Rumors at Long Beach Playhouse

BEN AND GEORGE to Premiere at Hollywood Film Festival

Two friends, Ben and George are forced to share a room. They begin to form a fast friendship with an underlying unspoken romance that uplifts them both. So, they decide to get an apartment together. When Ben begins asserting his dominance in the household, George withdraws. Ben starts bringing around new friends making George a little jealous and a little crazy. Will these two reconcile their differences and have a beautiful romance? or Will George kill Ben? Find out in the newest dark comedy from fringe veteran Lorne Stevenson. 

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR Opens at the Long Beach Playhouse

The Long Beach Playhouse opens its 2019 season with Lauren Gunderson's play entitled Exit, Pursued by a Bear. In the play Nan is trapped in an unhappy marriage with a man named Kyle. A fan of Shakespeare, she and her best friend, Simon, along with a stripper named Sweetheart, decide recreating dramatic reenactments of their marriage might help husband Kyle see the error of his ways.

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR Coming Soon To The Long Beach Playhouse

The Long Beach Playhouse opens its 2019 Studio Season with Lauren Gunderson's play entitled Exit, Pursued by a Bear. The play's subtitle is 'A Revenge Comedy.' It's a play that feels like a mashup between Shakespeare and the Coen Brothers. The protagonist, Nan, is trapped in an unhappy marriage with a man named Kyle. She and her best friend, Simon, along with a stripper named Sweetheart, cook up a plot to reenact scenes from Nan and Kyle's miserable marriage in hopes of helping Kyle understand the ways he's failed her.