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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
*Note: This production contains mature content, nudity, explicit sexual situations, and violence - parental discretion advised. Marat/Sade or The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade by Peter Weiss Director: Andrew Vonderschmitt Movement Director: Brian Bozanich Music Director: Stephen … Continue reading MARAT/SADE
reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute *Note: This production contains mature content – parental discretion advised. In this modern love story about the impossibly difficult challenges of being a loving couple, we are introduced to two young adults whose relationship is threatened by a slip of the tongue. When Greg is overheard explaining that he loves … Continue reading REASONS TO BE PRETTY
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde, Adapted for an all Woman Cast This classic satire is brought to new life in this all-woman production, as the female sensibilities of the performers bring new light to the gender stereotypes so crucial to the convoluted machinations of this comedy of manners. Fast, funny, and entirely female, … Continue reading THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (All Women Cast)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler Director: Sean F. Gray Music Director: Stephen Olear Choreographer: Halley Hardy Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant foray into bloodlust and revenge is being given an intimately terrifying and darkly humorous re-telling in the Studio Theatre. The infamous … Continue reading SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
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