Review: THE INHERITANCE PART I at The Bent
by Kay Kudukis - May 19, 2025
There is universal and personal anguish for all of us who can remember the frightening AIDS epidemic in the 80s. No one was left unscathed, and many families and friends were devastated with a feeling of fear and uncertainty about the enduring impact it would have for future generations.
Review Roundup: THE GIFT at Park Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 30, 2025
See what the critics are saying about The Gift at Park Theatre. Read the reviews for the production starring Nicholas Burns, Laura Haddock and Alex Price.
Review: THE GIFT, Park Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Jan 30, 2025
An anonymous package arrives in Colin’s post, sending him into a spiral. Whether it’s a revenge plan gone wrong or a silly prank, what Colin receives in an unassuming cake box disturbs him out of his mind. His sister Lisa and his best friend Brian (also Lisa’s boyfriend) try to help. Our imagination could have a field day as Colin unravels, but we're immediately told it's human excrement.
Review: LOOT at Desert Ensemble Theatre
by Gilmore Rizzo - Nov 19, 2024
As one audience member who fell asleep remarked, “Farce is hard”. That gave the opening to this review. Farce IS hard if you don’t understand how it is to be directed so that it works effectively. This review was extremely difficult to write because Desert Ensemble Theatre is high on the list of professional quality community theatres in the desert.
Review: F**KING MEN at The Bent
by Kay Kudukis - Oct 16, 2024
Joe Dipietro’s play explores the different dynamics between men and the thrill of anonymous sex. The comic throughline of “Why do we bang strangers? Because it feels fantastic!” propels the action, and comedy carries the night but buried underneath are some deeper emotions, and complicated situations. When the opportunity to have a meaningless encounter occurs, there is always discussion leading up to it, but there is always an encounter because… see title.
LOOT Comes to Desert Ensemble Theatre Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Oct 9, 2024
Tickets are now available for Desert Ensemble Theatre’s (DET) production of Loot, by Joe Orton (1965). The genre-changing black comedy runs from November 15–24 In Theatre 3 at the Palm Springs Cultural Center.
Review: THE LINCOLN DEBATE at The Bent
by Kay Kudukis - May 8, 2024
The Lincoln Debate, an original play by Terry Ray, is a great concept: Debate the long bandied about “rumor” that Abraham Lincoln was gay or, at very least, bi-sexual, and throw in some comic re-enactments.