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The Pirates of Penzance

McCallum Theatre 73000 Fred Waring Dr., Palm Desert, CA, United States

The Pirates of Penzance tells the story of a young pirate apprentice named Frederic who has come to the end of his indentured period. As it turns out, Frederic was indentured by mistake. His half-deaf nurse had been instructed to apprentice him to a "pilot" but got it a little wrong. Now in its forty-eighth year of operation, New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players is America’s preeminent professional Gilbert & Sullivan repertory ensemble.

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Ellie

Desert Ensemble Theatre 2300 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Brothers Richard and Warren are grieving the death of one of their wives. Their mourning sparks a confrontation that lays bare their life-long love/hate relationship and changes their lives forever.

$37.50

Life, Love, and the Pursuit by Shelly Cheseter

Unitarian Universal Church of the Desert 72425 Vía Vail,, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Maxine Stafford, 67, meets the very successful 55-year-old writer, Ryan Allen Squire. As Maxine attempts to play matchmaker for Ryan, the two develop a very unlikely friendship that changes both of their lives forever.

$15 – $120
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Desert Theatreworks 45175 Fargo Street, Indio, CA, United States

For six years, BEAUTIFUL, the Tony® and Grammy Award®-winning Carole King musical, thrilled Broadway audiences with the inspiring true story of one woman’s remarkable journey from teenage songwriter to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now, BEAUTIFUL is making headed to the DTW stage!

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Sweeney Todd

Palm Canyon Theatre 538 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA, United States

An unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking revenge against the judge who framed him. Renaming himself Sweeney Todd, the now-mad man vows revenge, applying his razor to unlucky customers and shuttling the bodies down to Mrs. Lovett’s meat-pie shop. Though many fall to his blade, Todd will not be satisfied until he slits the judge’s throat.

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Maggie Magalita

See the story of Maggie, set in a tiny studio apartment in a big city, where Maggie lives with her working mother. In elementary school Maggie was cruelly bullied by other kids because she could only speak Spanish. Now a high school teen, Maggie refuses to speak Spanish at all; when her grandmother comes to live with them Maggie is re-awakened to, and embarrassed by, her Hispanic roots.

$5 – $18

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Young Playwrights Celebration: Main Character by Brooklyn Rutledge 

Unitarian Universal Church of the Desert 72425 Vía Vail,, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Cass is a completely, totally, absolutely average high school girl, definitely not anybody who would be a main character. She is overly aware of this fact, and yet, here she is dealing with all the annoyances that come from being the star of the show.

$15 – $120
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The Boys in the Band

Palm Canyon Theatre 538 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA, United States

In his New York City apartment, Michael throws a birthday party for Harold, a self-avowed “thirty-two-year-old, pockmarked, Jew fairy,” complete with a surprise gift: “Cowboy,” a street hustler. As the evening wears on – fueled by drugs and alcohol – bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when a game of “Truth” goes terribly wrong.

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Nice Work if You Can Get it

Coachella Valley Repertory 68510 E Palm Canyon Dr., Cathedral City, CA, United States

There’s a “Somebody I’m Longing to See” and they’re “S’wonderful” with a “Fascinating Rhythm”. Before you, “Call The Whole Thing Off”, get the “Sweet and Lowdown” of this “Lady Be Good” musical that will hit the CVRep stage with Gershwin songs you’ll be humming the whole way home.

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Sherlock Holmes Confidential

Desert Ensemble Theatre 2300 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, CA, United States

This sparkling comedy was great success at DET’s 2022 Summer reading series. In an alternative version of the Holmes origin story, a spurned romance leads to someone threatening to unmask the young detective as a fraud.

$37.50
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Harper Lee’s: To Kill A Mockingbird

Desert Theatreworks 45175 Fargo Street, Indio, CA, United States

Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird opens in a sleepy Alabama town in the midst of the Great Depression, where Scout and her brother, Jem, live with their widowed father, Atticus Finch. Reminiscent of a bygone era, the play immerses us in a simpler time as the children play outside in the summer, act out stories and muse about their mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley.

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