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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Two children trapped in a mysterious rocky tomb, must do everything they can to survive.
Playwright Chris Bucca Taylor brings to life the 26 Floors of Zavier’s Department Store are lettered to represent each department, A for Apparel, Floor-Z being the office of Mister Zavier (pronounced more like Savior) who’s father built up the store from a carpet store to 26th...
Coming & Going Playwright: Jaymie Bellous Inspired by Shakespearean comedies where love blossoms amidst mistaken identities, Coming & Going follows Orlando, a hopeless romantic navigating the chaos of modern dating. With the help of Betty Zatop, a vivacious drag queen eager to...
Playwright Pamela Gilbreath Kelly brings to the stage an exhausted William Shakespeare retires from The Globe Theatre in London and returns to his hometown of Stratford to rest on his laurels and die; but instead, confronts the ghosts of his past. As he comes to terms with the...
Written by Deanne Stillman the play is a series of monologues for women, each with its own name, each of which reflects certain desires and longings, fulfilled and not, all revolving around California, ground zero for the American Dream. It portrays the lives of seven figures...
The Long Beach Shakespeare Company presents its annual tradition, The Wizard of Oz , a live radio adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic, adapted by S. H. Barnett and directed by Joe Montanari and produced by Holly Leveque. This immersive audio experience will transport audiences...
Having helped secure his brother King Edward IV taking the throne of England, the jealous tormented Richard, Duke of York, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power...
Ever Will: The Early Years and Final Days of William Shakespeare, with Music and Songs- Staged Reading Directed by Bryan Langlitz Book and Lyrics Pamela Gilbreath Kelly Composer Carlos Garza Produced by Holly Leveque How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? This is the story of...
Come experience the classic, A Christmas Carol at KBRD Long Beach at the Helen Borgers Theater Home of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company. You don’t want to miss this annual retelling of this classic Charles Dickens radio show this year! Come to the Helen Borgers Theater and...
Our 2024 Halloween Radio Show Season at the Helen Borgers Theater closes with our annual War of the Worlds! “The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles's realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio on October 30, 1938. The radio play was...
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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) |
