Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre
5021 E. Anaheim St. Long Beach CA 90804- Phone:
- 562-494-1014
- Website:
- http://www.lbph.com/Mainset.htm
- Capacity:
- 98
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Current Events on Goldstar
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Past Events on Goldstar
On the Verge: The Journey of Three Female Explorers into Terra Incognita
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Three Victorian women go on an exploration adventure into what they believe to be a new land, which they call Terra Incognita. The three each exhibit independence in a pre-feminist society. As the landscape... Learn More.
The Violet Hour, a Dramatic Comedy by Richard Greenberg
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
If you could see into the future, would any of your choices change? John Pace Seavering is about to find out. Starting a publishing company in 1919 is no easy task, especially when his best friend and his... Learn More.
Spinning Into Butter: A Hard-Hitting Drama About Race
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Long Beach Playhouse presents Rebecca Gilman's play Spinning Into Butter. When an African-American student at a small Vermont college is the subject of racist harassment, the school's dean is forced to... Learn More.
Real Women Have Curves: Poignant Comedy at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
The Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre hosts Real Women Have Curves. Josefina Lopez's play is the hilarious yet moving story of five Mexican-American women struggling to save their tiny East L.A. sewing... Learn More.
Dark Comedy Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Betty is looking forward to a relaxing vacation at the ocean. But Trudy, whom she knows only slightly, chatters incessantly; and then there are the other housemates - sexy lout Buck, who's pathologically on... Learn More.
Mitch Albom's Comedy And The Winner Is at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Tyler Johnes, a self-obsessed movie star, is finally nominated for an Oscar -- but dies the night before the awards. Outraged at his bad luck and determined to know if he wins, he bargains with a heavenly... Learn More.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama Rabbit Hole at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Long Beach Playhouse presents David Lindsay-Albaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the aftermath of a life-shattering tragedy. A thoughtful, honest and compassionate study of heartbreak and forgiveness... Learn More.
Suspense Thriller Dead Guilty at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
In suspense thriller Dead Guilty, a young woman deals with the consequences of an adulterous affair. As Julia recovers at home following a car crash that killed her lover, she develops a friendship with her... Learn More.
Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Considered by many critics to be playwright Neil Simon's best work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers is drawn from Simon's own experiences growing up in New York City. This coming of age dramedy... Learn More.
Side Man: Tony Award-Winning Drama at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Long Beach Playhouse presents Side Man. This touching, comic drama won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1999. Spanning over three decades, it's the story of Gene, a jazz trumpet player, and the turmoil his... Learn More.
Comedy Bedroom Farce from Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Trevor and Susannah are on the verge of a breakup--and they're determined to take their friends and family down with them. As the evening progresses, this unstable pair travels from bedroom to bedroom,... Learn More.
Lanford Wilson's Comic Drama Fifth of July from Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates... Learn More.
Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Written by comedy legend Steve Martin, Picasso supposes a meeting between two of history's greatest minds, Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, in a Paris cafe in 1904. This absurd, comedic play premiered in... Learn More.
Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Long Beach Playhouse presents Lynn Nottage's multiple award-winning drama Intimate Apparel. In 1905 Manhattan, an African-American seamstress creates custom lingerie for women of the boudoir and the brothel... Learn More.
Beloved Classic Little Women Live on Stage at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Little Women, one of the most widely read novels in the English language, comes to life in a new production at Long Beach Playhouse's Studio Theatre. Louisa May Alcott's cherished story about family life and... Learn More.
Romantic Comedy Bus Stop from Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $24.00
- Our Price:
- $12.00
An American classic, this romantic comedy by award-winning playwright William Inge inspired the 1956 film starring Marilyn Monroe. When a raging snowstorm blows into a Kansas town, eight unlikely strangers... Learn More.
Alan Ayckbourn's Comedy How the Other Half Loves from Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $12.00
How the Other Half Loves is an ingenious comedy that juggles time and space to present the lives and loves, passion and panic of three married couples. Like all of Ayckbourn's comedies, it is about the... Learn More.
Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit: Classic Comedy at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $12.00
Long Beach Playhouse presents Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, a classic farce in which a novelist invites a medium to conduct a séance in his home, hoping to expose her as a fraud. Instead, the medium succeeds... Learn More.
Spine-Tingling Thriller Wait Until Dark at the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $12.00
Wait Until Dark is a masterfully constructed thriller about a blind girl, alone in a Greenwich Village apartment, who is stalked by vicious drug smugglers. This tense drama by the author of Dial "M" for... Learn More.
Witty Literary Comedy Bunbury at the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $12.00
When Bunbury learns he's only a fictitious character who never appears in The Importance of Being Earnest, he uses his anonymity to infiltrate and alter classic literature, starting by giving Romeo and... Learn More.
Parenthood Comedy Little Footsteps at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $13.00
Ben and Joanie, in their mid-thirties and married eight years, are an upwardly mobile "yuppie" couple about to become parents for the first time. Little Footsteps is a funny and cautionary examination of the... Learn More.
After Play: Story of Two Couples' Bittersweet Reunion, By Anne Meara
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $24.00
- Our Price:
- $13.00
The Long Beach Playhouse presents After Play. The acclaimed playwriting debut of actress Anne Meara, perhaps best known for her work with Jerry Stiller in the comedy duo Stiller and Meara, it concerns two... Learn More.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Crimes of the Heart at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $13.00
The Long Beach Playhouse presents Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic drama Crimes of the Heart, the story of three sisters surviving crisis after crisis in a small Mississippi town. Warm-hearted,... Learn More.
