International City Theatre — Attraction in Long Beach

Caryn Desai provides Long Beach with superior theater. Her last production, Arthur Miller's The Price, is well written, directed with skill and subtlety, and beautifully acted. The set is fabulous.

I am a season ticket subscriber and have been for many years. I never ask which plays make up the season because it doesn't matter. The plays never disappoint. They are always exceptional.

The theater is beautiful and Ms. Desai meets every theater goer as they enter the theater. And there's no bad seat in the house.

Ticket prices are reasonable and well worth the price of admission.

Dennis will assign you the best seats available. He is fabulous.

You won't find better theater anywhere...the Ahmanson, Dorothy Chandler, Mark Taper. International City Theatre (ICT) matches and often surpasses any theater anywhere. And we're so lucky to have ICT right here...

Every season the Long Beach International City Theatre surprises us. Leaves us walking out wanting more. And then waking up the next day still talking about it. This season, that surprise is Under the Skin, by playwright Michael Hollinger. This is a sly, witty but very poignant play that does what all great live drama does: Grabs you and takes you somewhere you didn’t expect to go with its very simple but very profound message. The acting, staging and crisp direction quickly transport you into this drama. Intermission and all, it’s over before you know it – and you wish it wasn’t. The professionals at ICT know what they are doing. They have out-done...

Review: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, at the International City Theatre, through November 3rd.

Billie Holiday is born again through Karole Foreman's brutally honest performance, which is impeccably acted and sung. It recreates one of the jazz legend's last concerts. Supporting Foreman's performance is Musical Director Stephan Terry as piano man, lover, caretaker, confidante Jimmy Powers. With deep humanity, Lady Day sings the unvarnished truth about her struggles with racism and addiction. Wren T. Brown masterly directs this unspairing tour de force Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This unbroken 90 minute play is not...