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It's Christmas Eve, 1947, and the Lutz Radio Hour is about to make its final broadcast, one day before the radio station converts to television. Complete with sound effects, radio commercials and holiday songs, this lively, comedic play at the Long Beach Playhouse evokes both the spirit of the season and nostalgia for a bygone era. Learn more...

A fictional Carl Reiner, New York delivery boy David Kolowitz loves the movies. Although discouraged by his girlfriend, parents, and boss, he joins an off-Broadway theater company. Despite a lack of talent, David triumphs over all odds, and his debut earns acceptance by family and girlfriend. Learn more...

A screwball comedy from the U.K., Caught in the Net centers on a London cab driver with two homes -- and a wife and children in each one. His hectic dual life spirals out of control when his son and daughter get acquainted on an online chat room and plan to meet. Learn more...

Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He's landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for 200 years and Leon's job is to break the curse. Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents James Yaffe's thriller Cliffhanger on their mainstage. A college professor goes to outrageous lengths to avoid forced retirement. Together with his wife, mild-mannered Henry Lowenthal plots and schemes his way to promotion. Learn more...

Lady Windermere considers leaving her husband of two years when she believes he's been unfaithful with a woman who turns out to be her own mother. Remarkably, it will be the mother who sets her straight without ever revealing her identity. Learn more...

In the tradition of S.N. Behrman, Philip Barry and W. Somerset Maugham, Sabrina Fair is a romantic comedy set in a luxurious Long Island estate in the 1950s. It tells the story of a romance between a chauffeur's daughter and the two sons for whom her father works. Learn more...

When city-dweller Newton Fuller dreams of finding "a little place in the country to call his own," he gets what he asks for -- to his chagrin. The last work written together by famed playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, this comedy finds Fuller buying a dilapidated farmhouse, where, according to legend, George Washington once stayed the night. Learn more...

In N. Richard Nash's play, a charismatic con-man comes into a drought-ridden rural town in Depression-era America and promises to bring rain for $100, changing the lives of a spinster, her father, and two brothers in the process. Blending comedy and drama, The Rainmaker has been a Broadway hit and was also adapted as a movie starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. Learn more...

"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death." That is the philosophy of Auntie Mame, the title character of Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee's play. A hit when it was first produced in 1965, Long Beach Playhouse now bring Auntie Mame back to where she belongs for the first time in 43 years. Learn more...

The Long Beach Playhouse presents Romeo and Juliet, Together and Alive At Last, a mainstage show perfect for young audiences, performed by professional actors. A pair of eighth-graders are in love, but terribly shy. To bring the two together, their classmates decide to stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet, with the reluctant couple voted into the title roles. Learn more...

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. Learn more...

A famous actress, accompanied by her niece, is recuperating from a hectic season and a bit too much high living when a few surprise guests arrive and quickly turn things upside down. Combining humor and suspense, this thriller brings together a cast of charming and witty "theatre people" and plunges them into a plot of murder, mayhem and disguised identity. Learn more...

It's 1953 in a small Kansas town and options are few for Madge and her independent younger sister, Millie, who yearn for more than the life of staid domesticity awaiting them. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, playwright William Inge depicts the pleasure--and the pain--of risking everything to choose your own path. Learn more...

The Long Beach Playhouse presents W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife. This sophisticated comedy tells the story of a woman who discovers her husband's infidelity, and sets out to manufacture her independence from him. Written over eighty years ago, Maugham's play seems strikingly ahead of its time today; a recent Broadway production was a 2006 Tony nominee for Best Revival of a Play. Learn more...

The Long Beach Playhouse presents the literate, suspenseful play Deadly Game. Three retired men of law on a remote mountain in Switzerland amuse themselves by going through the legal ceremony of prosecuting strangers who drop in. An American traveling salesman enters and becomes the pawn in their deadly game. Learn more...

It's Christmas time and the Fordyce family is planning a holiday wedding. The excitement and goings-on take a curious turn when an eccentric unknown woman, Mrs. Puffin, appears on the doorstep with the pronouncement that the wedding is not going to take place. The perfect touch of British wit for a busy holiday season! Learn more...

Introduce the entire family to the joys of live theatre with the Long Beach Playhouse's production of Charlotte's Web. Based on E.B. White's unforgettable novel, Charlotte's Web is a touching play about seeking out the best in others and the meaning of true friendship. It is a classic story of loyalty, trust and sacrifice. Learn more...

A dazzling blend of farce and morality, this play explores human frailty and social hypocrisy with the story of an up-and-coming politician who is blackmailed into changing his position on an important vote. Oscar Wilde's wonderful wit is at work in this famous, lush costume comedy which features blackmail, stolen jewels, romance and rich satire on the Victorian era. Learn more...

Clarissa spins tales of adventure for her bored diplomatic circle, but when a murder takes place in her drawing room, she finds live drama much harder to cope with. This is one of the few Agatha Christie plays that not only shocks and thrills, but tickles the funny bone, too. Learn more...

In the madcap comedy Play On!, a theatre company is doing its best to put on a play--but the self-important, overbearing playwright keeps re-writing the story! What happens along the way builds to a madcap climax in a thoroughly hilarious romp. Learn more...

An advertising man who has brought his bride to the boss's mountain lodge for a honeymoon calls the police to investigate her sudden disappearance. A pretty young girl appears and insists--over his protests--that she is the missing wife. A priest backs up her story. Before long, there are two murders at the isolated lodge. Learn more...

