The Garage Theatre, Long Beach’s most beloved independent theatre company, announced its 2014 season this week and it includes, among others, a West Coast premiere, a revolutionary musical and a play centered around a 50s quiz show.
In celebration of the group’s 10th anniversary of the occupation of the black box theatre at 251 E. 7th St., the Garage Theatre is calling its 2014 season “10 on 7th” and will be produced “in collision” with another avant garde Long Beach theatre company, Alive Theatre.
14-Year-old Garage and its slightly younger sibling Alive decided to join forces in the summer of 2012 in an attempt to combine the efforts of the small companies. Until 2011, Garage’s year-long seasons included six plays, including its annual holiday melodrama, however the departure of key players forced Garage to drop to five shows for its 2012 season. Similar losses for Alive meant that the two were almost destined to collide.
“For the past year and a half, The Garage Theatre has been colliding with The Alive Theatre and the merger has gone swimmingly and breathed new life into the space, the process and the work,” said Danielle Dauphinee of Garage Theatre.
The 2014 season includes the following five shows:
Sans Merci
By Johnna Adams
Directed by Katie Chidester
April 4, 2014 – April 26, 2014
Night And Her Stars
By Richard Greenberg
Directed by Matthew Anderson
May 30th- June 28th, 2014
Threepenny Opera
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed By Eric Hamme
Musical Director Ellen Warkantine
August 01, 2014 – August 30, 2014
Pink Milk *West Coast Premiere*
By Alex Paul Young
Directed by Ashley Allen
October 3, 2014-November 1st, 2014
11th Annual Holiday Melodrama
Written and Directed by Jamie Sweet
December 05, 2014 – December 20 2014
Season subscriptions are on sale now at thegaragetheatre.org or by phone (562) 433-8337. Single tickets go on sale Monday, March 10.
Read more:
- Best Performing Arts Group: Garage Theatre
- Garage and Alive Theatres Come Together, Right Now; Fundraiser Sunday at Alex’s Bar
- Absurdity Dominates Garage Theatre’s Performance of Two One-Act Plays
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