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Landmark announces three upcoming productions

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Landmark is thrilled to announce three upcoming productions, continuing our commitment to challenging works that engage and inspire.  

From the heart of Long Beach, we are presenting a slate of fully realized musical theater productions that illuminate and address the current social climate and issues affecting our local community and the world.

  • Working: A Musical – Opening May 27
  • Jonathan Larsen’s Rent – Fall 2022
  • Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins – Spring 2023

Details have been announced online at https://lblandmark.org/upcoming

Long Beach Gives 2021

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Landmark is thrilled to again be a part of Long Beach Gives. Please consider joining us for our city’s annual day of online giving on September 24.

The 24-hour online fundraiser provides an easy and fun way for our entire city to give together. It also provides Long Beach nonprofits the opportunity to gain exposure and start relationships with new donors. 

In 2020, over 7,000 donors made a difference in the mission-critical services of nonprofits impacting our city.

Long Beach Gives is returning on Thursday, September 23, 2021 with a $2 million goal!

Visit longbeachgives.org to learn more about how you can support this citywide effort!

Landmark Announces Community Engagement Partnership with DAYS Long Beach

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Long Beach Landmark Theatre Company is thrilled to announce a community engagement partnership with DAYS Long Beach: an educational programming and youth development mainstay in the community for over 50 years.

On Friday, June 18, 2021, Landmark was honored to participate in the “Paletas and a Movie” event at Cesar Chavez Elementary School; a family friendly celebration of learning, community, vaccinations, theatre, and paletas!!

Landmark was thrilled to present “The Great Kapok Tree” a bilingual presentation of the book by Lynne Cherry with music by Long Beach’s own Paul Boyd-Batstone.

Landmark cast members perform “The Great Kapok Tree” at the “Paletas & A Movie” event

In collaboration with The Long Beach Unified School District, Dr. Juan Benitez – Board of Education LBUSD District 3, Councilwoman Mary Zendejas, Long Beach Forward, and TCC Family Health, this event was the perfect summer kick-off! 

Long Beach Gives 2020

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Landmark is thrilled to be a part of Long Beach Gives 2020. Early Donations begin on September 17 and the big day is September 24.

Long Beach Gives is our city’s annual day of online giving. The 24-hour online fundraiser provides an easy and fun way for our entire city to give together. It also provides Long Beach nonprofits the opportunity to gain exposure and start relationships with new donors. 

Our goal is to inspire individuals and businesses in our community to come together to make a difference in the exemplary work of the 150+ local, participating nonprofits. The success of Long Beach Gives last year helped raise awareness about nonprofits and the critical role they play in our community. We surpassed our $350,000 fundraising goal and raised over $822,000 for the 93 participating organizations. 

Long Beach Gives is returning on Thursday, September 24, 2020 with a $1 million goal and 150+ participating nonprofits serving the city of Long Beach!

Visit longbeachgives.org to learn more about how you can support this citywide effort!

Upcoming – A “Summer Celebration” & Assassins!

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Next at Long Beach Landmark Theatre Company will be a summertime special event on June 27 – Landmark’s “Summer Celebration”. Details about this event will be forthcoming, but save the date!

Landmark’s next major production will be Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins – opening October 23 and running into November. A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim’s signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation’s culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America’s four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.

REVIEW: “Little Shop of Horrors” — Long Beach Landmark Theatre Company

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“A perfect date night for horticulturists, horror-cultists, sci-fi fans and anyone with a taste for the outrageous.”

“The show, presented by the Long Beach Landmark Theatre Company, has been extended due to wild popularity through November 24th, and is the hot ticket centerpiece of this fall season’s offerings, helmed and choreographed by Landmark’s Artistic Director Megan O’Toole, with near-perfect craftsmanship.“

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Theatre review: Little Shop of Horrors at the Long Beach Landmark Theatre

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An excellent review for Little Shop of Horrors! 

“it’s quite difficult to point out any weak spot of this production” 

“bound to impress audiences through and through.”

“kudos must be paid to the team behind the Long Beach Landmark Theatre: they consistently present strong material worthy of a much larger space. That said, the intimate setting paired with the world class performances is a marvel that should not be changed.”

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Run Extended with a Twilight Matinee!

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The opening weekend of Little Shop of Horrors was a smashing success! We broke our attendance goals and audiences were gushing with praise. With that, we are proud to announce the EXTENSION of the show for an additional weekend Nov 22-24. 

We are also excited to announce that the final Sunday performance will be at an earlier time – 5:00pm. The Courtyard Cafe will be open for a sunset snack and beverage before the show begins just after sundown.

In the News: Theatre Troupe Brings Horrors To First Congregational Church

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A featured article in the Grunion Gazette

Theatre Troupe Brings Horrors To First Congregational Church

A “Little Shop Of Horrors” will be found this month in the sanctuary of Long Beach’s landmark First Congregational Church.

A musical, and one dealing with demonic doings, might seem incongruous to an historic church. But the Landmark Theatre Company has successfully produced plays for the last three years at First Congregational, and artistic director Megan O’Toole has found some justification for this play to be in church.

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