CARPENTER CENTER

by A.A. Cristi - March 11, 2024

Join Hollywood legend Henry Winkler for an unforgettable evening at the Carpenter Center on April 6....

by Stephi Wild - February 28, 2024

 L.A.-based dance company Ballet Folklórico de Los Ángeles and the musicians of Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar will return to the Carpenter Center on the campus of California State University, Long Beach on Saturday, March 23 at 8 p.m....

by A.A. Cristi - January 16, 2024

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo celebrates their 50th Anniversary Season with a return to the Carpenter Center. Don't miss this all-male comic ballet company in action!...

by Michael Quintos - October 25, 2023

MTW's pleasantly perky, traditionally-executed production comes across as a show that's very eager to please, armed with a keen, fine-tuned goal of making sure both fans and newbies to this beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein classic are left feeling uplifted and happy. The show continues through Novemb...

by Blair Ingenthron - July 24, 2023

Musical Theatre West will present 42nd Street (February 9-25), Million Dollar Quartet (April 12-28), Newsies (July 12-28) and Ain't Misbehavin' (October 18-November 3) in 2024 season....

by Michael Quintos - July 14, 2023

Delightfully charming but also now slightly dated, MTW's expectedly family-friendly, colorfully saturated production is indeed a lovely, mostly entertaining stage recreation of the movie classic. But curiously, at times, the show feels subdued and tamed-down, and in dire need of an extra jolt of ene...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 01, 2023

The Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the campus of California State University, Long Beach concludes their 2022-2023 season with star of Broadway and TV, Terron Brooks in The Soul of Broadway, Unplugged on Wednesday May 10 and Thursday May 11 at 7 p.m. J...

by Michael Quintos - April 21, 2023

Though this song-and-dance spectacular first emerged as a lush, hypnotic stage adaptation of a classic movie musical that combined sophisticated ballet with exuberant show tunes, MTW's new 2023 regional production, now performing through April 30, 2023 somehow feels less mesmerizing---particularly d...

by A.A. Cristi - November 02, 2022

Tony-nominated Broadway star and platinum-selling singer/songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway transports us back to the 1970s as she and an all-star trio revel in the rousing hits by the decade's greatest songwriters! Relive classic hits like 'Killing Me Softly,' 'I Will Survive,' and 'The Way We Were' a...

by Michael Quintos - October 21, 2022

A truly fun-filled, ecstatically-performed iteration of this classic musical, MTW's Broadway-caliber production (now on stage at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center through October 30) is a definite must-see. The production's trio of terrific leads---Lesli Margherita, Jeff Skowron, and James Olivas...