2024 saw an ever-widening variety of live productions in our Morongo Basin.
Theatre 29 brought “Man of La Mancha”, “Daddy LongLegs”, “Nunsense”, “MIS-CAST Goes to the Movies” “Seussical Kids & Jr” versions with their summer youth program, “Clue” “Musical Mischief” and the first annual 29 Queer Film Festival, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Sound of Music” as well as Rotating Players Improv workshops and shows with Thought Theatre staging a reading of “The Mountaintop” and “Musings of a Black Woman in a Brown Desert” encapsulating a very busy year.
The community theatre captured 30 Desert Star Awards nominations for their 2023-24 season, with wins for Gianni Caravella as Supporting Actor Youth Theatre for Disney’s Frozen Jr, Lead Actress in a Musical was Analisa Pilecki in Man of La Mancha, Best Lead Male Performer in a Cabaret/Revue went to Charles Harvey for Mis-Cast Goes To The Movies and Best Set Design for Andrea Keller for Man of La Mancha.
Thought Theatre’s Malcolm Stanley-Wolfe brought home a Best Supporting Actor – One Acts trophy for Shakespeare in Revue.
They also received 4 Desert Star Award nominations.
Theatre is alive and well in our basin and the best is yet to come.
