Lobby Hero

During its 2025 Studio Collaborative Season, the Long Beach Playhouse offers outside, local theatre companies and performing arts organizations the opportunity to produce their own shows in LBP's Studio Theater.

LOBBY HERO
Playing in the Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theater

July 19 – Aug. 16, 2025

By Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by Carl DaSilva

In Kenneth Lonergan’s brilliant comedic drama, LOBBY HERO, we met Jeff, the luckless young security guard in the lobby of a New York apartment building. Berated by his tightly wound supervisor William, clueless in the presence of local hero cop Bill, and hopeless in the presence of Bill’s attractive rookie partner, Dawn, Jeff can’t help but say the wrong thing at the wrong time. But when everyone is drawn into a local murder investigation, truth becomes elusive and justice proves costly in this irrepressible show that demonstrates the unintended consequences of good intentions.