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TROJAN WOMEN: A Love Story

The LBP Studio Collaborative Season offers outside, local theatre companies and performing arts organizations the opportunity to produce their own shows in our Studio Theater. TROJAN WOMEN: A Love Story Company: Alchemy Theatre Company Tickets: $20 DESCRIPTION: Fusing elements of Euripides’s Greek tragedy, high art, and pop culture, playwright Charles Mee examines the aftermath of the … Continue reading TROJAN WOMEN: A Love Story

LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2018

LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2018 Company: LBP New Works Committee producing Tickets: $10 DESCRIPTION: 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 staged reading with critical feedback from professional theatre critics and audience talk … Continue reading LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2018

CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY

From the fertile mind of Lynn Nottage who brought us the popular By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, comes this timeless tale of a family’s struggles in 1950s America.  The Crump family, having recently lost their mother, moves from Florida to Brooklyn in search of a better life.  As they struggle to rebuild, they are … Continue reading CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY

LOVE/SICK

Set on a Friday night in an alternate suburban reality,  the writer of Almost, Maine, John Cariani, brings us an evening of nine bittersweet romantic comedies. Simultaneously hilarious and heart-wrenching, these vignettes provide the audience with the full spectrum of being in love, exploring the joy and the pain surrounding relationships ranging from first meetings … Continue reading LOVE/SICK

THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAY

Based on the true story of two actors who hired themselves out to the Long Beach Police Department in 1914 to entrap “social vagrants” in public restrooms, this highly theatrical tour-de-force brings to life a little known episode in Long Beach history and the history of LGBTQ rights.  As these two actors become absorbed within … Continue reading THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAY

THE TEMPEST

Trickery, romance, and revenge set the stage for one of Shakespeare’s late masterpieces, in which sprites, goddesses, monsters, and fools hold court. In this fanciful classic that is often described as the darker twin to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a deposed noble turned sorcerer uses powerful magic to raise a great storm, shipwrecking the vessel … Continue reading THE TEMPEST

Stephen Sondheim’s ASSASSINS

What’s the outcome when The American Dream of success, celebrity, and free speech becomes warped in a madman’s mind?  In this highly thought-provoking musical, musical genius Stephen Sondheim and playwright John Weidman bend time and space to allow the nation’s nine successful and would-be assassins to meet, interact, and inspire each other to try to … Continue reading Stephen Sondheim’s ASSASSINS

MIRACLE ON ANAHEIM STREET

The Studio Collaborative: MIRACLE ON ANAHEIM STREET Company: Held2Gether & LBP Dec. 1 @ 8pm, 2018.  Tickets: $20 Description:  Long Beach Playhouse and Held2gether, Improv for Life are teaming up for the 4th Annual "Miracle on Anaheim Street", a holiday variety to show to benefit the WomenShelter of Long Beach.  Long Beach's premiere comedy troupe, … Continue reading MIRACLE ON ANAHEIM STREET

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

The Studio Collaborative: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Company: Alethia Theater Dec. 6, 7, 8, 13 @ 8pm, Dec. 9 @ 2pm 2018. Tickets: $15 Description: One Christmas Eve, an angel desiring to earn her wings stops George Bailey before he jumps off a bridge and walks with him from childhood to this moment in time. Together, they … Continue reading IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

HEROES OF THE WEST

The Studio Collaborative: HEROES OF THE WEST Company: Up & Coming Actors Dates: Jan. 11 & 12 @ 8pm, Jan. 13 @ 2pm, 2019 Tickets:  $15 Description:  HEROES OF THE WEST is a campy, feminist comedy that revolves around protagonists Betsy and Daisy. The two young women become apprentices to the town hero Hank, who … Continue reading HEROES OF THE WEST

LOOKING UPON VENUS/ BLACK PHOENIX

The Studio Collaborative: LOOKING UPON VENUS/BLACK PHOENIX Company: The CRayProject Dates: Jan. 18 & 19 @ 8pm, 2019 Tickets:  $15 Description: “Looking Upon Venus/Black Phoenix” is an evening length production; exploring the beauty, soul and essences of the black WOMAN and “BLACK MALE EXCELLENCE”. A great representation of beauty, strength and resilience while unfolding all … Continue reading LOOKING UPON VENUS/ BLACK PHOENIX