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International City Theatre

330 East Seaside Way
Long Beach, CA 90802

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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.

Upcoming Shows

Conscience

Conscience

Aug 26 – Sep 13, 2026

At a time when fear and political intimidation silenced many voices in Washington, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith chose to speak. International City Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of Conscience , Tony Award®-winning playwright Joe DiPietro’s gripping political drama about...

Tenderly – The Rosemary Clooney Musical

Feb 17 – Mar 7, 2027

An intimate and heartfelt musical that traces the extraordinary life of Rosemary Clooney, a young woman from a small town in Kentucky who became one of the 20th century's biggest recording stars. Behind the golden voice and Hollywood glamour was a life marked by personal...

The Man Who Killed the Cure

Apr 28 – May 16, 2027

A gripping, fact-based drama that delves into a world of medicine where the end goal is not healing, but profit. Inspired by the life and death of natural healing pioneer Dr. Max Gerson, the play weaves together the story of Gerson and his business partner Rudolph Heller...

Slow Food

Jun 9 – Jun 27, 2027

A laugh-out-loud comedy that wryly explores the human connection we all hunger for. A vacationing couple heads to a Greek restaurant in Palm Springs for their anniversary dinner, but a wacky waiter insinuates his way into their meal and their lives. The couple is forced to take...

Walden

Aug 25 – Sep 12, 2027

The Southern California premiere takes place in a not-very-distant future when climate change has intensified and humanity is struggling with whether to save the planet or flee it. After returning from a year-long Moon mission, a NASA botanist finds herself in a remote cabin in...

Driving Miss Daisy

Oct 20 – Nov 7, 2027

A funny, touching Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic by Alfred Uhry. When elderly widow Daisy Wertham demolishes the car, her son replaces her keys with a chauffeur, and wealthy, sharp-tongued Jewish Daisy and Hoke, a previously unemployed Black man, have little in common...

Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre

Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre

by Harker Jones · September 8, 2026

Swiss writer Max Frisch’s post–World War II absurdist satire THE ARSONISTS hit Los Feliz like a blow torch, scorching everything in its path.…

Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey

Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey

by Evan Henerson · August 27, 2026

TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…

Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater

Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater

by Edmund Whelan · August 24, 2026

The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · August 22, 2026

Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…

Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Hudson Backstage Theatre

Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Hudson Backstage Theatre

by Melissa Heckscher · August 22, 2026

With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…

Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at Broadwater Black Box

Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at Broadwater Black Box

by Harker Jones · August 18, 2026

Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…

Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Old Globe Theatre - San Diego

Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Old Globe Theatre - San Diego

by Evan Henerson · August 17, 2026

The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…

Review: Immersive Rock Opera DRACULA THE MUSICAL at Nocturne Theatre

Review: Immersive Rock Opera DRACULA THE MUSICAL at Nocturne Theatre

by Shari Barrett · August 12, 2026

Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…

Past Shows

35 total · showing 21–30

Deathtrap

Deathtrap

Oct 18 – Nov 5, 2023

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 hit. Just in time, a former student sends him the manuscript of his first play, a murder mystery...

Exit Wounds

Exit Wounds

Aug 23 – Sep 10, 2023

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 Wendy Graf , a powerful and moving look at the human story behind the sensationalist headlines of a tragedy. Recipient of the...

tick, tick...BOOM!

tick, tick...BOOM!

Feb 16 – Mar 5, 2023

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 write the great American musical before time and life pass him by offers a revealing look at the man who would...

Valley Song

Valley Song

Aug 24 – Sep 11, 2022

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 transcends politics, a young girl seeks the courage to embrace the future while her...

A Doll's House: Part 2

A Doll's House: Part 2

Apr 14 – May 1, 2022

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 Ibsens 1879 classic. This stand-alone continuation (no need to know the original) opens April 15...

The Last Five Years

The Last Five Years

Jun 3 – Jun 20, 2021

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 affair. A young up-and-coming novelist falls in love with a struggling actress...

Slow Food

Slow Food

Apr 29 – May 16, 2021

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 but will the marriage survive the service? As a wacky waiter insinuates his way into their meal and their lives the...

ART

ART

Feb 18 – Mar 7, 2021

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 prism of modern art. How much would you pay for a painting that was a white canvas? Would it be art?...

The Andrews Brothers

The Andrews Brothers

Feb 19 – Mar 8, 2020

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 with cancellation when a certain famous trio of singing sisters fails to show up, and its up to three earnest and determined stagehands...

Beast on the Moon

Beast on the Moon

Aug 21 – Sep 22, 2019

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 mail-order bride is shipped to Milwaukee to begin a new life with her photographer husband. As they struggle to define...

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