
Celebrating Palm Springs Pride 2026!
JURASSIC DRAG starring COCO PERU, JACKIE BEAT, SHERRY VINE and VARLA JEAN MERMAN | Kicking off Palm Springs Pride 2026!
Fri, 6 Nov, 7:00 PM PST
Doors open
5:30 PM PST
Palm Springs Cultural Center
2300 East Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Description
Brought to you straight from our laboratories deep in the Valley, JURASSIC DRAG returns to the desert to celebrate PALM SPRINGS PRIDE 2026 with the prehistoric dino-divas SHERRY VINE, JACKIE BEAT, COCO PERU, and VARLA JEAN MERMAN! Only at Palm Springs Cultural Center in Palm Springs, CA! Join us…
LIVE! SAT, MARCH 21ST at 7:00PM. Doors at 5:30PM.
Jurassic Drag is one-part musical spectacular and second-part old-fashioned variety show with one awe-inspiring surprise after another for audiences! “Dinosaurs DO still roam the earth,” “ stated a bewildered RuPaul’s Drag Race fan in reference to our divas, and these Dinosaurs are talented to boot!
After all, these dino-divas have survived a hostile world and trekked the earth collectively for more than 170 years… which we all know in drag time is 250 million years!
For that reason, we thought it valuable to gather them together, under one roof, because, let’s face it, folks, they’re all going to be extinct very soon!
Starring Sherry Vine, Jackie Beat, Coco Peru, and Varla Jean Merman, and hosted by an incredibly special guest, our Jurassic specimens will impress with stunning feats of song, dance, and um….comedy.
Get Your Tickets! $45-60, Artist Circle with Meet & Greet available. Online at www.PSCulturalCenter.org or TicketWeb.com
Palm Springs Cultural Center
2300 East Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Presented by Chris Isaacson Presents at Palm Springs Cultural Center!
Sponsored by The Dunes Hotel in Palm Springs! Visit DunesPS.com
The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers and artists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the official position or opinions of Chris Isaacson Presents or Palm Springs Cultural Center.
Event Information
Age Limit
All Ages
Comedy
Coco Peru
Coco Peru
Comedy

Comedy
Jackie Beat
Jackie Beat
Comedy
Drag superstar JACKIE BEAT has been entertaining audiences across the U.S. and in Europe for over TWENTY-FIVE YEARS with her razor-sharp comedy and hysterical song parodies. Jackie not only warps hits by Britney Spears, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Cher, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey and many others, but she flawlessly sings her twisted new versions LIVE — hitting every last note.
Her hilarious music videos on YouTube are huge hits that have been seen by millions of people. Her one-woman show “Jackie Beat Is A Whole Lotta’ Love” ran a record 18 months at NYC’s premiere cabaret, Fez, and she returns to The Big Apple every year with her award-winning, standing-room-only holiday show as part of her SOLD OUT national holiday tour. Jackie’s stand-up has been featured in comedy clubs across the country and on Comedy Central, VH-1 and MTV. Her scathing song parodies have been featured on America’s Top Forty with Ryan Seacrest, The Howard Stern Show, Much Music TV, Yo on E! and PerezHilton.com.
She has appeared on many TV shows such as “Sex and the City” and in several movies including “Flawless” with Robert DeNiro, the festival hit “Wigstock The Movie” and the camp cult horror favorite “Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver.” Jackie has also been in many off-Broadway productions, performed on countless cruises ships, toured with Roseanne Barr as her opening act (including a 7 week run at the New York New York in Las Vegas!), has enjoyed a sold-out 8-week run in Provincetown in summers past, and is lead singer of the popular electro-rock band Dirty Sanchez, who toured with My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. Their debut CD was released on Hypnotic Records and their music was featured on the campy NBC soap opera, “Passions.”
Jackie Beat is also a proud Writers Guild member who has worked on The WB sketch comedy show “Hype!,” the Sci-Fi Channel original series “Tripping The Rift,” E Entertainment TV’s “Fashion Police,” The HuluWeen Dragstravaganza and her very own series for OUTtv, “Dr. Jackie: Unlicensed Psychotherapist.” Jackie wrote for Roseanne Barr on her Comedy Central Roast, for host Kate Flannery on “Stand-up in Stilettos,” on Ross Mathews’ series “Hello Ross” for E and on both his bestselling books, “Man-Up!” & “Name Drop.” In addition, Jackie has written special material for the likes of Rosie O’Donnell, Margaret Cho, Sandra Bernhard, Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Coolidge, Elvira and more. Jackie has also written the plays “Double Wide Female,” “Scream Teen Scream!” and “Whatever Happened To Busty Jane?” along with quite a few brilliant (but ahead of their time?) motion picture screenplays and TV pilots. Jackie has also contributed to countless magazines, was a regular columnist for Frontiers Magazine and one of US Magazine’s Fashion Police top cops.
Jackie’s latest venture is impersonating her “spirit animal” — the one and only Bea Arthur — in both the stage version of The Golden Girlz Live (over 200 sold-out shows!) and as part of The MisMatch Game at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center to benefit homeless LGBT youth.
Jackie currently lives in beautiful Altadena, California with her furry children: Miss Toni & Darlin’.
Whether you’re looking for one or two show-stopping, jaw-dropping numbers — or a full ONE HOUR show of music and comedy — Jackie Beat is your “girl!"

