The Beach Theatre Play Festival
September 19th - 21st
The Beach Theatre Play Festival is a multi-day event featuring an exciting lineup of staged readings that showcase both emerging and established playwrights, directors, and performers from across the bay area. Each performance is crafted to surprise, provoke, and entertain—ranging from heartwarming dramas and laugh-out-loud comedies to bold experimental pieces. The festival provides a platform for new voices to be heard. Audiences can expect engaging talkbacks with the playwrights and artists after the performance. Whether you're a seasoned theatre lover or a curious newcomer, the Beach Theatre Play Festival invites you to experience the magic of theatre at its ground level, the Staged Reading.
***Note: some performances have content warnings. Please check all content warnings before purchasing tickets.***
ROMEO, ROMEO a farce by Alaina Rahaim Miller
More info coming soon!
BIONIC by Jenna Jane
Content warnings include infertility, profanity, brief mention of suicide, sexual references, references to racism, discussion of death. This play is recommended for 14+.
This full-length sci-fi drama explores what it means to be human in an increasingly bionic world. In a future where everyone is swapping out their body parts with the latest tech, 81-year-old Donna Goldman is an anomaly. While everyone else is getting solar panel fingernails, 3-D printed vocal cords, and bionic wombs, Donna has chosen to remain 100 percent organic. But now, there's a problem: She's dying. And a bionic body part is the only cure. In a world of humanoid A.I. holograms and corporations that hack your dreams with ads, this play explores whether these “upgrades” bring people closer to their authentic selves or push them farther away.
FLORIDA MAN: THE MUSICAL by Willam Leavengood (Book & Lyrics) & Constantine Grame (Music)
FLORIDA MAN: THE MUSICAL follows the hilarious exploits of Florida Man, Clive, who after being wrongly convicted of a felony— twice— breaks out of jail with the help of his prison guard true-love, Bunny. On the lam and being stalked by a bounty hunter, a vengeful ex-common-law-wife and another jealous Florida Man, Bunny and Clive accidentally become headline making celebrities as they pursue freedom, marriage and living happily ever after.