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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 tickets, click the $5 dollar presale discount option in the process of purchasing tickets.)
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 stranded in a boarding house, a series of murders, a mysterious (and very perceptive) policeman. Who might be the killer? The newlyweds? The spinster with … Continue reading THE MOUSETRAP
The Long Beach Playhouse Presents: STAFF AND FRIENDS CABARET Ticket Price: $10 We like to have fun too! Just because we’re the one’s running the show doesn’t mean we don’t like getting onstage once in a while. Come have fun with us and we’ll be sure to make fools of ourselves for your amusement!
Homeland Cultural Center and LBP Present: YOUTH DEVISED THEATRE Ticket Price: $5 In association with Long Beach Playhouse and a collaboration with the Homeland Cultural Center, this devised work is an attempt to tell the stories of the youth of Long Beach using theatre, movement, poetry, and music. Saving Hartopia Written by Adanna Kenlow and … Continue reading YOUTH DEVISED THEATRE: SAVING HARTOPIA
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.)
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. Held2gether Presents: IN SKETCH WE TRUST Tickets: $15 Where can you turn in today's unreliable, chaotic world? To Sketch, of course! Held2gether performs a dozen deliciously original comedic sketches, guaranteed … Continue reading IN SKETCH WE TRUST
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
The Long Beach Playhouse Presents: NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2016 Tickets: $10.00 The annual festival nurtures emerging and established playwrights to develop new scripts. Reading 100+ scripts a year, the New Works Literary Committee chooses three top plays to receive a staged reading with critical feedback from professional theatre critics and audience talk back. April … Continue reading LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2016
The Long Beach Playhouse Presents: NWF WORKSHOP PRODUCTION 2016 Tickets: $10.00 The Workshop Production helps to bring a winning script to the next level. One play from the preceding year’s festival is chosen for a workshop performance in which the playwright, director, and cast all work together to make this the best script possible, therefore … Continue reading LBP NWF WORKSHOP PRODUCTION 2016
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
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