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  • "Audience Favorite" Award

    5th Annual Play Reading Series

    The audience has spoken and Dezart Performs is proud to announce the Audience Favorite from this year's Annual Play Reading Series. How did you vote?

  

Past Events

  • Fifth Annual Play Reading Series

    Fridays and Saturdays
    April 12-13, 19-20 - 7:30 PM

    Dezart Performs' Fifth Annual Play Reading Series presents a selection of original works for the stage during this four-night event. Audiences cast their vote for the "Series Favorite," to be fully produced for our 2013-14 Season.

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  • THE MATING GAMES - 3 Hilarious One-Acts Guaranteed to Tickle Your Funny Bone!

    November 29-December 9 at 7:30 PM

    Dezart Performs presents the winners of the 4th Annual Play Reading Series in an evening of one-act comedies including "Feeding Time at the Human House," "The Blind Date" and "Mourning Glory."

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  • 8 THE PLAY - Making the Case for Marriage Equality

    Friday & Saturday, November 9-10 - 7:30 PM

    UCR-Palm Desert Center, 75080 Frank Sinatra Drive

    A co-production of Dezart Performs and Script2Stage2Screen, take a peek inside the trial of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal court case for marriage for gay and lesbian Americans.

    "8 is the real-life story of Kris & Sandy and Paul & Jeff, two loving couples who want to get married but can't. Together with attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson and a host of expert witnesses, they take aim at Proposition 8, a discriminatory law that took away the right for LGBT couples to marry in California in 2008.

    Written by Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar), "8 is based on the actual words of the Perry trial transcripts, first-hand observations of the courtroom drama and interviews with the plaintiffs and their families.

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  • LOVE LETTERS - A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE

    ONE NIGHT ONLY! Saturday, October 20 - 7:30 PM
    Palm Springs Woman's Club - 314 S Cahuilla Road

    Dezart Performs presents A.R. Gurney's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play starring Donna Pescow and Robert Hays. This special evening is co-sponsored by the VICEROY Palm Springs and includes a champagne and dessert reception catered by Palm Springs' very own TRIO Restaurant.

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