By JACK LYONS, Desert Local News (PALM SPRINGS, CA.) – As the early scenes of playwright Karen Zacarias’ 2019 comedy play-with-a-bite unfolds, one would think “I’ve seen this play /story before.” But, you would be incorrect. More precisely, we’ve all seen productions of the subject matter in Native Gardens. However, playwright Zacarias brings a new […]
By JACK LYONS, Desert Local News Its springtime in Palm Springs, CA. and love is in the air, especially, on stage at the Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) where bravado and bragging go hand in hand in 17th-century French playwright Edmond Rostand’s famous classical romantic comedy-tragedy of unrequited love: Cyrano de Bergerac. The rousing production directed […]
By JACK LYONS The country’s pandemic hit the Coachella Valley pretty hard. We lost CoyoteStageWorks, one of our multi-award-winning leading professional theatre companies, who after more than ten years, was forced to turn off their “ghost light” forever. Other theatre companies have been hanging by their fingernails amid this pandemic monster. But, for how long […]
By JACK LYONS, Desert Local News The Desert Ensemble Theatre Company (DETC) of Palm Springs launched its 2021-2022 season in its new home at Theatre # 3, inside the Palm Springs Cultural Center with the poignant drama The Beebo Brinker Chronicles on Friday, December 10, 2021. The award-winning theatrical company founded by playwright and director […]
By JACK LYONS, Desert Local News Live theaters all over the country are mounting their various holiday versions of Christmas-themed plays and musicals. The Palm Canyon Theatre, the city’s oldest live theatre, is no exception when it comes to presenting classical Christmas entertainment to its audiences. The Sound of Music is a show that the whole […]
By JACK LYONS, The world of theatre can become a transformative experience for many in the audience as each person views the production through different lenses at the same time. What is funny to one audience member may be off-putting to another. CV REP, one of the leading Equity theatre companies in the Coachella Valley, re-opened […]
By JACK LYONS It’s amazing what the human mind can understand and accomplish when it comes to the world of theatre and its sister art form the motion picture. Both are potent art forms that appeal to audiences worldwide. Creative arts practitioners of today however, are still traditionally bonded to the western culture of the Greek […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Tovah Feldshuh has made a career of originating memorable roles of strong female characters on both the small and large screens, but the milieu where she has been especially captivating and probably feels most at home has been on the stage. It’s why her roles as Golda […]
By JACK LYONS North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCRT) of Solana Beach, CA., brings gifted, multiple award-winning actor Tovah Feldshuh to their stage to star in playwright Mark St. Germain’s breezy and delightful one-woman stage play Becoming Dr. Ruth in the platform streaming movie format. Ruth Westheimer, Ph.D., the diminutive (4’ 7”) munchkin-like, giggling, “grandma” image and […]
By HARRY DUKE, originally published in NORTH BAY BOHEMIAN What is the point of reviewing theatre? If you had asked me that question 90 days ago, my answer would be to provide potential audience members some information with which they could make informed decisions on which of the numerous North Bay productions they might choose […]