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International City Theatre

330 East Seaside Way
Long Beach, CA 90802

International City Theatre is a theatre in Long Beach, CA.

Upcoming Shows

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...

Articles

Review: WIVES at East West Players

Review: WIVES at East West Players

by Evan Henerson · October 22, 2026

Far more corny than it is cutting or inspiring...the play offers a few insights, scattered laughs and a ton of heavy-handed self-actualization. Even at 90 minutes, this one feels repetitive.…

Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Ovation Theatre

Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Ovation Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · October 21, 2026

Jagged Little Pill takes on a Herculean challenge: create a good original story out of a set of existing songs connected only by artist. Diablo Cody, the librettist for this Alanis Morissette musical, accomplishes this feat.…

Review: FALSETTOS at Victory Theatre

Review: FALSETTOS at Victory Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · October 18, 2026

Let’s face the music: William Finn’s Falsettos, written during the Reagan administration’s brutal fumbling of the AIDS epidemic and polarizing of the LGBTQ+ community, remains strikingly relevant to today.…

Review: COME FROM AWAY at A Noise Within

Review: COME FROM AWAY at A Noise Within

by Evan Henerson · October 16, 2026

Clearly there were a lot worse places to be on that infamous day than small provincial Gander. In Julia Rodriguez-Elliott’s spirited and heart-warming production...A Noise Within let’s us savor that unique visit.…

Review: WAITING IN THE WINGS at Theatricum Botanicum

Review: WAITING IN THE WINGS at Theatricum Botanicum

by Amanda Callas · October 14, 2026

Waiting in the Wings explores the glamor and elegance of a lost era, life on the stage of 1920s music halls, the terror and loss and beauty of aging, and the incomparable treasures of female friendship. …

Review: BAT BOY at GEM Theatre

Review: BAT BOY at GEM Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · October 11, 2026

Before the hit movie-to-musical adaptations Legally Blonde and Heathers, Laurence O’Keefe wrote Bat Boy, a cult classic camp-horror musical about a boy who is half human and half bat.…

Review: CRONE CREED at El Portal Theatre

Review: CRONE CREED at El Portal Theatre

by Harker Jones · October 6, 2026

CRONE CREED is an ambitious take on mythology and fate, and it is one of the best shows the El Portal has offered in recent years — out of a field of many exceptional efforts.…

Past Shows

31 total · showing 11–20

Murder on the Links

Murder on the Links

Oct 18 – Nov 3, 2024

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 , hilariously adapted for the stage by Steven Dietz from the novel by Agatha Christie . When Christie’s...

The Double V

FeaturedThe Double V

Aug 21 – Sep 8, 2024

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 A. Shepperd directs the limited, three-week run August 23 through September 8 at ICT’s home in the Long Beach...

The Double V

The Double V

Aug 22 – Sep 8, 2024

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 army rejected because of his color, 26-year-old James G. Thompson of Wichita, Kansas wrote a letter to the editor of The...

The Outsider

The Outsider

Jun 13 – Jun 30, 2024

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 perfect fit for the job. Ned Newly is terrified of public speaking, and his poll numbers are impressively bad. But...

What The Constitution Means To Me

FeaturedWhat The Constitution Means To Me

May 2 – May 19, 2024

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 imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by...

Marilyn, Mom & Me

Marilyn, Mom & Me

Feb 14 – Mar 3, 2024

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. In 1956, when Heckart was cast as Marilyn Monroe’s best friend in the film, BUS STOP, Monroe, the ultimate “method...

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...

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