The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival is an annual celebration of writers, books, readers, and ideas! The City of Rancho Mirage, California will welcome authors and readers to the Rancho Mirage Public Library. Writers will talk about their books, their source of ideas, and the mechanics of writing for publication.
Ballroom is the delightfully humane and moving musical based on the CBS television movie The Queen of the Stardust Ballroom which starred Maureen Stapleton as an aging widow who begins life anew at the Stardust Ballroom.
Start your evening off right with R&B singer and songwriter Eevan Tré, as part of La Quinta Museum's Music at the Museum free concert series.
Welcome to Margaritaville, where people come to get away from it all—and stay to find something they never expected. Escape to Margaritaville is the musical comedy featuring both original songs and your most-loved Jimmy Buffett classics, including “Fins,” “Volcano,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and many more.
Desert Ensemble Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Adoption Roulette based on a true account by the author of adopting a little girl from Russia. The couple soon finds themselves trapped in a story that has all the elements of a Hitchcock thriller.
Andrea Bernstein is the Peabody Award–winning cohost of the acclaimed WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc., which won the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University award. In addition to broadcast appearances on outlets including PBS NewsHour, CNN, and Fresh Air, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York, the Guardian, and on NPR.
Lance Burton, considered by his peers to be the greatest stage magician of the past century, brings a completely different show compared to the one he performs in Las Vegas. He's doing some of his favorite magic, big illusions, sleight of hand, audience participation, and bringing some of his friends with him.
Join the fun and celebrate because it’s Mardi Gras at The Shops On El Paseo. Enjoy live music, New Orleans inspired five-star food trucks, street performers and more. Dress in your Mardi Gras best, throw on some beads, don a Mardi Gras mask, and join us. This is a street celebration and carnival designed to indulge!
Join The Desert Sun and National Geographic Documentary Films for a free community screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary "The Cave". The movie tells the real-life story of an underground hospital and its female physicians in war-torn Syria, painting a stirring portrait of courage, resilience and female solidarity.
Goodwin’s ability to combine jazz excellence with any musical style makes his writing appealing to fans across the spectrum. That’s why both beboppers and headbangers dig Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band.
Entertainment icon Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy career took off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. Eight years later, he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to create what was to become the most successful comedy series in the history of television: Seinfeld.
Take a trip through Judy's lighthearted saga of Altos rising to the forefront of the Broadway musical world often dominated by Sopranos. This popular Chicago-based singer has hand picked these songs, some rare and some made famous from Broadway, cabaret, movies, and pop genres. With Joel Baker on piano.
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