club, 314 S. Cahuilla Ro...