THE HATMAKER'S WIFE Opens This Weekend at the Long Beach Playhouse
In Lauren Yee's comic fairy tale, The Hatmaker's Wife brings the past to bear on the future as an old couple, Hetchman the hatmaker and his long-suffering wife, tell their story to the couple who has just moved into their old apartment. As the wall shares the magical tale of an old hat-maker and his long-suffering wife time and space bend to redefine the idea of family, home, and true love itself.
THE HATMAKER'S WIFE Opens Soon At The Long Beach Playhouse
In Lauren Yee's comic fairy tale we are introduced to a young woman who moves in with her boyfriend expecting domestic bliss. Instead, she finds a talking wall dispensing sheets of paper with the story of previous inhabitants that only she can hear and see. In place of the happiness she expected, she finds discomfort, displacement, and the realization that she needs more. As the wall shares with her the magical tale of an old hat-maker and his long-suffering wife time and space bend to redefine the idea of family, home, and true love itself.
SHERLOCK HOLMES is On the Case at LBP Mainstage
The Long Beach Playhouse opens its 2018 - 2019 Mainstage Season (The 90th) with Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club by playwright Jeffrey Hatcher. The play explores the question: 'What if Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective found himself in a plot inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson?' The play is set in the heart of London in a windowless house where Europe's most powerful men gather to play a murderous game. On this particular night, the club welcomes a new member, Sherlock Holmes. Does Holmes actually wish to die? Can his friend Dr. Watson save him?
Agatha Christie's BLACK COFFEE Comes to Long Beach Playhouse
In 1930, Agatha Christie wrote Black Coffee as a play featuring her master sleuth Hercule Poirot. In this seldom seen and intricately crafted mystery, Christie weaves scientific discoveries, international espionage, and unimaginable murder together to give the audience a night of unraveling the knots of danger and suspense.