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*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
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 these societal outcasts face an even more uncertain future than the one they currently awaken to on a daily basis. As we become part of … Continue reading THE HOT L BALTIMORE
*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
The Upperclassmen come to the Long Beach Playhouse for another year of comedy and improv! Playing in the Studio theater. Tickets are $5.00 presale*, $10.00 at the door. (For online … Continue reading The Upperclassmen
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 actress wife, Judith, escape to the country hoping for a quiet escape from their hectic lives, only to find their grown children dashing their hopes … Continue reading HAY FEVER
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
As a native of the golden state, Greg Fritsche has always been inspired by the unique variety and boundless beauty of the California landscape. His passion for painting is largely … Continue reading Greg Fritsche Landscape Artist
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
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 of Christmases past, present and future show Ebenezer Scrooge the poverty of his material wealth and the blessings that come with generosity. Can they convince … Continue reading A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2015)
The Upperclassmen come to the Long Beach Playhouse for another year of comedy and improv! Playing in the Studio theater. Tickets are $5.00 presale*, $10.00 at the door. (For online … Continue reading The Upperclassmen
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
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
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