PALM SPRINGS

by Kay Kudukis - April 14, 2025

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 ...

by June August - April 14, 2025

The SHARK is BROKEN, a three-man, two-hour play inspired by the technical problems that delayed the filming of Jaws, is now amusing audiences at Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs through April 19. Directed by Roger Welch, the script by Ian Frost and Joseph Nixon dramatizes the frustrations of...

by June August - April 14, 2025

I was moved—completely captivated by the stunning performance of Luis Alfaro’s award-winning Black Butterfly, a poignant peek into one aspect of Mexican-American culture, now playing at Green Room Theatre Company. The show offers more than the play itself.  On a makeshift stage in the RAP Foundation...

by Kay Kudukis - April 07, 2025

In 2012, Colorado bakery owner Jack Phillips refused to bake a cake for couple David Mullins and Charlie Craig because he said it went against his religious beliefs. The couple won the case in the Colorado Supreme Court, but in a ruling written by Justice Kennedy, the United States Supreme Court sai...

by June August - March 22, 2025

Bravo to Maestro Steven Hulsey and Director Adam Karsten. Brava to Choreographer Karen Sieber. Not a note of Andrew Lloyd Webber's brilliant score was wasted. ...

by June August - March 22, 2025

What did our critic think of GOD OF CARNAGE at Palm Springs Cultural Center?...

by June August - March 21, 2025

When my 8th grade English class read Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’ exposé of the cruel and unjust treatment of the poor in Victorian London, I never dreamed it would become Lionel Bart’s poignant, award-winning 1960 musical Oliver. Alas, Broadway Theatricals’ delightful production just ended its Ma...

by June August - March 24, 2025

God of Carnage does not necessarily suggest comedy. Since I and those attending the Desert Ensemble Theatre production at the Palm Sprngs Cultural Center found ourselves laughing at the satiric humor in author Yasmine Reza’s dive into the exigencies of communication, the play conforms to the genre o...

by Charlie Thomas - March 16, 2025

What did our critic think of VICTOR / VICTORIA at Palm Canyon Theatre?...

by Kay Kudukis - March 16, 2025

What did our critic think of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING at Revolution Stage Company?...