Long Beach California Repertory Company

Cal Rep Questions Authority With ‘Quills’ a Sadistic Fable

California Repertory Company presents Quills by Doug Wright, directed by guest artist Larissa Paige Kokernot, February 17-March 10. Set during the final year of the infamous Marquis’ incarceration in the insane asylum Cherenton, Quills explores the lengths some will go to silence an inciting voice. The production is presented in partnership with the B-Word Project, [...]

Cal Rep Explodes Into The 2011-12 Season With Part One of a Nuclear Double-Bill

California Repertory Company starts the season with a bang on September 23rd with The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a surreal examination of the father of atomic energy by Carson Kreitzer. The production will be directed by Cal Rep’s acclaimed Artistic Director Joanne Gordon, a recent recipient of the Women in Theatre Red Carpet [...]

California Repertory Company Closes The Season With ‘The Pool of Bethesda’

California Repertory Company completes another triumphant season aboard The Queen Mary with The Pool of Bethesda by Allan Cubitt. The play opens on April 29th and closes on May 14th. It will be directed by Joanne Gordon; Cal Rep’s acclaimed Artistic Director and recent recipient of the Women in Theatre Red Carpet Award. Inspired by [...]

9 Parts of Desire, a Perspective on Love and Courage in a War-Torn World

University Players at California State University, Long Beach, present 9 Parts of Desire, by Heather Raffo, March 18, 2011 through April 9th. The play is co-directed by Anne Justine D’Zmura and Trevor Biship and deals with nine Iraqi women’s perspectives on love and courage in a war-torn world. D’Zmura describes the immediacy of the piece, [...]

In Cal Rep’s Tribades Battle of the Sexes Still Rage On

California Repertory Company announces the opening of their second production of the season on November 19, The Night of the Tribades by Per Olov Enquist. Directed by Thomas Cooke, Tribades explores notorious Scandinavian playwright August Strindberg’s decaying personal life as it explodes onstage when the ultimate chauvinist is subjugated by his wife’s lesbian ecstasy. “I [...]

CAL REP Makes Waves With Odets’ Revolutionary Classic

California Repertory Company begins their second season aboard The Queen Mary on September 24th with Waiting for Lefty: Seeing Red, Clifford Odets’ Depression-set, confrontational drama. Directed by innovative University of California, San Diego theatre professor, Kim Rubinstein, Waiting for Lefty is based on the New York taxi driver strike of 1934. The first of Odets’ [...]

Get swept away by romance with Cal Rep’s The Poetry of Pizza

California Repertory Company celebrates Valentine’s Day with The Poetry of Pizza (a play in four slices), a “cheesy” romantic comedy by Deborah Brevoort. Love will blossom when two unlikely soul mates—an American poetry professor and a Kurdish refugee—find each other in a most unexpected setting—a pizza parlor in Copenhagen. Director Anne Justine D’Zmura explains that, [...]

Cal Rep boards the Queen Mary for 2009-10 season

California Repertory Company will take up residence in the Royal Theatre aboard the retired luxury liner this fall. Joanne Gordon, Cal Rep’s artistic director, says, “The elegant refined glory of the Queen Mary combined with the vibrant exciting aesthetic of Cal Rep is sure to produce a thrilling synergy and an invigorating theatrical experience for [...]

California Repertory Company Presents And the War Came

California Repertory Company presents And the War Came conceived and directed by Joanne Gordon April 24 through May 9. Working at the National Guard Armory has brought a kind of peace to Joanne Gordon, artistic director of California Repertory Company. Gordon grew up in South Africa under apartheid, where she developed a profound mistrust of political [...]