
Palm Canyon Theatre
Once Upon a Time… a family from Kentucky who loved theatre and valued education visited the Coachella Valley, and realized, they could bring the joy of live stage productions to the area. Dr. William “Bill” Layne, his wife Sylvia, his son, J.W., and other members of their family submitted the winning proposal to the City of Palm Springs for how to repurpose the historic Frances S. Stevens School with a cultural, nonprofit organization. After extensive tenant renovations, the


Data and Community Theatre - A Six Part Series (Part 3)
Gathering Data How are you going to become a scientist, investigator and archaeologist to gather the important data you need? Maybe you already are! More great news: some of the data and research to support your projects or programs might already exist (in other words, someone else might have already done some of the broader science, investigations and archaeology. For example: there are numerous studies on the impact of youth involvement in theatre (or arts, or performing ar