The New Works Festival celebrates the voices of today and the legends of tomorrow. Featuring original plays from emerging and established writers, this festival is a platform where daring stories, fresh perspectives, and innovative artistry meet the stage for the very first...
F3 is an original play by Bubba Proctor, presented as part of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company's 2026 New Works Festival. The festival features staged readings and workshop presentations of original plays, with many performances followed by talkbacks allowing direct engagement...
The Ghosts of The Globe Theatre is an original play by Arthur Allison, presented as part of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company's 2026 New Works Festival. The festival features staged readings and workshop presentations of original plays, with many performances followed by...
Tucked Away is an original play by Joni Ravenna, presented as part of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company's 2026 New Works Festival. The festival features staged readings and workshop presentations of original plays, with many performances followed by talkbacks allowing direct...
Vectors is an original play by Stephen Montagne, presented as part of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company's 2026 New Works Festival. The festival features staged readings and workshop presentations of original plays, with many performances followed by talkbacks allowing direct...
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…
Puppet Up!'s motley crew of Jim Henson puppets are as raw and funny as you can get...if you're willing.…
Here are my interviews with director Melissa Chalsma, composer David Melville, and actor Carene Rose Mekertichyan on COMEDY OF ERRORS presented by Independent Shakespeare Company outdoors in Griffith Park this summer.…
All in all, Lakefront offers a very enjoyable two-hour romantic journey guaranteed to keep you laughing and rooting for these lost and lonely souls looking for their soulmate.…
Focusing on four lonely people in Southern California, it dramatizes the ever-shifting facets of our relationships as we struggle to be vulnerable and honest with others and ourselves.…
Beautifully and tenderly directed by Matthew McCray, this ferociously performed and often visually hypnotic intimate production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is such a pleasant surprise, instantly becoming one of Chance Theater's most piercingly emotional new musicals it has ever produc…
Applause has too much heart and is simply too much fun to be bogged down by its shortcomings, so audiences should take advantage of catching this gem while they can.…
In the fantastical, visually-enchanting stage play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD—the theatrical continuation of J.K. Rowling's beloved magical saga—the idea of revisiting the past is embraced as its central theme, which in turn shifts the focus away from the mischievous school adventures tha…
The concert offered an intimate tribute to Joni Mitchell's unique genius, offering a revelatory look at the cultural milieu and musical streams that fed into her art, and then poured out of her Laurel Canyon home and into her unique ways of mixing other genres and artists into her music – or inspi…
John Wuchte and his Kick Boom Theater ensemble of five actors and two onstage musicians (Wuchte on percussion and Sarah Green on guitar) continue their exploration of live percussion scoring the actors’ movement, gestures and stylized dialogue during Anatomy of a Back at the Electric Lodge in Veni…
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As a 25th high school reunion goes on in the gym down the hall, HEATHER WREN wanders into what she thinks is an empty classroom to sneak a smoke. There, she finds GREG ALDERSEN, a math teacher, at work. Heather finds it odd that Greg, a teacher who clearly has also ducked out of...
Ludlow Massacre is an original play by Darren Andrew Nash, presented as part of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company's 2026 New Works Festival. The festival features staged readings and workshop presentations of original plays, with many performances followed by talkbacks allowing...
LUDLOW MASSACRE * By: Darren Andrew Nash Directed by Benjamin Pohlmeier The dates for performances will be: 5/16 8 PM and 5/17 4 PM One of the bloodiest clashes between labor and big business in North American history. A tenacious reporter imbeds with the striking miners and...
Antony and Cleopatra A New Adaptation Conceived and Directed by Christian Lee Navarro Produced by Holly Leveque "Love is the death of duty." Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is a sweeping tragedy of passion, power, and legacy. At its core is the electrifying union of two...
Julius Caesar dramatizes the rise and fall of one of history’s most iconic figures. At the height of his power, Caesar stands as both beloved leader and feared potential tyrant. The Senate’s conspirators strike him down, believing they are saving the Republic. Instead, their act...
Cinderella’s Magical Christmas Written and Directed by Terry HIll Produced by Holly Leveque Featuring songs from Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, and Jerome Kern, this holiday re-telling of the classic tale has everything we love with some twists and turns along the way...
The Black Mosaic collection of literature, narrative, poetry and plays that pull together a picture of Black lives in our current time. The work of William Shakespeare, Lin Manuel Miranda, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou are expertly performed by the exceptional Shakespearean...
The Long Beach Shakespeare Company continues its 2025 season with one of the most influential and talked-about plays in modern theatre history—Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Directed by Michael Hovance and produced under the vision of Producing Artistic Director Holly Leveque...
Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Zion Aguilar Produced by Holly Leveque Much Ado About Nothing turns on the courtship and scandal involving young Hero and her suitor, Claudio, and the witty war of words between Claudio’s friend Benedick and Hero’s cousin Beatrice. In this...
Sherlock Holmes’ adventures in America’ wild west circa 1900, eventually lead him across the country to the Estate of the Mysterious Mrs. Stillman. Her story, cloaked in a dark mystery, comes to light when Sherlock begins to share the tale of his own adventures with her son...
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Much Ado About Nothing McCadden Place Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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6 Out of 10 Theatre 68 (8/20-8/20) |
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
