Long Beach Playhouse

The Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theater is presenting three plays in the first six month’s of the 2023 season. On Jan. 29, Mutual 1 resident Debbi Fudge was in the audience for the first play, Agatha Christie’s “Toward Zero.”

“Alex Piper was suburb playing Neville Strange,” said Debbi. “What a perfect rich playboy persona he characterized with every action and the bored eye rolls! Then Lee Samuel Tanng brought constant smiles to my face with his characterization of Superintendent Battle, those eyebrow lifts.”

“She Kills Monsters,” by Qui Nguyen and directed by Shinshin Yuder Tsai, is the next play, which will run from Feb. 24-March 25. The third offering will be “The Diary of Anne Frank,” by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hacket and directed by Phyllis B. Gitlin.

Residents can use rideshares like Uber or Lyft to attend shows. The Long Beach Playhouse is 3.7 miles from Leisure World. The Sunday 2 p.m. performance tickets are $30. For more information visit www.lbplayhouse. org. —Debbi Fudge