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SUMMARY:LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Studio Collaborative: LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2026\nCompany: LBP New Works Committee producing\nDates: Mar. 27 & 28 @ 7pm\, 2026\nTickets: Free.  \nSeats need to be reserved by clicking the date below for a 50 Cent Service Fee or calling our box office at 562-494-1014 option 1   \nNo Service Fee if reserving seats over the phone or in person. \nTHE WINNING SHOWS:\nNon-Local Winner: AS WE LIKE IT  by Oded Gross\nLocal Winner: WOLVES AT THE DOOR by Ali MacLean\n  \nRESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE\nCHOOSE YOUR DATE:\n\nNon-Local Winner: AS WE LIKE IT – Friday\, Mar. 27\, 2026 at 7pm – Talk Back After\nLocal Winner: WOLVES AT THE DOOR – Saturday\, Mar. 28\, 2026 at 7pm – Talk Back After\n\nThis Collaborative Show does not have assigned seating\, so it is first come\, first serve. \nPLEASE NOTE: The Studio Theater is on the 2nd Floor. Due to the age of our building\, there is no elevator and the theater is only accessible by stairs. \n  \nDescription of the Festival: \nThis 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 stage reading with critical feedback from professional theatre critics and an audience talk back. \nAbout the Shows:\nAS WE LIKE IT follows the story of a woman named Rose\, who tries to motivate her family to rehearse in the serenity and privacy of the woods a production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It to be performed at the wedding of the Duke and his betrothed\, the Fairy Queen. The only problem is there is no Fairy Queen. There is no Duke. They are not in a serene forest. This Midsummer Night’s / As You Like It delusion is Rose’s shield against a brutal reality she doesn’t wish to confront — she and her family are in hiding from the Nazis in the grim forests of Poland during World War 2. Her theatrical fantasy is a shield against unbearable reality\, but her family fears her delusion may get them killed. The play explores the danger and necessity of self-made fictions and asks when stories protect us and when they put everything at risk. \nWritten Oded Gross \nWOLVES AT THE DOOR follows Grace and Gavin\, who lost their daughter\, Lucy\, to gun violence. The gunman committed a mass shooting in an ‘incel’ styled revenge plot. Lucy\, at a dance class nearby\, was collateral damage. While grieving\, Grace is bombarded by a stream of visitors\, all who seem to want to exploit her in some manner. Meanwhile\, she and Gavin grapple with their own relationship woes\, as one of them wants to heal and one isn’t ready to move on. The play flips back and forth from the past where we see what set the shooter on his path\, and the present where Grace tries to come to terms with the aftermath. \nWritten by Ali MacLean \nFREE TICKETS TO THE NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2026 ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS SPONSORSHIP FROM THE PORT OF LONG BEACH.
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