Long Beach Playhouse - MainStage (Long Beach, CA)
This American classic is the stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about a devoted friendship. It follows Lennie, a strong man with the mind of a child, and George, a smaller man with quick wit, as they struggle to find work and make a life for themselves at the height of the Great Depression, trying to understand their place in the world.
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I totally loved this event! The actor playing Lenny had suffered a true injury and it seemed to actually add to his precept. I am an avid goer to the Long Beach Playhouse and am once again delighted. The stage was perfect. The lighting was wonderful and the only thing that might have added would have been a lone guitar player standing to the stage side playing during the stage changes and intermission.
Again, thank you for the opportunity to get these tickets.
LP
I loved this event. The theater was intimate and the actors incredible. Thank you for showing me this event in my community. I plan on going to future events here.
The play was done very well. The theater is small and intimate, perfect for a production like this. We had a great time.
The u-shape stage setting and intimate theater allows the audience to stay engaged in the play. My 12 and 14 yr old girls really enjoyed the play and want to come back. I was surprised. They both read this book and the play helped bring more clarity to them. Well done.
Great venue, good actors, well done!
The play was excellent. The playhouse was intimate so you could really enjoy the play and feel that you were right there in the time period. The actors were excellent!!! We were so impressed. We thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
It was ok. Seats were not very good as the actors always had their backs to me. Sometimes the actors stumbled over their lines.
The play was well done and very moving. We all had tears in our eyes at the end. Most of the actors were believable in their roles with Michael Durack (George), Eddie Teran (Lennie), Lawrence Briskey (Slim) and A. Lee Wilson Jr (Crooks)giving outstanding performances. Incredible as it seems, Teran was actually a stand-in for Lennie. The staging was simple and effective. I had a problem hearing the dialogue when actors were at the far end of the stage facing away from our seats but my husband and son were able to hear throughout.
This was our first show at this venue. There really are no bad seats. We were impressed with the production and look forward to attending more shows here in the future.
Very good show. Great seats.
performers were great in their roles. They need to project voices more for all to hear the dialog clearly.
WE LOVED IT ! WILL SEE AGAIN
wonderful performance- highly recommended.
The Long Beach Playhouse offers a comfortable, air-conditioned setting for enjoying live entertainment. The Mainstage features horseshoe seating for 200 audience members on three sides around the stage. Enjoy refreshments and musical entertainment before curtain and during intermissions, as well as art and sculpture exhibits in the Gallery.
George and his friend Lennie, two drifters with delusions of living off the “fat of the land,” have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerously powerful man. It’s Lennie’s obsessions with things soft and cuddly that have made George cautious about whom the gentle giant, with his brute strength, associates with. When a ranch boss’s promiscuous wife is found dead in the barn with a broken neck, it’s obvious that Lennie accidentally killed her. George is then faced with a moral question: How should he deal with Lennie before the ranchers find him and take matters into their own hands?
By John Steinbeck
Directed by Michael Ross
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