The Desert Scene

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Bonnie G. closes out this season of The Desert Scene by welcoming David Catanzarite , Founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Green Room Theatre Company . The company is a 501(c)3, which has produced many innovative projects in its fourteen-year existence bringing high quality theatre and education to desert communities. David talks about the organization’s recent move to Coachell...

Bonnie G. chats with actress/producer KItty Murray about the new venue for Aces . After a successful run at Oscar's, this very funny play about the beauty pageant biz opens at the Palm Springs Cultural Center for six Sunday matinees beginning May 14th. Written by Davis Gordon Gilbert and directed by soap opera veteran Judith Chapman , this comedy reveals what happens when five former beauty q...

On this episode of The Desert Scene ,  Bonnie G. welcomes Ron de Harte , President of Greater Palm Springs Pride . He tells us about the upcoming Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast , and Leadership Award winner Ricardo Lara . The breakfast honors Milk, who was the first openly gay elected official in California, who left a strong legacy of diversity and inclusion following his 1978 ass...

Bonnie G. welcomes back Los Angeles cabaret producer Clifford Bell . He's putting together a big event for Project Angel Food . It's the 25th anniversary of Our Name is Barbra . Several artists get together and celebrate Ms. Streisand's birthday by each singing something from her songbook. Past shows have featured many great performers including Ann Hampton Callaway, Melissa Manchester, and Sheryl...

Jerome Elliott returns to The Desert Scene with Bonnie G. on this episode. He just finished up a season at Desert Theatre Ensemble Company as Artistic Director. He stays busy this month as he performs his one-man cabaret show twice in May at the Palm Springs Cultural Center : Cocktails and Classics . In mid-May Elliott will be a guest performer in Razzle Dazzle , which is also at the Cultural Cent...

Bonnie G. speaks with Robert Koenig , the new Artistic Director for the Palm Springs International Piano Competition . Koenig talks about how the competition continues to evolve, including changing its name from the Virginia Waring Piano Competition . Their next big event is coming up in 2025. For more info, CLICK HERE .

Jeff Barnett , who will be the special guest host for the two May Razzle Dazzle shows happening at the Palm Springs Cultural Center , joins Bonnie G. He also hosts Movie Magic at the Cultural Center, which features fabulous movie theme songs over the past five decades. And, Jeff previews a special cabaret show he will perform with Charles Herrera in June at Feinstein's in San Francisco. For R...

On this episode of The Desert Scene ,  Bonnie G. chats with Jerry R. Soria-Foust , Artistic Director of the Palm Springs Gay Men's Chorus . Their spring concert, Notorious celebrates the music of leading ladies, divas, & sirens of the stage and screen. The show runs April 28, 29 and 30th at the Annenberg Theatre at the Palm Springs Art Museum, and features special...

Bonnie G. welcomes comedienne/author Beth Lapides , whose show It's a Lot is coming up at the Palm Springs Cultural Center on May 3rd. Beth Is the creator, host and executive producer of the legendary, long-running  UnCabaret . The show has been called "a progressive comedy institution." Beth is also the author of the original audio book So You Need to Decide, na...

The Desert Scene welcomes back Michael Shaw , Artistic Director of  Dezart Performs , who gives us details about their current production,  The Garbologists . The new comedy-drama by Lindsay Joelle is described as an "unconventional buddy comedy." It follows two sanitation workers - an African-American woman from a privileged background and a white "mansplainer"...

On this edition of The Desert Scene , Bonnie G . chats with actress/singer Dana Adkins , currently starring in Aces at Oscar's in Palm Springs. Dana shares stories of her own days competing in beauty pageants, and how her experience compared to the plot of Aces . The play takes a comic look at the reunion of 5 beauty queens, 35 years after they each won the crown. For tickets, CLICK HERE .

Bonnie G . welcomes Kirk Geiger , who along with his wife Noelle founded The Animal Rescue Center of California , based in the Eastern Coachella Valley. Since they began a few years ago, the organization has found forever-homes for 700 dogs and cats. Their first in-person fundraiser takes place on April 1st (no foolin’!) at Marvyn's Magic Theatre in La Quinta.

