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LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL: The Studio Collaborative Season

The Long Beach Playhouse presents: LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL Suggested donation: $10 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.   … Continue reading LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL: The Studio Collaborative Season

LBP NWF WORKSHOP PRODUCTION: CHILDREN OF CAMELOT

The Long Beach Playhouse presents: LBP NWF WORKSHOP PRODUCTION: CHILDREN OF CAMELOT Tickets: $5.00 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 … Continue reading LBP NWF WORKSHOP PRODUCTION: CHILDREN OF CAMELOT

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

*Advisory: Adult content and language Within war-torn Baghdad, lives a tiger – a wild, captive beast within a man-made cage.  Through the power of theatrical imagination, we are allowed a peek inside the mind of this quick-witted and well-spoken “animal,” as the lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by … Continue reading Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Cock

*Advisory: Adult content, language, nudity, and sexual situations. Viewer Discretion Advised Welcome to John’s life.  Having taken a break from his relationship with his somewhat controlling boyfriend, John has managed to fall in love with someone else… a woman.  In this edgy, raw, and witty look at a new kind of love triangle, Mike Bartlett … Continue reading Cock

SHAKESPEARE’S R & J

*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

Psycho Beach Party

*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

BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL

*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