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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

COLLABORATIVE: A MIRACLE ON ANAHEIM ST

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

UPPERCLASSMEN HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR

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

TALES FROM THE PLAYHOUSE

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 STAFF AND FRIENDS CABARET

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!

YOUTH DEVISED THEATRE: SAVING HARTOPIA

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