Adam Jonas Segaller

Everyone has a secret or two stashed away. We hide them for fear of being shamed or in some cases, worse. Shame is solely the product of 'agreed upon' societal 'norms'; if we don't fit into any given box then we have an Achilles heel, something others can use to hurt or destroy us. Mean girls, churches, and government have always been exceptionally good at shaming.

Dezart Performs Continues 11th Season with Perfect Arrangement. Secret Lives set in the midst of the 1950s Red Scare is the focus of thhis dark but witty comic work by Topher Payne

Imagine I Love Lucy with Ricky and Fred sharing a bed and Lucy and Vivian as lesbian lovers with State Department credentials. In a nutshell, that's the recipe for the improbable secret high-wire act brought to life in Topher Payne's darkly comic Perfect Arrangementfrom the award winning Dezart Performs of Palm Springs. Set against the backdrop of the 1950s "Red Scare" and the burgeoning gay rights movement, the play runs January 11 - 20 at thePearl McManus Theater (at the historic Palm Springs Woman's Club / 314 S Cahuilla Road, Downtown Palm Springs) and is directed by Dezart Performs founding artistic director Michael Shaw.

The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre presents Frederick Knott's 'Dial 'M' for Murder' directed by Bruce Kimmel, produced by Mannette Antill for the Group Rep.  In this mystery thriller play that inspired Hitchcock's suspense classic, a cunning man marries a wealthy woman for her money and plans to murder her to get her fortune. He devises a perfect murder, blackmails a criminal and arranges a brilliant alibi. To say more about a twisty and surprising thriller simply wouldn't be sporting, would it?   

The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre presents Frederick Knott's "Dial "M" for Murder" directed by Bruce Kimmel, produced by Mannette Antill for the Group Rep. 

Mind The Gap Theatre (NYC's premiere Anglo-American company) returns for their seventh series of new short plays by, for or about the British - featuring their in-house repertory company of actors.

Mind The Gap Theatre (NYC's premiere Anglo-American company) returns for their seventh series of new short plays by, for or about the British - featuring their in-house repertory company of actors.

Mind The Gap Theatre (NYC's premiere Anglo-American company) returns for their seventh series of new short plays by, for or about the British - featuring their in-house repertory company of actors.

Mind The Gap Theatre (NYC's premiere Anglo-American company) returns for their seventh series of new short plays by, for or about the British - featuring their in-house repertory company of actors.

Mind The Gap Theatre (NYC's premiere Anglo-American company) returns for their seventh series of new short plays by, for or about the British - featuring their in-house repertory company of actors.

Mind The Gap Theatre (NYC's premiere Anglo-American company) returns for their seventh series of new short plays by, for or about the British - featuring their in-house repertory company of actors.

NJRep will end its run of EXPOSURE TIME on March 21st. In the largely true but playfully skewed world of Kim Merrill's 'Exposure Time,' photography is the Next Big Thing; Darwin and Tennyson are A-List celebrities; and Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) wants all the great minds to sit for his camera alone.

In the largely true but playfully skewed world of Kim Merrill's 'Exposure Time,' photography is the Next Big Thing; Darwin and Tennyson are A-List celebrities; and Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) wants all the great minds to sit for his camera alone

While Johnny Depp portrays the Mad Hatter on movie screens around the world this winter, Lewis Carroll, the conflicted creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, will be on stage at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, fighting passionately to be known not as a children's author but as Charles Dodgson, the greatest portrait photographer in the British Empire.

In the largely true but playfully skewed world of Kim Merrill's 'Exposure Time,' photography is the Next Big Thing; Darwin and Tennyson are A-List celebrities; and Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) wants all the great minds to sit for his camera alone

While Johnny Depp portrays the Mad Hatter on movie screens around the world this winter, Lewis Carroll, the conflicted creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, will be on stage at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, fighting passionately to be known not as a children's author but as Charles Dodgson, the greatest portrait photographer in the British Empire.