Kay Kudukis

Revolution Stage Company is thrilled to announce its upcoming production of the Tony Award-winning musical SPRING AWAKENING, running from January 15 to January 30, 2025. With its raw emotion, stunning music, and profound message, SPRING AWAKENING is a theatrical experience which redefines what musical theatre can be.

It’s all in good (and a little naughty) fun at Skippy and Bitsy’s All-Star Christmas TV Extravaganza on “live television”. This is a tv special you might have run across while surfing cable access tv, or in an SNL Christmas skit from the 1980s where it’s live and it’s a trainwreck, and there ain’t nothing you can do about the disaster happening around you except punt and hope for the best.

What did our critic think of THE 39 STEPS at CVRep?

It’s all a big conundrum, isn’t it? Life in general, of course, but specifically, the idea as to whether or not someone will be happier single, or married. And in the musical COMPANY, Bobby’s friends, who are all married to each other, have decided that at the age of 35, Bobby’s getting a bit too long in the tooth to not have a wife. 

In 2015, Vanity Fair published an article about the first super agent in Hollywood, Sue Mengers. Mengers career started where all women agents started in 1961, as a secretary. It was the same year she met the not-yet legendary Barbra Streisand, “before she lost the ‘a’,” quips Cathy Moriarty as Mengers in The Bents staging of John Logan’s play, I’LL EAT YOU LAST: A Chat With Sue Mengers, which premiered on Friday, December 6. 

What did our critic think of NOBODY DOES IT BETTER at Palm Springs Cultural Center?

Described as Hitchcock meets Monty Python, The 39 Steps Runs 12-10 thru 22 at CVRep Theatre in Cathedral City, CA.

Dezart Performs (dezartperforms.org) presents FAT HAM Jan 17 - 26, 2025 directed by Michael Shaw.Critically-acclaimed playwright James Ijamesreinvents Shakespeares' Hamlet with this new drama. Performances are at The Pearl McManus Theater at the historic Palm Springs Woman’s Club, 314 S. Cahuilla Road, Downtown Palm Springs. FAT HAM runs 90 minutes without intermission.

Palm Springs’ THE BENT presents Academy Award® nominee Cathy Moriarty as the ruthless Hollywood powerhouse talent agent Sue Mengers in John Logan’s one-woman, one-act play, “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers,” directed by Steve Rosenbaum.

Revolution Stage Company is thrilled to present Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical, Company, running December 6–22, 2024. A landmark in musical theatre, Company redefined Broadway storytelling when it premiered in 1970, offering a witty, honest, and deeply human exploration of love, relationships, and self-discovery.

What did our critic think of HILLARY AND CLINTON at Dezart Performs?

By now, pretty much everyone knows the musical Little Shop of Horrors was based on a 1960s film by Roger Corman with a “cameo” by Jack Nicholson. The film was a cult hit, and in 1982 Howard Ashman and Alan Menken published the musical of the same name.

Just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, and in order to give back to the community he has lived in since 2005, Rickie McCabe, a comedian and singer, is producing a musical benefit to raise funds for the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission (cvrm.org), which has served the unhoused population in the Coachella Valley since 1971.

world of Little Shop of Horrors to life from November 7-23, 2024. This beloved dark comedy musical has captivated audiences for decades with its unique blend of humor, horror, and heart.

Strong vocals carry the night at Revolution’s production of the dated, but funny, I Do, I Do. With book and lyrics by clever lyricist Tom Jones, the only song you might recall is Try to Remember (also in his 1960s musical The Fantasticks), which landed on the Billboard’s 100 in 1965 not once, but three times by three different artists. 

De zart Performs’ Season 17 appropriately kicks off with the 2019 Broadway comedy HILLARY AND CLINTON by Lucas Hnath (November 15 - 24, 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.

“Mid-Century Moderns,” the original 1960s jukebox musical comedy set in Palm Springs, returns October 18 for an 8-performance run at Revolution Stage Company. The show is currently the Valley’s longest-running theatrical production, with over 80 performances since its premiere in April 2022. The musical will be performed on 5 consecutive Friday evenings at 7PM, starting October 18 (also October 25, November 1, November 8 and November 15), as well as three Sunday 2PM matinee performances on October 20, October 27 and November 17.

Dezart Performs waved bye bye bye to renting space from Palm Springs Woman's Club by announcing the purchase of an Albert Frey designed church that will become their home. The theatre kept things under wrap, and the reveal was met with enthusiasm.

Palm Springs’ newest theatre enterprise, the REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY garnered an impressive number of the recently- announced DTL (Desert Theatre League) nominations.