LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2025

The Studio Collaborative:

LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2025

Company: LBP New Works Committee producing

Dates: Mar. 28 & 29 @ 7pm, 2025

Tickets: Free. 

Seats need to be reserved by clicking the date below for a 50 Cents Service Fee or calling our box office at 562-494-1014 option 1 

No Service Fee if reserving seats over the phone or in person.

THE WINNING SHOWS:

Non-Local Winner: THE ONE GOOD THING OR “ARE YOU PATRICK SWAYZE?”  by Joe Bravaco

Local Winner: JUDGEMENT OF THE EYE by Simon Bowler

RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE

CHOOSE YOUR DATE:

• THE ONE GOOD THING – Friday, Mar. 28, 2025 at 7pm – Non-Local Winner
• JUDGEMENT OF THE EYE – Saturday, Mar. 29, 2025 at 7pm – Local Winner

All Collaborative Shows do not have assigned seating, so it is first come, first serve.

PLEASE NOTE: The Studio Theater is on the 2nd Floor. Due to the age of our building, there is no elevator and the theater is only accessible by stairs.

Description of the Festival: 

The annual festival nurtures emerging and established playwrights to develop new scripts. Reading 100+ scripts a year, the New Works Literary Committee chooses two top plays to receive a stage reading with critical feedback from professional theatre critics and an audience talk back.

About the Shows:

THE ONE GOOD THING OR “ARE YOU PATRICK SWAYZE?” – Brothers Jamie and Tommy share a remote farmhouse on the cliffs of the Irish Sea. One morning Jamie makes an astonishing declaration. He announces that he is dead – and now a ghost. Tommy, naturally, is unconvinced, maintaining that his brother’s delusion is caused by the grief Jamie has suffered since their mother’s death. Through humor and pathos, the play explores themes of love, loss, and redemption, culminating in the discovery that the eternal exists in their fraternal bond. The One Good Thing… should fuel speculation about what is real and what is imaginary. However, ultimately, it should touch the heart.

Written by Joe Bravaco

JUDGEMENT OF THE EYE – Han Van Meegeren, a struggling Dutch artist, realizes his skill is forgeries and sell millions of dollars of fake art. When Germany invades, the SS compel him to sell paintings to Goering, and he makes millions more. At the end of the war, he is accused of selling national treasure to the enemy and is to be executed. He claims the paintings are fakes and to prove it he will paint another. His story exposes the contradictions of how we perceive and value art, in a tale so absurd, and with a character so flawed, it can only be true.

Written by Simon Bowler

FREE TICKETS TO THE NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2025 ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS SPONSORSHIP FROM THE PORT OF LONG BEACH.