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Tag Archives: 2016-17 Collaborative Season

LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL

Company: LBP, Anna Kate Mohler producing

Dates: March 31 &  April 1 @ 8pm

Tickets: $10.00

Description:

The 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 staged reading with critical feedback from professional theatre critics and audience talk back.

THE WINNING SHOWS:

THE OTHER GENIUS a farce by Steven Haworth
Stage Reading: Saturday, April, 1st at 8pm

Reading directed by David Anis

Cast List:

Will Jorge (Jameson)

Laura Clagett (Fiona)

Derek Bulger (David)

Loren Bowen (Ariana)

Bradley Roa (Darko)

Chelsea Anna (Tamazawa)

Jameson, a student at a local community college is obsessed with Fiona, his childhood au pair who is now his Psychology 101 professor, who is in love with David, a wealthy and powerful genius business man who also happens to be Jameson’s father. Jameson finds out about his father and Fiona’s love affair, and while in the process of breaking them up, is confronted with his past. Plot twist after plot twist sends Jameson on a wild journey, revealing truths that he could not have imagined in his wildest dreams.

ON A RAW MOOSE DAY by Alan Goodson
Stage Reading: Friday, March 31st at 8pm

Reading directed by Chris Mertan

Cast List:

Bob Fetes (Max Leviathan)

Larry Adler (Andrew Folger)

Loren Bowen (Judy Leviathan)

Alec Malczynski (Jimmy Spiegel)

Jane Nunn (Margie Leviathan)

In this meta-theatrical farce, a character in a play realizes that he is an actor playing a character in a play and that the world around him, his words and actions have all been predetermined by a playwright. His sanity comes into question when he tries to convince the other charactrs of this revelation. With fascinating twists and turns, truth and reality become blurry, challenging the viewer’s perceptions.

Produced by Anna Kate Mohler

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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.

SKETCHILY EVER AFTER

Company: Held2Gether

Dates: March 10, 11, 17, 18 @ 8pm

Tickets: $15

Description:

Once upon a time….a whole bunch of dysfunctional characters put on a sketch show.  You won’t want to miss these valuable life lessons as Held2gether, Improv for LIfe performs dozen deliciously original comedic sketches.

Produced by Held2Gether

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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.

BEYOND THERAPY

Company: Rick Reischman Productions

Dates: Feb 24, 25 @ 8pm, 26 @ 2pm, March 3, 4 @ 8pm, 5 @ 2pm

Single Tickets: $20.00

Description:

Bruce and Prudence meet on a blind date.  They are both a little crazy, but their therapists may be crazier than they are.  If that weren’t enough, Bruce has a male lover, Bob, who is not happy about the whole situation.  Can Bruce and Prudence find love beyond therapy?

Produced by Rick Reischman Productions

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EDWARD: The Musical

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Director: Ovation Award Winner: Brittney S. Wheeler

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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.

EDWARD: THE MUSICAL

Company: Blue Vanity

Directed by Ovation Award Winner: Brittney S. Wheeler

Dates: Feb 17, 18 @ 8pm, 19, @ 2pm

Tickets: $10

Description:

Edward is tired. Edward is sad. Edward, is angry. So Edward, has a psychotic break, and vows to make everyone just as miserable as he is. “Edward: The Musical”, is a dark comedy about giving life a bitter kick to the balls; and finding out who you really are.

Produced by Blue Vanity

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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.

BEST OF THE BEST OF THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY THEATER

Company: LB Community Theater

Dates: Feb 10 & 11, 2017 @ 8pm

Ticket Price: $20

Description:

The LBCT is a collaborative theater where the participants help create the final production by using their own stories/talents!  The Best of the Best Show is a culmination, of a selection, of the top piece’s shared at the Long Beach Community Theater during our first three years of production.

Produced by LB Community Theater

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STAFF AND FRIENDS CABARET FUNDRAISER

Company: Halley Wright and the Long Beach Playhouse

Dates: Feb 4, 2017 @ 8pm

Ticket Price: $20

Description:

The Staff, Volunteers, and Friends are coming together to raise some money for LBP while having fun onstage! From songs, to drama, to puppets, you never kow what you may get at a Staff Cabaret. Just buckle in and enjoy the ride!

Bring your dollars to ‘tip’ your favorite performer and let’s see who can raise the most money for your favorite community theatre!

Produced by Halley Wright as an event in her campaign for Queen of Hearts

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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.

EARBUD THEATER LIVE!

Company: Earbud Theater

Dates: Jan 13 & 14, 2017 @ 8pm

Tickets: $15.00

Description:

Earbud Theater is an award-winning podcast dedicated to “theater of the mind”: sci-fi and horror audio dramas that stimulate the imagination. In Earbud Theater Live!, audiences are invited into the lair where our “podplays” are made, and treated to a double feature of mind-bending stories presented with radio-style live sound.

Produced by Earbud Theater Company

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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.

ACTUALLY ORANGES

Company: UP. N. Coming. Actors

January 6, 7, @ 8pm, January 8, @ 2pm

Single Tickets: $20.00 at Door

$15 presale/online

 

Description:

Actually Oranges (When life hands you lemons) by Tahirih Moeller is a comedy centering around the friendship of Caren, Jasmine and Owen. However, relationships within the trio are challenged when, one day, Owen transforms into orange juice as a reaction to expressing his unrequited love for Jasmine.

Produced by the Up. N. Coming. Actors Company

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