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STEEL MAGNOLIAS Opens Soon At Long Beach Playhouse


by A.A. Cristi - April 29, 2025

STEEL MAGNOLIAS will run May 17 – June 14, 2025 at Long Beach Playhouse. Steel Magnolias is the consummate play about the ways women come together for friendship, support, gossip, humor, and a soft place to land when their hearts are breaking....

Stage Raw to Present its 2025 Stage Raw Awards Party


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 11, 2025

Now in its 11th year, Stage Raw will present its 2025 Stage Raw Awards Party on Monday, May 5, 2025 at Sassafras Saloon. Learn more about the awardees here!...

THE PIANO LESSON Opens This Month At Long Beach Playhouse


by A.A. Cristi - February 10, 2025

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson will begin performances at Long Beach Playhouse on February 22 and will run to March 22, 2025. August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, THE PIANO LESSON is part of the playwright's Pittsburg Series of ten shows set in that town....

TED TURNER AND THE LAST ROUNDUP to be Presented at Long Beach Playhouse in January


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 30, 2024

The world premiere of Mark Whicker’s one-act of the life of Ted Turner, Ted Turner and the Last Roundup, will open in January as part of the Long Beach Playhouse’s 2025 Studio Collaborative Season....

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns to Long Beach Playhouse


by Stephi Wild - November 26, 2024

Each year since 2012, the Long Beach Playhouse mounted a production of Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol. Learn more about this year's edition of the show here!...

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Comes to Long Beach Playhouse


by Stephi Wild - October 02, 2024

Brilliantly innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the landmark musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. In this gender-bending musical, transgender punk rocker from East Germany, Hedwig tours the U.S. with her band, The Angry Inch. The musical explore...

THE PASSION OF DRACULA Comes to Long Beach Playhouse This Month


by Stephi Wild - September 10, 2024

With Halloween just around the corner, the Long Beach Playhouse will serve up a classic horror story with a twist in The Passion of Dracula. ...

SWEAT Opens at Long Beach Playhouse This Month


by Stephi Wild - July 08, 2024

Sweat opens at Long Beach Playhouse this month. Performances run July 20 – August 17, 2024....

Interview: Director Brian Pirnat On THE TRANSLUCENT FROGS OF QUUUP Musical


by Shari Barrett - May 28, 2024

Every so often, a new play or musical being done in Los Angeles catches my eye with a big dose of curiosity. Such is the case with the musical The Translucent Frogs of Quuup with Book by Chris Larner and Music by Mark Stevens, produced by Alchemy Theatre Company and directed by Brian Pirnat with mus...

NOT A MOMENT, BUT A MOVEMENT Play Festival Held Next Month at The Kirk Douglas Theatre


by Blair Ingenthron - May 20, 2024

Center Theatre Group, in collaboration with The Fire This Time Festival and Watts Village Theater Company, will present a second season of Not A Moment, But A Movement, an initiative created to amplify, center, and celebrate Black voices....

Past Shows

Black December
Black December
3/14 - 3/16/2025


BLACK DECEMBER is a drama set in the South at the Odessa plantation and spans across four decades (1940, 1970, 1990, and present day). The ...

Ordinary Days
Ordinary Days
3/3 - 3/5/2023


Set in New York City, the musical follows four characters, Claire, Jason, Warren, and Deb, exploring how their   ordinary lives connect in the most amazing ...

Little Shop of Horrors
5/25 - 6/22/2013


A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon ...

A Flea in Her Ear
4/13 - 5/11/2013


- Georges Feydeau; trans: Barnett Shaw....

Into The Woods
6/30 - 7/28/2012


Musical based on Classic Fairy Tales... An ambivalent Cinderella? A blood-thirsty Little Red Riding Hood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? A Witch…who raps? ...


Jennifer is just an average California girl who re-engineers obsolete missile components for the U.S. Army from her bedroom. Rolin Jones’ inventive “techno-comedy” chronicles one ...


The world’s greatest detective has seemingly reached the end of his remarkable career when a case presents itself that is too tempting to ignore. In ...

Barefoot in the Park
1/14 - 2/11/2012


One of the sweetest odes to young love and commitment ever written for the theatre. In this delightfully playful comedy, newlyweds Corie and Paul negotiate ...

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