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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: CINEMA ON ICE at Palm Springs Cultural Center
Previews: CINEMA ON ICE at Palm Springs Cultural Center
January 10, 2024

Deserted Films returns to the Historic Camelot Theatre (at the Palm Springs Cultural Center) Jan 21 - Feb 25 for a fun, winter-themed film series on the big screen culminating in a special screening of Dr. Zhivago (1965)… the first film to screen at the Camelot when it opened!  

Revolution Stage Company Presents the California Premiere of Dayna Steele's Dark Comedy THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR
Revolution Stage Company Presents the California Premiere of Dayna Steele's Dark Comedy THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR
January 5, 2024

Revolution Stage Company has announced the California premiere of THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR, a dark comedy about navigating Alzheimer's with love, laughter, and wine, adapted from Dayna Steele’s best-selling book Surviving Alzheimer’s with Friends, Facebook, and a Really Big Glass of Wine.

Previews: WITCHLAND at Revolution Stage Company
Previews: WITCHLAND at Revolution Stage Company
January 5, 2024

Palm Springs’ newest theater company, REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY (RSC), announces the premier engagement of Tim Mulligan’s thriller, WITCHLAND.

Previews: TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL at Revolution Stage Company
Previews: TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL at Revolution Stage Company
January 2, 2024

Palm Springs’ newest, professional theater company, REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY (RSC), announces its inaugural TEN-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, January 13-14, 2024, showcasing the exciting new plays of TEN WRITERS from London, New York, New Jersey, Seattle, Hollywood, Port Townsend, Morongo Basin in addition to local playwrights from Palm Springs and Cathedral City.

Review: IT'S ONLY A PLAY at The Bent
Review: IT'S ONLY A PLAY at The Bent
December 16, 2023

What did our critic think of IT’S ONLY A PLAY at The Bent?

Review: SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE at CV Rep
Review: SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE at CV Rep
December 17, 2023

What did our critic think of SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE at CV Rep?

Previews: AVENUE Q At Revolution Stage Company
Previews: AVENUE Q At Revolution Stage Company
December 13, 2023

Palm Springs’ newest, professional theater company, REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY (RSC), presents the Tony Award-winning smash hit musical, AVENUE Q!

Dezart Performs Launches Campaign To Fund New Theatre
Dezart Performs Launches Campaign To Fund New Theatre
December 12, 2023

After a long strategic planning process, Dezart Performs identified a new 4,400 square foot space in Cathedral City’s Canyon Plaza South. The campaign, called the NEXT STAGE CAMPAIGN, is headed by Co-Chairs and founding donors Ann Sheffer and Nancy Bleiweiss-Nevil. This new home will be called the Dezart Playhouse. “The productions that Dezart Performs puts on are not only extraordinary, but they are compelling,” said Cathedral City Mayor Rita Lamb. “I believe the introduction of Dezart Performs to Cathedral City is going to be transformative. It will add vibrancy and intensity, making that area of the community completely compelling.”

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.



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