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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.
URL:https://lbplayhouse.org/event/lbp-new-works-festival-2026/
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SUMMARY:POTUS
DESCRIPTION:POTUS\, or\, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive\nProduced by the Costa Mesa Playhouse in Collaboration with the Long Beach Playhouse\nPlaying in the Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theater\nApril 24 – May 23\, 2026\nBy Selina Fillinger\nDirected by Kathy Paladino\nOne four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the president unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis\, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life\, liberty\, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. A broad\, zany\, old-school comedy that earned three 2022 Tony nominations. Produced by the Costa Mesa Playhouse in Collaboration with the Long Beach Playhouse \nPURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE:\nCHOOSE YOUR DATE:\n\nFriday\, April 24\, 8pm – Preview\nSaturday\, April 25\, 8pm – Opening Night and Champagne Gala\nFriday\, May 1\, 8pm\nSaturday\, May 2\, 8pm\nSunday\, May 3\, 2pm\nFriday\, May 8\, 8pm\nSaturday\, May 9\, 8pm\nSunday\, May 10\, 2pm\nFriday\, May 15\, 8pm\nSaturday\, May 16\, 8pm\nSunday\, May 17\, 2pm\nFriday\, May 22\, 8pm\nSaturday\, May 23\, 8pm – Closing Night\n\nAGE LIMIT \nAs a courtesy to our patrons\, it is the policy of the theatre not to admit children under the age of 5. This policy may be altered from time to time based on shows and show content.
URL:https://lbplayhouse.org/event/potus/
CATEGORIES:Studio Theatre
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SUMMARY:KIMBERLY AKIMBO
DESCRIPTION:KIMBERLY AKIMBO\nPlaying in the Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theater\nJune 6 – July 3\, 2026\nBy David Lindsay-Abaire\nDirected by Michael Hovance\nIn this zany\, warmhearted comedy play that inspired the recent Tony Award winning musical\, Kimberly is a lonely 16-year-old girl suffering from a disease that causes her to age at more than four times the normal rate. Feeling trapped inside the frail physical body of an elderly woman\, Kim meets Jeff\, another young misfit at school\, and an uncertain relationship develops between them. Soon her life goes “akimbo\,” contending with a hypochondriac mother\, a rarely sober father\, a scam-artist aunt\, her own mortality\, and most terrifying of all\, the possibility of first love. KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a shrewd and strangely affecting comedy that’s a bit of youthful happiness unlike any other. \nPURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE:\nCHOOSE YOUR DATE:\n\nFriday\, June 5\, 8pm – Preview\nSaturday\, June 6\, 8pm – Opening Night and Champagne Gala\nFriday\, June 12\, 8pm\nSaturday\, June 13\, 8pm\nSunday\, June 14\, 2pm\nFriday\, June 19\, 8pm\nSaturday\, June 20\, 8pm\nSunday\, June 21\, 2pm\nFriday\, June 26\, 8pm\nSaturday\, June 27\, 8pm\nSunday\, June 28\, 2pm\nThursday\, July 2\, 8pm – Special Thursday Night Show\nFriday\, July 3\, 8pm – Closing Night\n\nAGE LIMIT\nAs a courtesy to our patrons\, it is the policy of the theatre not to admit children under the age of 5. This policy may be altered from time to time based on shows and show content.
