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4th Annual Long Beach Poppin' Play Festival
Theatre. Music. Art. A thrilling new happening for Long Beach Arts Month in October, with 11 World-Premiere Plays from some of the best local talent around! This year's festival promises to be the best yet, with stories including hallucinogenic, guilt-and-heavy-metal-fueled wilderness survival tales (Headlights & Bush) and mysterious meditations on the the creative impulse, by way of ghost stories and lost artifacts of ancient A...mericana (Return to Thunder Mountain); tales of the day human beings break down the walls that separate them in dreams (Le Reve Collectif), and the bittersweet terror of the not-so-distant-past (Good Riddance, from the playwright who brought us Entropy General); plus, bravely experimental pieces that ruminate on family (Raised By Wolves), mortality (Garden of Ashes), and Alzheimer's (Bring on the Dancing Girls) - and much, much more!
Theatre. Music. Art. A thrilling new happening for Long Beach Arts Month in October, with 11 World-Premiere Plays from some of the best local talent around! This year's festival promises to be the best yet, with stories including hallucinogenic, guilt-and-heavy-metal-fueled wilderness survival tales (Headlights & Bush) and mysterious meditations on the the creative impulse, by way of ghost stories and lost artifacts of ancient A...mericana (Return to Thunder Mountain); tales of the day human beings break down the walls that separate them in dreams (Le Reve Collectif), and the bittersweet terror of the not-so-distant-past (Good Riddance, from the playwright who brought us Entropy General); plus, bravely experimental pieces that ruminate on family (Raised By Wolves), mortality (Garden of Ashes), and Alzheimer's (Bring on the Dancing Girls) - and much, much more!
Shows:
October 7-8, 21-22, November 4-5, 18-19. Friday @ 8pm. Saturdays @ 7pm & 9pm
Tickets: here or at the box office 30 minutes before showtime
$18 General. $15 Students/Seniors. $10 groups of 10 or more
(email boxoffice@alivetheatre.org for group reservations).
Multi Night Packages: (available for purchase at box office only)
2 Nights- General $30. Students/Seniors $25
3 Nights- General $45. Students/Seniors $40
Lineup:
Friday Night's @ 8:00pm. The Secret World
"Headlights and Bush" by Aaron Van Geem, directed by Eammonn Fox
"Garden of Ashes" by Jan O'Connor, directed by Caprice Spencer Rothe
"Le Reve Collectif" by Robert Edward, directed by Kate Bowen
Saturday Night's @ 6pm. The Bittersweet Terror of the Past!
"Awake from this Noirmare" by Shawn Kathryn Kane, directed by Andrew Eiden (Performed in 3 parts throughout the night)
"Raised by Wolves" by LaToya Morgan, directed by Ricci Dedola
"Good Riddance" by Ryan McClary, directed by Tony Bartolone
Saturday Night's @ 9pm. Tales Beyond Reason!
"Bring on the Dancing Girls" by Susan Eiden, directed by Ricci Dedola
"Rotations" by Bryan Madigan, directed by Ashley Allen
"Dracula" adapted from a story by Abhay Khosla, directed by Robert Edward
"Groove Apocalypse" written and directed by Robert Edward
"Return to Thunder Mountain" by Jasper Oliver, directed by Turner Munch
***What Critics Have Said About Past Festivals***
"Alive Theatre has never been afraid to take chances. That willingness to put themselves out there makes them the type of folk who can successfully mount a new-play festival*+ That's just about as alive as theatre can get."
- Greggory Moore, Greater Long Beach (2010)
"The young company's already an institution; it's received critical acclaim and fan adulation. It's bold, no, scratch that, it's audacious. It's in our face but it's also in our mind. It's audacity challenges us and our hold on our lives, what we hold to be real, to be unreal..."
- James Scarborough, Grunion Gazette (2009)
"Judging by the chemistry of this galvanized group, along with their professionalism and talent, I predict a rash of breakout stars emerging from this group, as well as a thriving future for the company. . .Alive Theatre has the potential to be Long Beach's Steppenwolf (Chicago) or Actors Gang (LA)."
- Marchelle Hammack, Beachcomber Newspaper (2008)
Alive Theatre's 4th Annual Long Beach Poppin' Play Festival is our latest in an award-winning series of new works theatre festivals! Each year, Alive assembles a diverse, committed, and dynamic group of local artists to create a mixed media extravaganza of world premiere plays from local Long Beach & LA-County writers, in an event that combines all manner of artistic disciplines.
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LocationThe Lafayette Dome Room (View)
528 East Broadway
Long Beach, CA 90802
United States
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| Minimum Age: 14 |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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