LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL
Monday, November 9th, 2026
The wait is over! 20 years after its National Tour stopped for a brief 2 weeks at the Hollywood Pantages, Little Women The Musical finally gets the major regional production it richly deserves, and the result is a superbly staged and performed Broadway-caliber gem.
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THE LAUGH TRACK
Monday, November 9th, 2026
Situation comedy groundbreakers Bob Carroll and Madelyn Pugh deserve to be saluted, and the cast assembled on the International City Theatre stage to salute them definitely give it their all, but the sitcomish approach playwright Wendy MacLeod has taken in The Laugh Track ends up less successful in execution than it might promise to be on paper.
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CONSCIENCE
Saturday, August 29th, 2026
Decades before lies, chaos, fear, personal attacks, intimidation, and bullying reigned supreme in Washington DC, a senator named Joseph McCarthy set it all in motion by waging war against suspected communists and Senator Margaret Chase Smith in Conscience, Joe DiPietro’s fascinating look back at how much times haven’t changed since 1950.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Monday, July 13th, 2026
Director Larry Raben and choreographer Corey Wright reinvent Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat like it’s never been reinvented before in a Musical Theatre West revival that feels fresh and new and very Gen Z-meets-Gen Alpha.
WARSAW
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026Not everything works in Paul Webb’s Warsaw, but by the time it reaches its cathartic climax, there’s no denying the power the International City Theatre World Premiere achieves in juxtaposing WWII Poland and New York City in the weeks following 9-11.
I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
Saturday, February 21st, 2026
Joe Di Pietro and Jimmy Roberts’ three-decades-old—but still delightfully relevant—smash off-Broadway musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change now gets a smashing 30th-anniversary revival at Long Beach’s International City Theatre
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MAN OF LA MANCHA
Monday, February 16th, 2026
Career-best performances by Richard Bermudez and Monika Peña are just two of the reasons Musical Theatre West’s spectacular 60th-anniversary revival of the 1966 Best Musical Tony winner is a must-see.
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THE CLUB OF BROKEN FASTS
Sunday, January 11th, 2026
John Hughes meets William Shakespeare in Phil S. Gould’s Hollywood Fringe Festival hit The Club Of Broken Fasts, now completing its all-too-short three-performance-only reprise at the Long Beach Playhouse.
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