JTSC and Theatre 29 Announce Auditions for Romeo & Juliet: A Mojave Reimagining

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Joshua Tree Shakespeare Company (JTSC), in partnership with Theatre 29, will hold auditions for its fall production, Romeo & Juliet: A Mojave Reimagining, a visually inventive new staging of Shakespeare’s timeless play set in the modern Mojave Desert.

The production marks a co-production between JTSC and Theatre 29, the Morongo Basin’s longest-running community theater. By combining Theatre 29’s deep roots in local performing arts with JTSC’s mission to make Shakespeare engaging and accessible, the collaboration brings together two organizations committed to creating ambitious, welcoming theater for Hi-Desert audiences and performers.

The production preserves Shakespeare’s original language while presenting the story through a fresh visual and interpretive lens. In this reimagining, Romeo and Juliet are former high school sweethearts who reconnect decades later. Now in middle age, they are given an unexpected second chance to rediscover one another and find themselves falling in love for the first time...again.

Auditions will be held Thursday, August 6, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Theatre 29 in Twentynine Palms.

Performances will be October 9th-11th and 16th-18th.