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Helen Borgers Theatre

4250 Atlantic Ave.
Long Beach , CA 90807

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2026 New Works Festival

2026 New Works Festival

May 15 – Sep 20, 2026

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

Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026

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

Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026

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

Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026

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

Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026

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...

Review: THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

Review: THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

by Evan Henerson · August 7, 2026

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.…

Review: F**KING STRANGERS at Echo Theatre Company

Review: F**KING STRANGERS at Echo Theatre Company

by Harker Jones · July 27, 2026

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.…

Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Chance Theater

Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Chance Theater

by Michael Quintos · July 27, 2026

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…

Review: APPLAUSE at The Group Rep

Review: APPLAUSE at The Group Rep

by Andrew Child · July 25, 2026

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.…

Review: OC's Segerstrom Center Welcomes HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD

Review: OC's Segerstrom Center Welcomes HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD

by Michael Quintos · July 22, 2026

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…

Review: ANATOMY OF A BACK by Kick Boom Theater at Electric Lodge

Review: ANATOMY OF A BACK by Kick Boom Theater at Electric Lodge

by Shari Barrett · July 19, 2026

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…

Past Shows

42 total · showing 41–42

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

May 24 – Jun 15, 2019

Whats is your soul worth?The wealthy and acclaimed Doctor Faustus is bored with life, having learned everything already known, so he makes a deal with the devil to learn all that is unknown. One of Shakespeare's greatest contemporaries, Christopher Marlowe retells the classic...

sir Gawain and the Green Knight

sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Nov 23 – Dec 16, 2018

Join King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table for Christmas at Camelot! Queen Guinevere introduces the feast and festivities, but King Arthur refuses to eat until he has been told a true tale of exceptional valor. Suddenly, in rides a giant dressed in green, on a green...

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