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*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
Wednesday, June 17 @ 5:30 - 7:30pm Written by Gazette Executive Editor, Harry Saltzgaver, The Annual Long Beach Political Players Radio Show proves to have the humor, wit, and self reference that makes it a must -see evening out. Attracting the political hard-hitters is easy when it is so much fun and for such a … Continue reading Political Players Radio Show
*Advisory: Adult content, language, nudity, and sexual situations. Viewer Discretion Advised Welcome to John’s life. Having taken a break from his relationship with his somewhat controlling boyfriend, John has managed to fall in love with someone else… a woman. In this edgy, raw, and witty look at a new kind of love triangle, Mike Bartlett … Continue reading Cock
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 tickets, click the $5 dollar presale discount option in the process of purchasing tickets.)
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
*Advisory: Adult content and sexual situations Playwright Joe Calarco says, “Just because Shakespeare understands the human condition, it doesn’t mean it can’t be a good time.” And so he takes the audience on a theatrical adventure of a lifetime, presenting a version of the well-known teen passion-fueled tragedy as an undercurrent to the emotional growth … Continue reading SHAKESPEARE’S R & J
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 tickets, click the $5 dollar presale discount option in the process of purchasing tickets.)
*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 tickets, click the $5 dollar presale discount option in the process of purchasing tickets.)
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
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