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In a new dramatic comedy from Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Lynn Nottage, this funny yet thoughtful play draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take an insightful look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood. Based on a true story, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark is a journey through the life of an African-American maid … Continue reading By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
*Advisory: Mature content and language Willy Loman has become the quintessential image of the traveling salesman, forever chasing his dream of success, but always falling short of true contentment and happiness. Presented in a series of dreamlike flashbacks, we see the failing philosophy of Willy’s life, even as he stubbornly hangs onto the need to be … Continue reading Death of a Salesman
Jesus Christ, the world’s first superstar! This thrilling rock-opera takes a sometimes irreverent, always impassioned, look at Jesus’ last days. As Judas begins to question the motivations and methods of his friend and mentor, emotion and true belief is put to the test. Propelled by a stirring score by the creators of Phantom of the … Continue reading Jesus Christ Superstar
In this comedic drama from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Lanford Wilson, we meet the residents of a run-down hotel facing eviction. The hotel is about to be condemned and … Continue reading THE HOT L BALTIMORE
In this farcical comedy of manners, Noel Coward displays his talent for word-play as a quiet weekend getaway turns into a battlefield of intellectual warfare. Novelist David Bliss and his … Continue reading HAY FEVER
Returning for its fourth incarnation at Long Beach Playhouse, this quick-paced, highly theatrical re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic tale will delight the entire family. In 19th century England, the ghosts … Continue reading A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2015)
Possibly Agatha Christie’s greatest play, The Mousetrap is a spine-tingling who-dunnit with all the classic earmarks you’ve come to expect from the “Queen of Mystery” - a group of strangers … Continue reading THE MOUSETRAP
Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon … Continue reading PYGMALION
Hop aboard Phileas Fogg’s hot-air balloon as a small troupe of actors takes on a global collection of unforgettable characters in this imaginative and theatrical re-imagining of Jules Verne’s classic adventure. Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Unabashed slapstick! Join fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant as they race to travel the globe … Continue reading AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
When the family patriarch dies, a poor African-American family living on Chicago’s South Side, must decide what to do with the soon-to-arrive insurance settlement. Should it be used to establish a liquor store, as son Walter Lee plans to do, hopefully moving the family out of poverty? Or should his mother’s religious objections to alcohol … Continue reading A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Director: Anthony Galleran Musical Director: Bill Wolfe Choreographer: Tanya Thompson Join J. Pierrepont Finch as he meteorically rises from lowly window washer to high-powered executive in this rousing musical satire – featuring such familiar hits as “I Believe in You” and “Brotherhood of Man.” When Finch follows the teaching of his business success handbook, he … Continue reading HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS (WITHOUT REALLY TRYING)
Perhaps the most famous and popular of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, this gripping tale deals with the curse of the Baskerville family—and the fiendish killer-hound which stalks its members. As the action begins Sir Charles Baskerville has died under mysterious circumstances, and his nephew and heir, the young Sir Henry, has been threatened even before … Continue reading THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
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