Review: BAT BOY at GEM Theatre
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.…
The Helen Borgers Theatre
4250 Atlantic Ave.Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90807
The Helen Borgers Theatre is a theatre in Long Beach, CA.
Articles
Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Colony Theatre
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is a vivacious and colorful show making the most of its 1960s setting to dazzle us with period fashions and backdrops.…
Review: CRONE CREED at El Portal Theatre
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.…
Review: KAIJU at Road Theatre Company
Consistently over-the-top with plenty of laughs and some technical dash for which the Road has long been known, Sawyer’s production shoots out a volley of satirical darts, few of which land with much impact.…
Review: THE OUTSIDERS at Hollywood Pantages Theatre
A musical about disenfranchised teenage boys in warring gangs in the middle of the twentieth century has an impossibly high standard to measure up against in the department of subject matter.…
Review: South Coast Repertory Presents A Revamped INTO THE WOODS
To celebrate the musical's 40th anniversary, South Coast Reportory recreates INTO THE WOODS with a decisively different approach, one that both entices and, at times, triggers an uneasy vibe (at first) that seems to have permeated out from the show's darker second half. Admittedly, something felt of…
Review: THE PETERSON SHOW at Echo Theatre Company
There are no easy answers here, but playwright Janine Nabers raises many questions. What happens when something outside your control forever taints your legacy? How to separate art from artist? How to hold someone accountable even when you love them?…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater
When the US airspace shut down after the attacks of 9/11, what happened to the planes already on their way? Hit Broadway musical Come From Away, penned by Canadian composer-lyricist couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein, recounts the story.…
Review: SPIDER’S WEB at Group Rep At Lonny Chapman Theatre
Agatha Christie is perhaps the most successful and prolific mystery writer in history. Nicknamed the Queen of Crime, she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, introducing the world to household-name detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.…
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Delights at La Mirada Theatre
The brand new McCoy Rigby Entertainment production of the cheeky, macabre classic musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS—now on stage through October 11, 2026 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts—is quite possibly the most eye-popping, delightfully entertaining iteration of the stage show yo…
Past Shows
Tucked Away
Four very different young women held captive on the top floor of an abandoned building with no running water or electricity, part of a human trafficking ring, must find a way to connect in order to finally break free.
A Wire In Mind
A Wire In Mind By Michael J.M. Canas Directed by Rose Kim The dates of the show will be on 5/16 2 PM and 5/17 8 PM In the future, when the Bacall Family installs a Home Recording unit to assist with their father’s advancing Alzheimer’s, Alexis begins to rewire her father’s...
A Doll's House
The Long Beach Shakespeare Company continues its 2025 season with one of the most influential and talked-about plays in modern theatre history—Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Directed by Michael Hovance and produced under the vision of Producing Artistic Director Holly Leveque...
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Zion Aguilar Produced by Holly Leveque Much Ado About Nothing turns on the courtship and scandal involving young Hero and her suitor, Claudio, and the witty war of words between Claudio’s friend Benedick and Hero’s cousin Beatrice. In this...
Chekhov in Shorts
The Helen Borgers Theater Home of The Long Beach Shakespeare Company is proud to present Chekhov in Shorts Directed by Diane Benedict Original translation and adaptation by Diane Benedict Produced by Holly Leveque A Vaudeville brings the comedic short stories of literary master...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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The Cottage North Coast Repertory (10/28-11/22) |
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Woof Odyssey Theatre (10/03-11/08) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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Adam Pascal Feinstein's at the Nikko (10/23-10/24) |
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CHAÏR The Elysian Theater (10/17-10/17) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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EVITA Valverde Annex (10/17-10/25) |
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Dog Man: The Musical Kirk Douglas Theatre (9/12-10/18) |
