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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Don’t miss this yearly Long Beach Shakespeare tradition, the sci-fi adventure that brought mass hysteria! Back for another season!
A Ray Bradbury Double Feature comes to life at the Helen Borgers Theater from KBRD Long Beach! Starting with the Veldt, a classic short story that may make you take that iPad away from your kids. Then enjoy Ray Bradbury’s short story "Sound of Thunder". A cautionary tale of the...
The Helen Borgers Theater Home of The Long Beach Shakespeare Company is proud to present Chekhov in Shorts Directed by Diane Benedict Original translation and adaptation by Diane Benedict Produced by Holly Leveque A Vaudeville brings the comedic short stories of literary master...
ANTIGONE Written by Sophocles Directed by Holly Leveque Ravaged by civil war, the city of Thebes and the two sons of the late Oedipus have fallen in battle. One has been given full funeral rites, the other banished as a traitor to rot on the battlefield. Antigone believes that...
The Long Beach Shakespeare CompanyCelebrating 20 years with our 2022 Season Homecoming!PresentsMACBETHOur first fully stage production of the season.Something wicked has come home.Macbeths ambition overtakes his humanity as he kills his way to being King of Scotland...for a...
The Importance of Being EarnestA Trivial Comedy for Serious People Filmed At the Helen Borgers Theatre, 4250 Atlantic, Long Beach, in Bixby KnollsThe second fully staged production in our 2021 Season: Back to Basics In his country estate, Jack is the responsible guardian of...
THE FOREST OF ARDEN: A HOME FOR HEROES OF ALL KINDS.THE FOREST OF ARDEN IS HOME TO SHEPHERDS, POETS, LOVERS, JESTERS, AND ONE EXCELLENT DISGUISE. THIS SHAKESPEARIAN ROM-COM REMINDS US ALL THAT LOVE AND GOODNESS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES.THIS IS LBSC'S SECOND STREAMING STAGE...
The real hero is always right beside you.All Gerald knows is he just landed his dream job with the lothario, Lord Illingworth. What he doesnt know is why his mother is so opposed to him taking it. She hasnt told him that Illingworth is his father who abandoned her while she was...
A cowards path to heroism.When Prince Hamlet is visited by his fathers ghost and learns of his murder by his uncle, King Claudius, Hamlet embarks on a moral and existential struggle to do the right thing.
Carnage, insanity, and vengeance served under a flakey crust.Revenge begets revenge in this gory play about the feud between Tamora, captured queen of the Goths and the Roman general, Titus Andronicus. Racism, rape, disfigurement and psychological warfare are all fair game for...
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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) |