Pulitzer- & Tony Award-Winning Play That Inspired the 2005 Film Proof
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
After Catherine's father, a famous mathematician, dies, Catherine is left to deal with her own emotions, her estranged sister, and the attentions of a former student of her father's. A burgeoning romance and... Learn More.
Long Beach Playhouse Presents Visiting Mister Green
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
Ross Gardiner got more than he bargained for when a judge ordered him to visit the elderly man he hit with his car. He got a friend. Jeff Baron's Visiting Mister Green explores the relationship between two... Learn More.
Behind the Scenes of "Gone With the Wind" in Moonlight and Magnolias
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00
It's 1939, and Hollywood producer David O. Selznick has shut down production on the film everyone tells him can't be made, "Gone With the Wind." Desperate but determined, he brings in a new writer and a... Learn More.
Wartime Drama Tracers at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $11.00
Tracers is a powerful, unsettling and ultimately devastating account of the Vietnam War, written (and first performed) by men who were there. A composite or collage of interrelated scenes, the play follows... Learn More.
"Titanic" Mystery Scotland Road at the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
In the last decade of the twentieth century, a beautiful young woman in nineteenth-century clothing is found floating on an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. When rescued, she says only one word... Learn More.
Victorian Drama The Heiress at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Suggested by Henry James' novel Washington Square, this play, set in 1850s New York, tells the story of a shy and plain young girl who falls desperately in love with a delightful young fortune hunter. Her... Learn More.
Driving Miss Daisy, Onstage at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, Driving Miss Daisy is a warm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an... Learn More.
Diva Dish: Showbiz Gossip from the Son of a Hollywood Star
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Welcome to the world of Luke Yankee, son of Broadway and Hollywood actress Eileen Heckart. In Diva Dish, his one-man show playing at the Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre, he invites you into a world you'... Learn More.
Clever Thriller Postmortem at the Studio Theatre
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.50
Long Beach Playhouse presents Ken Ludwig's thriller Postmortem about an eccentric playwright who tries to solve a case a la Sherlock Holmes. This play from the author of Lend Me a Tenor and Sullivan &... Learn More.
A.R. Gurney's Sylvia at the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
In A.R. Gurney's Sylvia, Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public... Learn More.
Quality of Light at the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Long Beach Playhouse presents the world premiere of Quality of Light, winner of the New Works Festival. In the south of France, two lovers, an older woman, and a younger man meet by chance. For two days the... Learn More.
Mystery Spoof ...And Then There Was Nun
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
This hysterical take-off on famous movie stars who are involved in an Agatha Christie-type murder mystery is a spoof to end all spoofs. The good Sisters of a religious order, Sisters Vivien, Bette, Mae,... Learn More.
Mafia Comedy Breaking Legs at the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The worlds of the Mafia and the theatre clash hilariously when a professorial playwright seeks funding for his new play from the family of a former student. The "family" turns out to be Mafia godfathers who... Learn More.
Neil Simon's Showbiz Comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Neil Simon pays homage to his early days as a "junior joke smith" on the Sid Caesar Show where each writer tried to top the gags of the other writers. Fast and furious comedy occurs when the gags flow as... Learn More.
Murder by the Book at the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
This sassy, wickedly witty British suspense/thriller will boggle your mind with its delicious repartee and enough one-up-manship, twists and turns to satisfy all armchair detectives. Peppered with laughs and... Learn More.
Intimate Comedy Educating Rita On Stage at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Familiar from the film version starring Michael Caine and Julie Water, this play revolves around a painfully funny and passionately serious relationship between Frank, a disillusioned English tutor, and Rita... Learn More.
Over The Tavern - A Comedy about Catholic School
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.50
Rudy Pazinski is only in the 7th grade, but he's already too smart for his own good. Rather than just memorize the catechism, he keeps asking questions -- something which Sister Clarissa doesn't approve of. ... Learn More.
Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie at Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Based on the book by Mitch Albom, this dramatization of his tribute to his college professor creates a moving portrait of their relationship in which his Mentor's enthusiasm for living is delivered with... Learn More.
Comic Thriller Corpse from the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Long Beach Playhouse presents Gerald Moon's comic thriller about twin brothers plotting to do each under in: Corpse at the Studio Theatre. Learn More.
The Miracle Worker at the Long Beach Playhouse
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Long Beach Playhouse presents William Gibson's beloved play The Miracle Worker. This stirring dramatization of the story of Helen Keller is one of the most successful and warmly admired plays of the modern... Learn More.
Wendy Wasserstein's Comedy The Heidi Chronicles
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Long Beach Playhouse presents Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer- and Tony Award-Winning comedy The Heidi Chronicles in the Studio Theatre. Learn More.
Clifford Odets's Golden Boy
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Clifford Odets's acclaimed play about conflicted boxer Joe is one of the American stage's classic dramas: Golden Boy at the Long Beach Playhouse. Learn More.
Tony Award Winning Comedy Shirley Valentine
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Shirley Valentine is an ordinary middle-class housewife who dreams of escaping her unappreciative husband to find romance and adventure in Greece. Willy Russell's comedy Shirley Valentine won multiple Drama... Learn More.
World Premiere of Historic Drama Hattie
Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Hattie McDaniel, America's first Black Oscar winner, fought for the role of Mammy in Gone With the Wind, but with fame came personal turmoil. The world premiere of William Blinn's play Hattie explores her... Learn More.
Map and Directions
The Long Beach Playhouse is located at near the corner of Anaheim & Pacific Coast Highway.
Handicap Information
The Studio Theatre is located upstairs, without elevator access.
Handicap seating is not available at this venue through Goldstar.