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Kay Kudukis

Former lead singer in a disco cover band turned Gaslight girl, turned actress, turned author of two produced, and wildly unacclaimed plays, and one likely-unseen teleplay, Kay Kudukis is a pragmatic optimist (read: Libra) who has found her bliss in Palm Springs offering honest and "meh"-revered written opinions to anyone who has an interest. Thanks for asking, you're swell.






Previews: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at Dezart Performs
Previews: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at Dezart Performs
December 12, 2023

Heidi Schreck is Dezart Performs first production of 2024, running January 19 – 28. Part history lesson, part family drama, the Tony Award Nominee and Pulitzer Prize Finalist is a “boundary-breaking play that breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans” (Forbes).

Review: CHARLES DICKENS WRITES A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Revolution Stage Company
Review: CHARLES DICKENS WRITES A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Revolution Stage Company
December 10, 2023

What did our critic think of CHARLES DICKENS WRITES A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Revolution Stage Company?

Previews: CHARLES DICKENS WRITES A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Revolution Stage Company
Previews: CHARLES DICKENS WRITES A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Revolution Stage Company
December 4, 2023

Palm Springs’ newest professional theater company, REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY, celebrates the Season with a BELOVED HOLIDAY CLASSIC! – Dickens Writes A Christmas Carol.

Previews: BONES BRIGADE at CVRep
Previews: BONES BRIGADE at CVRep
November 26, 2023

COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY has announced casting for its World Premiere production of SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE, a dramatic original work by playwright KIRBY FIELDS. Adam Karsten, CVRep Executive Artistic Director, is directing SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE.

Review: OFF THE STREETS at Revolution Stage Company
Review: OFF THE STREETS at Revolution Stage Company
November 17, 2023

What did our critic think of OFF THE STREETS at Revolution Stage Company? It’s not often you get to see a new piece of work that not only has a profound message, but has fantastic music and talent to match. Tuesday night I did.

Review: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at Dezart Performs
Review: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at Dezart Performs
November 5, 2023

When creating his season, Dezart Performs Artistic Director Michael Shaw always reaches for top shelf ingredients, but he’s mixed up a delicious cocktail of woke hilarity in Larissa Fasthorse’s marvelous The Thanksgiving Play.

Review: THE FANTASTICKS at CV Rep
Review: THE FANTASTICKS at CV Rep
November 5, 2023

What did our critic think of THE FANTASTICKS at CV Rep?

Previews: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at Dezart Performs
Previews: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at Dezart Performs
October 20, 2023

Four well-intentioned but terminally “woke” theatre artists meet in the rehearsal room at an elementary school to create a pageant that will somehow celebrate both Turkey Day and honor Native American Heritage Month. What could go wrong? The question should probably be a statement of “nothing goes right” in THE THANKSGIVING PLAY by Larissa FastHorse which opens Dezart Performs 16 th Season, November 3 – 12. FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is the first Native American woman to have a show produced on Broadway.

Review: NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN at Revolution Stage Company
Review: NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN at Revolution Stage Company
October 17, 2023

What did our critic think of NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN at Revolution Stage Company? According to Gnostic philosopher Samael Aun Weor, the Age of Aquarius began on February 4, 1962 and in 1967 the song about it, “Aquarius”, from the musical Hair became the anthem for what would surely be the beginning of an age that heralded harmony and understanding. Right?

Previews: THE FANTASTICKS at CVRep
Previews: THE FANTASTICKS at CVRep
October 17, 2023

What happens when a much-loved play or musical is reimagined? If you set Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the 1950s, does that mean it has been reimagined? Could you set My Fair Lady during the Depression and consider that reimagined? The musical Cabaret has lended itself to various interpretations that differ from the original production, even if the script hasn’t been altered at all. And recently, with the permission of Stephen Sondheim, a production of his musical Company changed the lead’s gender from Bobby to Bobbie, allowing a woman to play the role for the first time.

Previews: CABARET6: DESERT STARS At Revolution Stage Company
Previews: CABARET6: DESERT STARS At Revolution Stage Company
September 26, 2023

K & E Entertainment will present Cabaret6: Desert Stars featuring rarely seen cabaret shows from Coachella Valley’s finest entertainers.

