Review: APPLAUSE at The Group Rep
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.…
About the Theatre
ICT is the resident professional theatre company of the City of Long Beach. Established on the campus of Long Beach City College in 1985, ICT moved to its current performing home, the Beverly O’Neill Theater at the downtown Long Beach Performing Arts complex in 1996. ICT’s mainstage season, combined with its carefully curated slate of education programs for children (PACT, Summer Youth Conservatory), young adults (free tickets to performances/talk backs, paid internships), families (Free Saturday Family Theatre), and seniors (transportation and free tickets), its programs have something to offer everyone from 4 to 104 and reach around 30,000 people annually. Explore the ways that you can support ICT’s commitment to presenting high quality productions and education programs to our diverse greater Long Beach community.
Review: OC's Segerstrom Center Welcomes HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
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: MUSE/IQUE DEFIANTLY JONI: A SINGER/SONGWRITER BARES HER SOUL at Mark Taper Forum
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…
Review: ANATOMY OF A BACK by Kick Boom Theater at Electric Lodge
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…
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Musical Theatre West
Musical Theatre West's brand new presentation of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT marks the fifth time the 74-season-old institution is revisiting this ubiquitous musical, this time starring hunky Broadway alum and America's Got Talent standout Brian Justin Crum. For all intents and purp…
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Wisteria Theater
Even in Los Angeles, in the midst of a spectacular live theater renaissance, there are few theaters in town doing musicals with as much deep excellence and sheer joy as Wisteria Theater.…
Review: MEXODUS at Pasadena Playhouse
When we hum along, dance, applaud or whatever (folks in the up close Get Down section probably have more opportunity to, you know, get down), the connection to the story and to its themes feels that much more immediate.…
Review: PAINTED PONIES Starring Rachel Sorsa at Ruskin Group Theatre
Sorsa’s extraordinary talent in enveloping Pam as if she was inside her soul, along with Elina de Santos minimally invasive direction by keeping Sorsa seated on the couch center stage to tell her story into her cell phone, will keep your sharp focus on Ian McRae’s monologue honoring human resili…
Review: IF/THEN at the Zephyr Theatre
What did our critic think of IF/THEN at Zephyr Theatre?…
Review: World Premiere E=MC² EINSTEIN THE MUSICAL Often Trades Depth for Silly Songs
I want to praise the quality of the large cast for their dedication to bringing so many authentic characters to life onstage while changing costumes, accents and physicality often in the blink of an eye. But with so much interesting history to be explored about a man who was often quoted, and misquo…
Past Shows
The Revolutionists
Playwright Lauren Gunderson gives France’s Reign of Terror a riotous, sharp-tongued makeover in this fast-paced comedy that finds humor even in the darkest of times....
Warsaw
International City Theatre presents the world premiere of a haunting new drama by British playwright and screenwriter Paul Webb (Selma). Four lives are unexpectedly brought...
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
International City Theatre opens its 41st season with I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, the crowd-pleasing musical comedy revue that tackles modern love in...
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson–Apt. 2B
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson–Apt. 2B presents a modern, irreverent twist on the classic detective duo, reimagining the iconic characters of Sherlock Holmes and Joan...
Masala Dabba
Aug. 27 – Sept. 14Wednesday at 8 p.m. (Aug. 27 ONLY)Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.Fridays at 7:30 p.m.Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.Sundays at 2 p.m. ...
The World Premiere of Masala Dabba
A Multicultural Family Drama
Untitled Family Drama
International City Theatre's 40th anniversary season opens with a world premiere family drama by Wendy Graf. In this play, members of a mixed-race family explore...
The Angel Next Door
International City Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of The Angel Next Door, a deliciously screwy rom-com by Paul Slade Smith, the playwright behind last...
The Angel Next Door
The Angel Next Door, a screwball romantic comedy by Paul Slade Smith, will have its Los Angeles premiere at International City Theatre. The story follows...
The Violin Maker
Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein gathered and restored ruined violins that survived the Holocaust, creating a remarkable collection known throughout the world as the “Violins...
The Violin Maker
The Violin Maker, written by Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak, features the remarkable story of Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein, who dedicated his life...