On this episode of the The Desert Scene , Bonnie G . talks with actress Kim Shroeber Long about her career and about Razzle Dazzle , the upcoming Broadway revue she's part of at the Palm Springs Cultural Center . Kim's journey has taken her from rural Ohio, to the Bay Area, to Pasadena, and now to the Desert Cities. Kim discusses how public television shaped her desire to become a musica...

Desert Arc's 13th Annual Golf Classic takes place on April 3rd at the Eagle Falls Golf Course and Fantasy Springs Resort Casino .  Bonnie G . chats with Desert Arc's President and CEO Richard Balocco about the event. He also gives us details about the work the organization does for valley residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  For more information, CLICK HERE .

Bonnie G . welcomes actress Suzie Wourms , appearing in Prepping For Widowhood , the latest offering from Script2Stage2Screen on March 24, 2023. This comedic play is about four women who have been friends since college and call themselves the Four Seasons , since each was born in a different season of the year. One is a widow, and the others are preparing for that probability. ...

Bonnie G. talks with Jeroen Sparreboom on this episode of The Desert Scene . He is co-chairing the 2nd Annual Mama’s House Charity Golf Classic & Dinner Show dubbed Oh, What a Night! It’s a musical tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons coming up on Friday, March 24. More information and tickets are available by visiting the website: CLICK HERE

Gina Zollman is a vocalist from Palm Springs and joins Bonnie G . on this episode of The Desert Scene . She talks about the upcoming special event where she will perform songs from her debut CD, Anywhere With You , at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood on March 22. The event will also feature two other local performers from the Coachella Valley. Tod Macofsky joins Gina for some duets, and Douglas...

In this episode of The Desert Scene , Bonnie G . chats with CV Rep 's Artistic Director Adam Karsten, who directed the theatre's current production of Once . The musical has been so well-received that the run has been extended. Karsten also gives us detail about future productions, and Puttin' On the Glitz - a gala fundraiser coming up later this month.  For more information, CLICK HERE .

Bonnie G. welcomes Jerome Elliott , Artistic Director of Desert Ensemble Theatre Company . He tells us about the company's upcoming World Premiere production of Kafka's Joke by Rich Rubin. This comedy recounts 120 years in the life (and afterlife) of writer Franz Kafka, who was a reluctant celebrity, and how the question of who owed his work ended up in the Israeli Supreme Court.&nb...

On this episode of The Desert Scene , Bonnie G. chats with stage and television actress Judith Chapman ( The Young and the Restless ), who is directing a new play called Aces , which opens at Oscar's March 9th. Six well-known valley actresses play aging beauty queens who gather for a reunion and are called upon to coach a young woman new to the pageant scene. The cham...

Bonnie G. welcomes Los Angeles based actress Aviva Pressman , who's starring in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City , the latest offering from Dezart Performs . Directed by Randy Brenner, it tells the story of two older female cancer patients who are sharing a hospital room....

Palm Springs event producer and public relations professional Jeff Hocker sits a spell with Bonnie G. on this episode of The Desert Scene to update us on happenings in the Coachella Valley. He previews the rest of the season for the Palm Springs Friends of the Philharmonic , and chats about the recent Palm Springs Health Run and Wellness Festival and tells us about Reforma , an exciting new r...

Bonnie G . welcomes Cheryl Scarlett , Director of Major Gifts and Fundraising for Jewish Family Service of the Desert . She tells us about an exciting fundraiser coming up on March 1st and 2nd. How Sweet It Is - The Music of Motown will take place at PS Underground - described as a dining experience you will never forget. The event honors Bea Keats and Jerry Fogelson with the JFS Humanit...

On this episode of The Desert Scene , Bonnie G. chats with actress Shirley LeMaster about her role in Script2Stage2Screen 's next production,  A Cozy Murder .