Previews: MID CENTURY MODERNS at Revolution Stage Company
Previews: MID CENTURY MODERNS at Revolution Stage Company
September 27, 2023

Dan Gelfand, co-producer of “Mid-Century Moderns,” announced today the return of the hit jukebox musical in a new theatrical space, the Revolution Stage Company, in downtown Palm Springs near Revivals. Beginning Friday, October 6, the show will play for 8 consecutive weekends of Friday evening performances followed by Saturday and Sunday matinees.

Previews: THE DREAMBOATS at Revolution Stage Company
Previews: THE DREAMBOATS at Revolution Stage Company
September 11, 2023

Palm Springs’ newest theatre venture, the Revolution Stage Company (RSC), a 501c3 non-profit, kicks-off their first, exciting ‘dream’ season with a fundraiser featuring THE DREAMBOATS on Thursday, September 28 at 8 pm.

Broadway's Best in The West Comes to Palm Springs Cultural Center
Broadway's Best in The West Comes to Palm Springs Cultural Center
July 30, 2023

Palm Springs Cultural Center presents Broadway’s Best of the West Series featuring shows by Megan Hilty, Jack Kelly, Cheyenne Jackson, and Laura Benanti.

Previews: SUMMER CABARET SERIES Heats Up The Summer At Coachella Valley Repertory
Previews: SUMMER CABARET SERIES Heats Up The Summer At Coachella Valley Repertory
June 29, 2023

COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY continues its 2023 SUMMER CABARET SERIES with more stellar entertainment.

Previews: Coachella Valley Repertory Announces 2023/2024 Season
Previews: Coachella Valley Repertory Announces 2023/2024 Season
June 29, 2023

Executive Artistic Director Adam Karsten has announced CVRep’s 2023-2024 Season: five sensational productions new to CVRep, World and West Coast premieres, and multi-Tony®Award winning shows. 

Previews: Dezart Performs Announces THE THANKSGIVING PLAY And More For 2023/2024 Season
Previews: Dezart Performs Announces THE THANKSGIVING PLAY And More For 2023/2024 Season
June 26, 2023

Building on an award winning season that saw its acclaimed productions secure 96% capacity, Dezart Performs of Palm Springs (www.dezartperforms.org ) announces its 16th year of fearless, provocative, and inspiring theatre including a Pulitzer Finalist, Drama Critics Circle Award Winner, and a first ever Broadway play written by a Native American.

Previews: Broadway's Alan H. Green To Take The Stage For To Coachella Valley Repertory's Summer Cabaret Series
Previews: Broadway's Alan H. Green To Take The Stage For To Coachella Valley Repertory's Summer Cabaret Series
May 10, 2023

COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY will present the charismatic, award-winning ALAN H. GREEN as the second artist in CVRep's 2023 Summer Cabaret Series on Thursday, May 11 at 7 p.m.

Previews: DIFFERENT DRUM: THE MUSIC OF LINDA RONSTADT at Arthur Newman Theater, Palm Desert
Previews: DIFFERENT DRUM: THE MUSIC OF LINDA RONSTADT at Arthur Newman Theater, Palm Desert
May 5, 2023

Different Drum, the story of Linda Ronstadt's life with Ronstadt's own music providing the soundtrack and is playing Sunday, May 7 at Arthur Newman Theater at the Joslyn Center.

Review: THE BOYS IN THE BAND at The Bent
Review: THE BOYS IN THE BAND at The Bent
May 1, 2023

What did our critic think of THE BOYS IN THE BAND at The Bent?I went into this production by The Bent with some provenance. Back in the 20 teens I had the privilege of interviewing Larry Luckinbill on the 50th anniversary of Boys in the Band which was also the same year the remake came out. I watched the film. I read all about when the stage play came out in the 1960s, which is a powerful story in and of itself. I read about the playwright Mart Crowley, that there were two straight guys in the original production, and almost all of the other actors succumbed to AIDS.



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