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Theater Review: CHARLES DICKENS WRITES A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs)
WHAT THE DICKENS? SCROOGED AGAIN Pretty much everyone knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the lonely miser in 1800s London who is visited by three ghosts (four if you include Marley) urging him to change his ways, or face the consequences of an even lonelier life. The result is redemption and transformation just in time…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: SONGS FROM MY HOLIDAY CLOSET (Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs)
For years, Stage and Cinema has been covering the work of writer, composer and lyricist LT Cousineau’s original holiday offerings in Chicago. Now setting up Santa’s shop in Palm Springs, LT is presenting for one night only a heartwarming and hilarious “Holi-gay” Revue, Songs from My Holiday Closet. Revolution Stage Company will host the show…
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Cabaret Review: LEVI KREIS: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS TOUR (part of the Sand, Stars and Guitars Series at the Palm Springs Cultural Center)
GOODNESS GRACIOUS, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! Levi Kreis, the man from Oliver Springs, Tennessee, brought his 9th Annual Home for the Holidays Tour to the Palm Springs Cultural Center last weekend, and the stage he fully “inhabited” may never be the same. With so many performers putting on a fake stage persona and executing robotic…
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Theater Review: SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE (CVRep)
CAN’T SKATE AROUND IT: IT’S THE SCRIPT “Let’s Just Skate While We Still Can” — is this the moral of Summer Session with the Bones Brigade, now playing at CVRep through December 17th? Is it really? Does this play earn this last line of the evening? Akiyo Komatsu/DK, Ethan Zeph/Heath, Alex Michell/Lee Kudos to CVRep…
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Theater Review: MID-CENTURY MODERNS (Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs)
WITH MID-CENTURY MODERNS, FROTHY, PLAYFUL AND FUNNY ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH Written and nicely directed by Mark Christopher, Mid-Century Moderns is a light, breezy, funny and entirely enjoyable entertainment. Mid-Century Moderns is the musical adventures of Maryann Popecky, (Shannon Mary Dixon) a Wisconsin widow who want to move West for her dream job – a…
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Cabaret Review: A TINA TURNER TRIBUTE (Keisha D & Hearts of Soul at the Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs; part of “Cabaret6: Desert Stars”)
FULL-THROATED AND FIERCE, KEISHA D IS SIMPLY THE BEST As she embraced the audience with her full-throated voice and a fierce personality, you could see exactly why Keisha D may just be the best vocalist in the Coachella Valley. With hips, hands and heart all working the full crowd, this phenomenal performer can dish out…
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Theater Review: RENT (Palm Canyon Theatre)
MAKING THE RENT Jonathan Larson’s Rent is in a musical theater empyrean; indeed, productions are as ubiquitous as the stars in the firmament. The show is about a year in the life of bohemian artists struggling to survive, and if that sounds familiar, Larson based his 1997 work on Puccini’s opera La Bohème, which contrasts lavish life…
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Theater Review: GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE (Bent Theatre, Palm Springs)
WATCHING THREE TRIALS BECOMES A BIT OF A TRIAL In kicking off their second season, The Bent has again chosen to highlight an important issue of concern to the queer community, this time with a play by Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project, I Am My Own Wife, 33 Variations). The Bent fills an important niche in…
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Theater Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS (Palm Canyon Theater in Palm Springs)
MAGNOLIAS FOR JUDITH CHAPMAN AS M’LYNN In Steel Magnolias at the Palm Canyon Theatre in Palm Springs, which opened last weekend, Judith Chapman as M’Lynn blows the roof off of the theater and insists you pay attention; her second act monologue and emotional outburst is just brilliant. Chapman’s character takes almost the entire evening to…
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Cabaret Review: NO ONE IS ALONE: MELISSA ERRICO REMEMBERS STEPHEN SONDHEIM (CVRep)
ISN’T IT BLISS? Striding onto the CVRep stage last night, Broadway star Melissa Errico, in a black dress draped in silver sequins, dazzled the eyes looking as if she had just stepped off of the steps of a recent Met Gala in New York. Over the next 90 minutes, she dazzled the ears as well….
Off-Broadway Review: PORTRAITS OF GAYS IN DESPAIR (HB Playwrights Theatre)
by Michael Tyrell | July 13, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: THE GREAT GATSBY (National Tour)
by Lynne Weiss | July 12, 2026
in Boston, TheaterOff-Broadway Review: PORTRAITS OF GAYS IN DESPAIR (HB Playwrights Theatre)
by Kevin Hautigan | July 11, 2026
in New York, TheaterOff-Broadway Review: GIULIA: THE POISON QUEEN OF PALERMO (PAC NYC)
by Gregory Fletcher | July 10, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: CRAZY FOR YOU (Goodspeed Opera House / East Haddam, CT)
by Rob Lester | July 10, 2026
in Regional, TheaterTheater Review: SUFFS (First National Tour)
by Emma S. Rund | July 9, 2026
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