Cabaret
Sherry Vine
Sherry Vine
Cabaret
With over 30 years under her sequined belt, Sherry Vine has earned the title of Drag Legend. Sherry tours the world with her all live singing, hilarious comedy shows, and is the star and writer of The Sherry Vine Variety Show (OUT Tv). Season 2 coming in May 2023! As well as, She’s Living For This (Amazon). She is a founding member of Theatre Couture, and is The OG YouTube Queen, where her video parodies have been viewed over 20,000,000 times.
Most recently, she produced and co-starred in Dr. Jackie (OUT Tv) and opened for Bianca del Rio across the USA, Europe and Tel Aviv. Sherry can be seen starring as “Blanche” in the Golden Girlz Live in LA.

Other Arts & Theater
Varla Jean Merman
Varla Jean Merman
Other Arts & Theater
Jeffery Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman starred in the new musical Lucky Guy opposite Leslie Jordan in NY at the Little Schubert in spring 2011 prompting The New York Times to rave, “If Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman had stood in front of the right pair of funhouse mirrors, they might have resembled Ms. Merman and Mr. Jordan in stature as well as comedic talent”. Jeffery recently completed shooting the feature film Girls Will Be Girls 2012 and Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads (now available on www.SethTV.com). He played the title role of Giancarlo Menotti’s opera The Medium in New York at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre in October of 2012.
He guest starred as Varla Jean on Ugly Betty in the final season of the show and was also featured on Bravo’s Project Runway Season 5 as the winning model for the show’s drag challenge. He played the role of Mary Sunshine in the revival of Chicago on Broadway and also made his network television debut on All My Children in the recurring role of lady of the evening Rosemary Chicken. He shared the Outfest Film Festival “Best Actor” Award and the Aspen HBO Film Festival “Best Actress” Award with his costars Jack Plotnick and Clinton Leupp for his featured performance in the cult classic film Girls Will Be Girls (Sundance 2003) directed by Richard Day.
Jeffery also appeared at the Long Wharf Theatre in Hartford Stage’s production of The Mystery of Irma Vep directed by Michael Wilson performing the roles originally made famous by Charles Ludlam. In 2010 Jeffery won an Elliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance in The Phantom of the OPRAH. He returned to Boston in the fall of 2011 to star as Mother Superior in SpeakEasy Stage’s production of The Divine Sister by Charles Busch.
As Varla Jean, Jeffery has filled cabarets and concert halls across the world including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the New York Public Theater, London’s Soho Theatre and LA’s Renberg Theatre. Jeffery wrote and starred in the short Improve Your History with Varla Jean: Stonewall, for the launch of the MTV’s television network Logo and was also seen in their One Night Standup: Dragtastic special.

Music
Chris Isaacson Presents
Chris Isaacson Presents
Music
Chris Isaacson Presents (CIP) has created, produced, and promoted over 1500 events since the company’s founding in 2004. From small clubs to major theatres, CIP has presented many of the most influential stars of this generation including Grammy, Tony, Emmy, and Academy Award-winning musicians, actors and recording artists.
Highlights include coordinating and producing an elaborate premiere celebrations for Emmy Award-winning series POSE (FX Networks) starring Billy Porter, Janet Mock and Our Lady J , Emmy Award-winning series Feud: Bette & Joan (FX Networks) starring Susan Sarandon, co-produced the Grammy Award-nominated "Considering Matthew Shepard" at Ford Theatres (earning CIP a proclamation from City of West Hollywood) with guests hosts Tim Bagley, Candis Cayne, & Joely Fisher, producing the West Coast charitable event GAIN: Brighter Futures starring Alisan Porter (winner of NBC’s The Voice) for Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, high-flying events for LA Pride, Rolling Stone, The Grove LA and Americana at Brand, serving as Producer on the critically acclaimed feature documentary Studio One Forever directed by Marc Saltarelli starring Thelma Houston, Chita Rivera, Melisa Rivers, Lance Bass, and Bruce Vilanch, and most recently, working with Dick and Arlene Van Dyke, and Tony Danza on "Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic" for CBS Television.
Isaacson returned to produce the 2023 Creative Business Awards ceremony in West Hollywood at The 1 Hotel honoring the Sunset Marquis Hotel, presented by West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. This event was hosted by Kate Flannery and Jackie Tohn with special presentations by Academy Award-winner Billy Bob Thornton.
Isaacson’s concerts have been featured on MTV, CNN, Access Hollywood, Extra, ABC's On the Red Carpet, KTLA Morning News, Good Day LA (Fox), and in the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and The New York Times.
He is committed to humanitarian and social causes including Ronald McDonald House Charities, Youth Emerging Stronger (Yes!), La Fuente Recovery, Entertainment Community Fund, and The Trevor Project.
For more information on upcoming CIP events, visit ChrislsaacsonPresents.com
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