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*Advisory: Adult content and sexual situations Playwright Joe Calarco says, “Just because Shakespeare understands the human condition, it doesn’t mean it can’t be a good time.” And so he takes the audience on a theatrical adventure of a lifetime, presenting a version of the well-known teen passion-fueled tragedy as an undercurrent to the emotional growth … Continue reading SHAKESPEARE’S R & J
*Advisory: Adult content and language Gidget, beach blankets, and Hitchcockian psychological suspense thrillers are tossed around in the comic mind of playwright Charles Busch and they emerge as a rollickingly wild ride through split personalities, weird attacks, and the challenges of finding your true surf-buddy. Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part … Continue reading Psycho Beach Party
*Advisory: Adult content and language Based on a series of tabloid reports, BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL is a musical comedy/horror show about a hybrid creature discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia. Taken in by a local veterinarian, he is taught to act like a "normal" boy. All seems hopeful until Bat Boy … Continue reading BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
Held2gether and The Long Beach Playhouse team up to benefit the WomenShelter of Long Beach. Join award-winning improv troupe Held2gether for an for an unscripted holiday celebration! Part variety show, part soap opera, all hilarious. 100% of proceeds go to WomenShelter of Long Beach, who assists victims and their children by providing safe shelter and … Continue reading COLLABORATIVE: A MIRACLE ON ANAHEIM ST
The LBP Collaborative Season offers outside theatre companies and other performing arts organizations in our community the opportunity to produce their own productions in our Studio Theater. Upperclassmen Presents: UPPERCLASSMEN HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR Ticket Price: $10 Good humor slips the bonds of good taste in the annual Upperclassmen Holiday Spectacular, a debaucherous evening of improv comedy where you … Continue reading UPPERCLASSMEN HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR
The Long Beach Playhouse Presents: TALES FROM THE PLAYHOUSE Produced by Jane Nunn Tickets: $20.00 Join the Staff of the Long Beach Playhouse as they explore the history of this venerable institution from its inception in 1929 to the current model. Through a Staged reading of an historical play created and adapted by the Historical … Continue reading TALES FROM THE PLAYHOUSE
The Long Beach Playhouse Presents: STAFF AND FRIENDS CABARET Ticket Price: $10 We like to have fun too! Just because we’re the one’s running the show doesn’t mean we don’t like getting onstage once in a while. Come have fun with us and we’ll be sure to make fools of ourselves for your amusement!
Homeland Cultural Center and LBP Present: YOUTH DEVISED THEATRE Ticket Price: $5 In association with Long Beach Playhouse and a collaboration with the Homeland Cultural Center, this devised work is an attempt to tell the stories of the youth of Long Beach using theatre, movement, poetry, and music. Saving Hartopia Written by Adanna Kenlow and … Continue reading YOUTH DEVISED THEATRE: SAVING HARTOPIA
The LBP Collaborative Season offers outside theatre companies and other performing arts organizations in our community the opportunity to produce their own productions in our Studio Theater. Held2gether Presents: IN SKETCH WE TRUST Tickets: $15 Where can you turn in today's unreliable, chaotic world? To Sketch, of course! Held2gether performs a dozen deliciously original comedic sketches, guaranteed … Continue reading IN SKETCH WE TRUST
The Long Beach Playhouse Presents: NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2016 Tickets: $10.00 The annual festival nurtures emerging and established playwrights to develop new scripts. Reading 100+ scripts a year, the New Works Literary Committee chooses three top plays to receive a staged reading with critical feedback from professional theatre critics and audience talk back. April … Continue reading LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2016
The Long Beach Playhouse Presents: NWF WORKSHOP PRODUCTION 2016 Tickets: $10.00 The Workshop Production helps to bring a winning script to the next level. One play from the preceding year’s festival is chosen for a workshop performance in which the playwright, director, and cast all work together to make this the best script possible, therefore … Continue reading LBP NWF WORKSHOP PRODUCTION 2016
*Advisory: Full frontal nudity, sexual situations. Lust, power struggles, and loyalty test both genders in this raucous trip into the past, proving some issues never change - war or love, which wins? what’s the only way to keep men from going to war? Well, in ancient Greece, a young lady named Lysistrata devises a … Continue reading LYSISTRATA
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