Calling all playwrights: Long Beach Playhouse seeking new works for festival
The plays must be unproduced, unpubished, non-musical full length plays. Deadline to apply is June 30.
Long Beach Playhouse’s 28th Annual New Works Festival to Foster New and Experienced Playwrights
For nearly three decades Long Beach Playhouse (LBP) has given both novice and experienced playwrights a chance to have their work presented during a staged reading at its New Works Festival, established in 1990.
Long Beach Playhouse, Held2gether Partner to Bring Original Comedy to Studio Theatre
For their fifth annual collaboration, Long Beach Playhouse and Held2gether, Improv for Life will bring an original sketch comedy show to the studio stage.
Long Beach Playhouse Presents Holiday Classic “A Christmas Carol”
The Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future, Ebenezer Scrooge returns to the Long Beach Playhouse with this quick-paced and highly theatrical re-telling of Charles Dickens 1843 story starting on Saturday, December 9.
Long Beach Playhouse’s 27th Annual New Works Festival Brings Dark Comedy to the Studio
The Long Beach Playhouse (LBP) will kick off its 27th annual New Works Festival (NWF) in its Studio Theatre on Friday, March 31 with a reading of The Other Genius, a black comedy.
Muddled Myths and Patriarchy: PYGMALION at the Long Beach Playhouse
With all of the suits piled up on top of Shaw’s original play, it is refreshing to see the anti-romantic and pointedly feminist class-study Pygmalion at its unadorned core. Seeing a spirited revival of the original text could still prove to be a shocking or revelatory experience to contemporary audiences, but with the largely miscast and sloppily staged revival running now at the Long Beach Playhouse, audiences are likely to leave scratching their heads rather than feeling awoken.
Newly Founded Evolve Theatre Seeks to Address Social Issues With Debut Play, CHOOSING US*
A brand-new theatre company whose mission is to inspire positive social change will make its debut at the Long Beach Playhouse with Choosing Us*, a play that addresses a tragedy within the transgender community.
Long Beach Playhouse to Bring Agatha Christie’s THE MOUSETRAP to Local Audiences
Long Beach Playhouse will commence the second half of its 87th season with Agatha Christie’s murder mystery masterpiece, The Mousetrap, the community-supported theatre announced Monday.
UPDATE: Due to Large Crowds BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL to Thrill Audiences for an Additional Weekend
Thanks to larger than anticipated crowds, the final show of the Long Beach Playhouse Studio season, Bat Boy: The Musical, will be extended for one additional weekend and will close on Saturday night, November 21.
Playhouse to Partner with Held2Gether to Benefit WomenShelter of Long Beach
The Long Beach Playhouse and local improv artists Held2Gether will team up to provide a night of improv and sketch comedy to benefit the WomenShelter of Long Beach.