PALM SPRINGS

About the show

Arnaud has left his job, his husband, changed his phone number, and hit the road for one final weekend in Palm Springs, where years ago, he first learned to embrace his queerness. He’s planning a solitary escape to reckon with some life-changing news. But when he meets Nicholas, being alone is no longer in the cards. Over the course of one unforgettable night, the guest list keeps growing as a constellation of strangers transforms Arnaud’s evening into something wilder, more intimate, more risqué and more unexpected than he ever could have imagined. Together, they’re determined to show him it’s never too late to strut and take up space in a way he never allowed himself to before. With a gift for creating characters “drawn with empathy and humor” (The New York Times), playwright Jeff Augustin brings gleeful irreverence and fearless honesty to a story about the plans we make, the lives we actually live, and what happens when the two spectacularly collide. Reuniting Augustin with director Joshua Kahan Brody a decade after their Playhouse premiere of The Last Tiger in Haiti, Palm Springs is an audacious celebration of desire, the unexpected ways we find one another, and the joy of showing up as your fullest self.