Desperate Measures
International City Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of a foot-stompin’, knee-slappin’ musical inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Saddle up for this joyous musical...
Desperate Measures
International City Theatre will showcase the Los Angeles premiere of Desperate Measures, a musical inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. With a score by David...
FeaturedMurder on the Links
Something’s afoul on the private golf course at Merlinville-Sur-Mer, namely the body of Hercule Poirot’s newest client! Acclaimed playwright Steven Dietz brings the famed Belgian...
Murder on the Links
Something’s afoul on the private golf course at Merlinville-Sur-Mer, namely the body of Hercule Poirot’s newest client! International City Theatre presents Murder on the Links,...
FeaturedThe Double V
International City Theatre will present The Double V, a historical drama by Carole Eglash-Kosoff about the first Black civil rights movement in the U.S. Michael...
The Double V
International City Theatre presents a historical drama about the first Black civil rights movement in the U.S. In 1942, his attempt to enlist in the...
The Outsider
International City Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of a wildly funny and frighteningly timely satire about a flawed candidate who might just be the...
FeaturedWhat The Constitution Means To Me
International City Theatre presents the Obie and New York Drama Critics Circle award-winning play by Heidi Schreck that breathes new life into our Constitution and...
Marilyn, Mom & Me
A true story written and directed by Long Beach resident Luke Yankee, whose mother was a well-known, Oscar and Tony-winning character actress named Eileen Heckart....
Deathtrap
Just in time for Halloween, International City Theatre presents Ira Levin’s Tony-nominated, gasp-inducing comedy thriller. Sidney Bruhl is a playwright desperately in need of a...
Exit Wounds
How do you find redemption when someone you love has committed a terrible crime? International City Theatre presents the world premiere of Exit Wounds by...
tick, tick...BOOM!
Jonathan Larson’s pop/rock musical about the courage it takes to follow one’s dreams. Funny and moving, this autobiographical work about an aspiring composer trying to...
Valley Song
International City Theatre presents Valley Song, the first post-apartheid play by South African master playwright Athol Fugard. In this poignant and hope-filled coming-of-age story that...
A Doll's House: Part 2
Lucas Hnath fans, rejoice! International City Theatre presents A Dolls House, Part 2, the Obie-Award winning playwrights bitingly funny, thoroughly modern, 90-minute sequel to Henrik...
The Last Five Years
International City Theatre virtually presents an intimate, emotionally powerful musical by Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown that ingeniously deconstructs a five-year love...
Slow Food
A tender, uproarious comedy that delves deeply into what we hunger for. A vacationing couple celebrates their anniversary at a Greek restaurant in Palm Springs...
ART
International City Theatre opens its 36th season with a virtual presentation of Yasmina Rezas multiple award-winning, hilarious look at the bonds of friendship viewed through...
The Andrews Brothers
A madcap musical salute to the swinging 40s created by Roger Bean (The Marvelous Wondrettes, Life Could Be A Dream). A USO show is threatened...
Beast on the Moon
Richard Kalinoski's haunting and poetic play about two immigrants who escape the Armenian genocide in Turkey to seek refuge in America. In 1921, an Armenian...
Bestseller
A zany comic romp by internationally acclaimed playwright Peter Quilter (Glorious!, End of the Rainbow) about writers, how they write, the stories they tell and...
The Price
In Arthur Millers riveting masterpiece, two estranged brothers must try to make peace with their past when they meet to dispose of their late father's...
Life Could Be A Dream
SH-BOOM! Meet fledgling doo-wop singing group Denny and the Dreamers as they prepare to enter the Big Whopper Radio contest and realize their dreams of...
A Splintered Soul
A gripping drama about war refugees haunted by the death of their loved ones — and by memories of the things they had to do...
Carboard Piano
Against the backdrop of Uganda’s civil war, the union of the daughter of an American missionary and a local teenage girl is disrupted by violence....
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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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E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Fool for Love Santa Monica Playhouse (7/23-7/26) |
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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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The Lion King Pantages Theatre (12/17-2/13) |
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Doja Cat at The Kia Forum The Kia Forum (10/22-10/22) |
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Mentiras All Stars YouTube Theater (9/19-9/19) |