NOTHING IS MORE REAL THAN NOTHING " Samuel Beckett Dramatist Will Eno doesn't make it easy on the audience in his 2012 play The Realistic Joneses at the Laguna Playhouse. Viewers are asked t…
A BAND TO BEAT THE BAND Coachella Valley's new queer theater company The Bent " in partnership with the Palm Springs Cultural Center " closes its wildly successful inaugural season with Mart…
A LOVE LETTER TO AN IMMIGRANT FATHER Coleman '72 is getting a fantastic world premiere production from South Coast Repertory. It is a melodrama about nostalgia, the immigrant experience, cro…
SCINTILLATING Every generation has it gap. Currently millennials are annoyed that baby boomers wrecked the planet and baby boomers are annoyed that millennials are, well, annoying. Add to th…
HOP INTO SPRING Friendship is among the hardest subjects to parse, but this musical based on Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" stories, considers friendship warts and all. Frog and Toad worry a…
After the roaring success of Pasadena Playhouse's wonderful production of Sunday in the Park with George, now comes A Little Night Music, which officially opens May 1, 2023. This is…
GOES WRONG GOES RIGHT The Play That Goes Wrong running through Sunday, April 30 at Desert Theater Works (DTW) in Indio is the only comedy to ever win both a Tony and Olivier award. It is a h…
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES No plague can kill a great show. It's back. In a rare clash of film noir, performance art, an awesome murder mystery party, and Shakespeare, Punchdrunk's Sleep…
WHITE GIRL IN DANGER IS IN DANGER Broadway wunderkind Michael R. Jackson is back on the boards at Second Stage's Vineyard Theatre, writing the book, music and lyrics for his…
THE BEST OSCAR GOES TO SEAN HAYES "It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view." The incomparable Oscar Levant is the subject of the hi…
THIS SHOW IS MURDER The latest production at North Coast Rep is a stage adaption of Dame Agatha Christie's 1923 detective novel Murder on the Links. Originally titled The Murder on the Links…
TIPS AND TITS Bus Stop Productions LLC is a new entertainment company in the Coachella Valley focusing on lively and unique experiences appealing to all that enjoy local nightlife. Their cur…
YOU'LL BE HOOKED The title says it all. Based on the play Peter Pan by JM Barrie, Peter Pan Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields is about a stage production of the chi…
TRAGI-COMIC CON Desert Ensemble Theater's (DET) current production, Eliza Clark's Future Thinking, closing on April 23, is the final play in their season of "West Coast Originals." The compa…
THE ONCE AND FUTURE FESTIVAL PRESENTS SIX NEW PLAYS BY CHICAGO PLAYWRIGHTS Six Chicago playwrights have come together to self-produce their own plays, their way. Inspired by previous self-pr…
THIS HEAVYWEIGHT TAKES THE PRIZE Can you ask for a more perfect pairing than a drag queen and the high camp of musical theater? In this national tour production of Hairspray, Tracy Turnblad …
WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL? THIS REVIVAL OF WOMAN OF THE YEAR I'm jealous of New York Musical lovers. If they want to catch a rarely produced musical from the "golden age" of Broadway (the dates of…
HOW DO YOU CATCH A TIGER BY THE TAIL? STAGING. The eye-popping special effects of Life of Pi are reason enough to see this show, which opened this week at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Yes,…
A GAY PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS From the Book of Proverbs: Locusts have no king. But they all move forward in formation. Rough translation: Locusts have no king so they lead a life of smallness and …
2023 COMES TO 1776 The founding of the United States of America has always been largely misunderstood, even by its own citizens. Fifty landowners got together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a…
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM Ah, the Father/Son relationship. Tough when bad and often difficult even when pop and junior love each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted with delightful…
ANNA MIKAMI ALREADY WELL-SEASONED IN HER THEATRICAL DEBUT For theatergoers who have been waiting impatiently for a new play about monosodium glutamate, your wish has been answered. Check out…
VISITING THE PAST FOR PRESENT LAUGHTER If you're looking to expose yourself to the plays of Noël Coward, this is where to start. Not only did he write Present Laughter (in six days!) to a…
DESERT MUSICAL IS AN OASIS IN THE DESERT I have often proclaimed that Andrew Lloyd Webber's best work was in his pre-1980 collaborations with Tim Rice. If you need proof or simply want to ta…
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MEETING If you're looking for great night of humor about white supremacy and anti-Semitism (and who isn't?), this is the show for y…