URL:https://lbplayhouse.org/event/kimberly-akimbo/
CATEGORIES:Studio Theatre
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SUMMARY:A DOLL’S HOUSE\, PART 2
DESCRIPTION:A DOLL’S HOUSE\, PART 2\nPlaying in the Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theater\nJuly 18 – Aug. 15\, 2026\nBy Lucas Hnath\nDirected by Phyllis Gitlin\nFifteen years ago\, Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life\, leaving behind her husband and children for a life unknown.  Now she is knocking at that same door\, having returned with an urgent request for her former husband. Before Nora can get what she needs\, she must reckon with the people she left\, all of whom have some choice words for the former Mrs. Helmer. A DOLL’S HOUSE\, PART 2 is a funny\, probing\, and bold new comedy/drama that is at once a continuation of Ibsen’s play and a heartfelt meditation on how far we’ve come in the century and a quarter since. \nPURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE:\nCHOOSE YOUR DATE:\n\nFriday\, July 17\, 8pm – Preview\nSaturday\, July 18\, 8pm – Opening Night and Champagne Gala\nFriday\, July 24\, 8pm\nSaturday\, July 25\, 8pm\nSunday\, July 26\, 2pm\nFriday\, July 31\, 8pm\nSaturday\, August 1\, 8pm\nSunday\, August 2\, 2pm\nFriday\, August 7\, 8pm\nSaturday\, August 8\, 8pm\nSunday\, August 9\, 2pm\nFriday\, August 14\, 8pm\nSaturday\, August 15\, 8pm – Closing Night\n\nAGE LIMIT\nAs a courtesy to our patrons\, it is the policy of the theatre not to admit children under the age of 5. This policy may be altered from time to time based on shows and show content.
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CATEGORIES:Studio Theatre
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SUMMARY:HANGMEN
DESCRIPTION:HANGMEN\nPlaying in the Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theater\nAug. 29 – Sept. 26\, 2026\nBy Martin McDonagh\nDirected by Carl DaSilva\nIn his small pub in Oldham\, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what’s the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they’ve abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars dying to hear Harry’s reaction to the news\, a peculiar stranger lurks\, with a very different motive for his visit. Martin McDonagh does it again in HANGMEN\, a corrosively funny black comedy filled with dramatic tension in a juicy tale of capital punishment that will leave you “hanging” on the edge of your seat with suspense and devilish delight. \nPURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE:\nCHOOSE YOUR DATE:\n\nFriday\, August 28\, 8pm – Preview\nSaturday\, August 29\, 8pm – Opening Night and Champagne Gala\nFriday\, September 4\, 8pm\nSaturday\, September 5\, 8pm\nSunday\, September 6\, 2pm\nFriday\, September 11\, 8pm\nSaturday\, September 12\, 8pm\nSunday\, September 13\, 2pm\nFriday\, September 18\, 8pm\nSaturday\, September 19\, 8pm\nSunday\, September 20\, 2pm\nFriday\, September 25\, 8pm\nSaturday\, September 26\, 8pm – Closing Night\n\nAGE LIMIT\nAs a courtesy to our patrons\, it is the policy of the theatre not to admit children under the age of 5. This policy may be altered from time to time based on shows and show content.
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SUMMARY:REEFER MADNESS: The Musical
DESCRIPTION:REEFER MADNESS: The Musical\nPlaying in the Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theater\nOct. 10 – Nov. 15\, 2026\nMusic and Book by Dan Studney\, Lyrics and Book by Kevin Murphy\nDirected by Rovin Jay\nChoreographed by Sonya Randall\nMusical Direction by Stephen Olear\nAn unlikely musical comedy inspired by an earnest 1936 public service film of the same name\, this raucous spoof takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana\, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music\, sex and violence. You won’t be able to resist the goofy charm of REEFER MADNESS\, an addictive\, hilarious\, and highly stylized musical romp with a sly satirical political commentary that will leave you wanting more. \nPURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE:\nCHOOSE YOUR DATE:\n\nFriday\, October 9\, 8pm – Preview\nSaturday\, October 10\, 8pm – Opening Night and Champagne Gala\nFriday\, October 16\, 8pm\nSaturday\, October 17\, 8pm\nSunday\, October 18\, 2pm\nFriday\, October 23\, 8pm\nSaturday\, October 24\, 8pm\nSunday\, October 25\, 2pm\nFriday\, October 30\, 8pm\nSaturday\, October 31\, 8pm\nSunday\, November 1\, 2pm\nFriday\, November 6\, 8pm\nSaturday\, November 7\, 8pm\nSunday\, November 8\, 2pm\nFriday\, November 13\, 8pm\nSaturday\, November 14\, 8pm\nSunday\, November 15\, 8pm – Closing\n\nAGE LIMIT\nAs a courtesy to our patrons\, it is the policy of the theatre not to admit children under the age of 5. This policy may be altered from time to time based on shows and show content.
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