{"id":185498,"date":"2026-02-20T02:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:29:07","slug":"christian-lee-navarro-to-direct-antony-and-cleopatra-at-long-beach-shakespeare-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185498\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Lee Navarro to Direct ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at Long Beach Shakespeare Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            \ud83c\udfad NEW! Los Angeles Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-subtitle\" style=\"color: #cccccc; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; line-height: 1.5; font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;\">\n            Get all the top news &amp; discounts for Los Angeles &amp; beyond.\n        <\/p>\n<p>]]><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Shakespeare Company will present Antony and Cleopatra as the second production of its 2026 season. Subtitled Legends Among Us, the new adaptation is conceived and directed by Christian Lee Navarro and produced by Holly Leveque.<\/p>\n<p>            \ud83c\udfad NEW! Los Angeles Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-subtitle\" style=\"color: #cccccc; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; line-height: 1.5; font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;\">\n            Get all the top news &amp; discounts for Los Angeles &amp; beyond.\n        <\/p>\n<p>]]><\/p>\n<p>Performances will run Friday through Sunday, March 7\u201322, at the Helen Borgers Theatre, 4250 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The production reimagines the staging to bring audiences into close proximity with the action, reframing the relationship between performers and space. The adaptation focuses on themes of power, desire, loyalty, and identity as the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra unfolds against political upheaval.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro\u2019s concept presents a streamlined interpretation of Shakespeare\u2019s text, designed to highlight the emotional and political tensions at the center of the play.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket Information<\/p>\n<p>Performances take place at the Helen Borgers Theatre in Long Beach. For tickets and information, call (562) 997-1494.<\/p>\n<p>]]><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t ]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfad NEW! Los Angeles Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news &amp; discounts for Los Angeles &amp; beyond.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-185498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}