The Long Beach Playhouse presents Tom Dudzick's critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway Christmas comedy Greetings. When Andy Gorski brings his Jewish atheist fiancee home to meet his Catholic parents on Christmas Eve, cultures and beliefs immediately clash. Learn more...

In the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, Crouch is a well-meaning innocent, while Bodley is a married lech and philanderer. Poor Crouch always gets caught in the middle of suspicious wives, mistresses, and mistaken identities. Rapid-fire jokes and hilarious doings keep this brew bubbly! This farce broke all box office records in London and Paris before moving to Broadway. Learn more...

When Sheridan Whiteside gets stuck at the Stanleys' in this Broadway classic, it's not just his broken hip the Stanleys have to contend with: ex-cons at dinner, bizarre gifts from afar, $784 phone bills and sultry actresses all show up! One of the American stage's endearing favorites. Learn more...

Celebrate Long Beach Playhouse's 77th season by attending the special opening night performance of one of the 2006 season shows. Opening night performances available for purchase at a great value include: Move Over Mrs. Markham, Hostile Witness, Enchanted April, and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Learn more...

Two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages and they recruit two very different English women, an elderly spinster who prefers to live in the past and a beautiful but very jaded young woman, to share the cost and the experience. There, among the wisteria blossoms and Mediterranean sunshine, all four bloom again--rediscovering themselves in ways that they--and we--could never have expected. Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents Hostile Witness. Horrified by the death of his daughter in a hit-and-run accident, a British barrister swears revenge. Soon after, he is accused of murdering a neighbor. He begins to wonder if he is not going stark raving mad. Did he do it, or is he being framed? Learn more...

Three clandestine meetings are arranged to all take place at the same time and place: Mrs. Markham's apartment. The Markhams plan an evening out and each secretly allows the apartment to be used by a friend for an illicit affair. Their plans become a mixed-up mismatch and the Markhams end up suspecting each other of being the unfaithful ones. Learn more...

George Kimball is a Westchester commuter whose hobby is hypochondria. When he overhears his doctor talking about another patient who is on his way out with heart trouble, he misunderstands and prepares to meet the end bravely. He puts his affairs in order, writes a heartbreaking letter to his wife to be read after his death and arranges for the soon-to-be widow to have a good second husband. He buys a cemetery plot big enough for: Himself, the Widow and Hubby Two. Complications follow with plans for Reno and false confessions. Learn more...

This spoof of English mysteries with a decidedly American flavor finds Miss Maple, a society dowager noted for her imaginative week-end parties, awaiting a group of detective writers invited to eerie Ravenswood Manor where they are to assume the personalities of fictional characters. She'll arranges all sorts of scary, amusing incidents. Then a real murder takes place and the guests realize they're all marked for death. When they're not busy tripping over the clues, the zany sleuths trip over one another. Learn more...

An Irish-American widower is faced with bringing up four daughters ages seven through seventeen. A believer in democracy and higher education, he runs his family on the parliamentary principle. When daughter Maggie wants to quit college to get married, he refuses permission so Maggie puts it before the family council where he loses. He rejects the council and kick's Maggie's suitor out of the house. The four daughters declare war on father--who finally surrenders to the marriage. Learn more...

The Long Beach Playhouse presents Neil Simon's comedy The Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution at the age of 47 before it's too late. Unfortunately for him, he has no experience with adultery. It's a laugh-a-minute as Barney tries to consummate an affair with a series of women -- with a noticeable lack of success. Learn more...

The Long Beach Playhouse fundraiser features a full evening of activities, with guest stars such as Noah Gray-Cabey from ABC's My Wife and Kids, actresses Lee Meriwether, Beverly Garland and more. Tickets include wine and soft drinks, food from 12 of the finest local restaurants, live music, entertainment and an awards presentation. Learn more...

Spend an outrageous weekend at the English home of an American ambassador who sweet-talks his wife, chases his attractive neighbor and has his head turned by his daughter's boyfriend, who is disguised in a dress. Throw in a clumsy secretary, a gung-ho military man and a butler to end all butlers and you are guaranteed an evening of madcap merriment. Learn more...

One of the stage's best-known and funniest comedies, Neil Simon's The Odd Couple is the classic story of two divorced men, one a neatnik and the other a slob, who try living together with tempestuous results. If you've never seen Simon's most famous comedy performed live before, here's your chance. If you have, you know how much fun you're in store for! Learn more...

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, one of the longest-running and most popular plays in theatre history, is presented by the Long Beach Playhouse. Don't miss this "charming whodunit that delights audiences around the globe!" Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents Woody Allen's classic stage comedy about a lonely man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart and his way with women: Play It Again Sam. Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents the classic family comedy that has been charming audiences for over 60 years: Arsenic and Old Lace on the MainStage. Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents George S. Kaufman & Howard Teichmann's endearing and enduring comedy about a little old lady who takes on a giant coroporation: Solid Gold Cadillac. Learn more...

The Long Beach Playhouse presents Roy Battochio's Thicker Than Water, an old-fashioned comedy where murder runs in the family! Learn more...

Widely regarded as Brian Friel's masterpiece, the extraordinary play Dancing at Lughnasa is the story of five unmarried sisters, one with a young son, eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. It won the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play, and the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play. Learn more...