The 4th Annual Long Beach Poppin' Play Festival Begins

Alive Theatre is set to present the 4th Annual Long Beach Poppin' Play Festival, the latest in their award-winning series of new works theatre festivals, assembling dozens of local artists to craft a two-month-long celebreation of wildly diverse and boldly experimental stage shows!

This year's festival promises to be the best yet, with stories including hallucinogenic, guilt-and-heavy-metal-fueled wilderness survival tales (Headlights & Bush) and mysterious meditations on the creative impulse by way of ghost stories and lost artifacts of ancient Americana (Return to Thunder Mountain); tales of the day human beings break down the walls that separate them in dreams (Le Reve Collectif), and the bittersweet terror of the not-so-distant-past (Good Riddance, from the playwright who brought us Entropy General); experimental pieces that ruminate on family (Raised By Wolves), mortality (Garden of Ashes), and Alzheimer's (Bring on the Dancing Girls) - and much, much more!

Theatre. Music. Art. Be a part of Long Beach Arts Month and 11 World-Premiere Plays, from some of the best talent Long Beach has to offer!

October 7-8, 21-22
November 4-5, 18-19
Fridays @ 8pm
Saturdays (2 Unique Sets of Shows!) @ 6pm & 9pm

@ The Lafayette Building
Embassy Ballroom
528 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA90802

$18 General / $15 Students and Seniors
$10 groups of 10 or more
E-mail boxoffice@alivetheatre.org for group reservations!

Multi Night Packages (available for purchase at box office)
2 Nights - General $30 / Students and Seniors $25
3 Nights - General $45 / Students and Seniors $40

Fridays, 8pm - The Secret World!
Tales of the hidden worlds just beyond our own!
Headlights & Bush by Aaron Van Geem Directed by Eamonn Fox
Garden of Ashes by Jan O'Connor Dir. by Caprice Spencer Rothe
Le Reve Collectif by Robert Edward Directed by Kate Bowen

Saturdays, 6pm - The Bittersweet Terror of the Past!
Delve into The Shadows of forgotten friends & family!
Awake from this Noirmare by Shawn Kathryn Kane Dir. by Andrew Eiden
Raised By Wolves by LaToya Morgan Directed by Ricci Dedola
Good Riddance by Ryan McClary Directed by Tony Bartolone

Saturdays, 9pm - Tales Beyond Reason!
Shatter your senses with plays from all spectrums!
Bring on the Dancing Girls by Susan C. Hunter Dir. by Ricci Dedola
Rotations by Bryan Madigan Directed by Ashley Allen
Dracula, adapted from work by Abhay Khosla Dir. by Robert Edward
Groove Apocalypse by Robert Edward & His Solid Gold Dancers
Return to Lightning Mountain by Jasper Oliver Dir. by Turner Munch

Visit www.alivetheatre.org for more info, tickets and specials!

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