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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 … Continue reading LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2018
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 … Continue reading CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY
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, … Continue reading LOVE/SICK
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Studio Collaborative: FISTFUL OF IMPROV: A COMEDY IMPROV SHOW Company: Fistful of Improv Dates: Jan. 26 @ 8pm, 2019 Tickets: $7 Description: Born and bred on the streets of Long Beach, A Fistful Of Improv, have been regularly performing together for 7 years. Using the parameters of the show “Who’s Line is it anyway?”, … Continue reading FISTFUL OF IMPROV: A COMEDY IMPROV SHOW
The Studio Collaborative: BRAVO COMPANY’S IMPROV FOR WARRIORS TOUR Company: Bravo Campany Dates: Feb. 9 @ 8pm, 2019 Tickets: $15 Description: Show your support for the men and women of United States armed forces by joining Bravo Company for an evening of improv comedy. All proceeds will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project. Company … Continue reading BRAVO COMPANY’S IMPROV FOR WARRIORS TOUR
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