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 continuing the play on it’s journey to publication.
Announcing This Year’s Production
SHE by Marlow Wyatt
Directed by Anna Kate Mohler
SHE, takes place in a small working class African American town where children play outdoors and respect their elders. The story follows the life of SHE Sojorner Freeman, an ambitious and strong willed, thirteen year old African American poet. SHE has a natural talent for writing and hopes to use this talent to take her out of her small town existence.
**Moderated Audience Talk-Back to Follow Each Performance.
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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 1 @ 8pm
Pie In The Sky by Lawrence Thelen
Directed by Mitchell Nunn
An endearing comedy about an aging mother and daughter who live together in Abilene, Texas. It’s Kathy’s birthday and Margaret, Kathy’s 85 year old mother decides to bake her a pie. Kathy joins her mother in the pie making which quickly becomes a series of heart to heart, endearing and necessary conversations. It becomes clear that Kathy’s mother is trying to help her get her life in order before she departs this world.
April 2 @ 8pm
Adam And Eve…And Adam And Steve by Jason Gordon
Directed by Gigi Fusco Meese
God and his research and development team are conducting an experiment. Adam, Gay Adam and Steve wake up in the Garden of Eden and have to figure out who they are and what they want. Gay Adam and Steve are more than content with each other’s company meanwhile Adam opts for the removal of his rib in order to get his mate Eve. Eventually Eve, Adam, Gay Adam and Steve all end up eating from the Tree of Knowledge and God banishes then from the garden.
**Moderated Audience Talk-Back To Follow Each Performance.
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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.
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 to re-instill faith in life, liberty and the pursuit of laughter.*
*Not really guaranteed.
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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 Homeland’s Junior Drama Club
Hartopia, like any other quaint superhero town, sees one day seamlessly blend into the next. Except for today. The children of the town have awakened to find that all of their parents have gone missing! Desperate for answers, the they must join forces with an ominous figure and cultivate the powers within themselves to save the town.
Festuring:
Idris Sol Perez
Darriella Lewis
Spencer Frye
Melody Dadgar
Darrian Lewis
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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!
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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 Society of Long Beach you will whisked away to times long forgotten in the History of Long Beach Arts. This will be a night not to be forgotten.
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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.
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 provide the suggestions, and the Upperclassmen family gathers to roast a season of peace, joy, and crippling emotional pain.
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