1:50pm | As part of its “pay what you can” policy for Thursday-night preview performances of all productions, Long Beach Playhouse is inviting middle- and high-school students citywide to attend tonight’s performance of To Kill a Mockingbird, an adaptation of the classic Harper Lee novel that is required reading for all 9th-graders in the Long Beach Unified School District.
To sweeten the deal, dinner will be available for purchase from a Komodo Food Truck at 6:00pm, with the first 10 diners receiving a complimentary ticket to any future LB Playhouse production, while the next 10 getting a two-for-one ticket.
Synopsis of To Kill a Mockingbird via LB Playhouse:
The world never seems as fresh, as wonderful or terrifying, or as good and evil as it does through the eyes of a child. Atticus Finch must teach his children, Scout and Jem, difficult lessons about racial tolerance, violence and prejudice when he goes against the community by defending a young black man falsely accused of a crime against a white woman. One of America’s greatest stories movingly adapted for the stage.
To Kill a Mockingbird (based on the novel by Harper Lee; adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel) runs on the Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theater through November 19. For more information and to purchase tickets, go to http://lbplayhouse.org/on-stage/mainstage-theater.
Disclosure: Long Beach Post publisher Shaun Lumachi is a Long Beach Playhouse board member.