{"id":225644,"date":"2026-03-18T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:55:12","slug":"lil-wayne-presale-ticket-sales-begin-today-for-soon-to-open-long-beach-amphitheater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225644\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne presale ticket sales begin today for soon-to-open Long Beach Amphitheater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rap icon Lil Wayne is set to perform at the still-under-construction Long Beach Amphitheater this summer, and presale tickets for Citi credit cardholders went on sale this morning. <\/p>\n<p>The five-time GRAMMY Award-winning artist is set to perform at the Long Beach waterfront venue on August 1, with special guests 2 Chainz and The Game as part of the venue&#8217;s inaugural season.<\/p>\n<p>Located near the Queen Mary, the city-owned amphitheater will feature grandstands, floor and box seats, with a capacity of 11,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/long-beach-amphitheater-waterfront-open-summer-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Construction began at the site in January<\/a>, and the official opening is scheduled for summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The $21 million amphitheater will be operated and managed by Legends \/ ASM Global, which operates 13 similar facilities nationwide, including the Greek Theatre. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This amphitheater is designed to pay for itself with no operating subsidy from the city,&#8221; City Manager Tom Modica said at January&#8217;s groundbreaking ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that funds for the project came through the city&#8217;s Tideland Funds. &#8220;It all gets paid back through that net operating profit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other<a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachamp.com\/events-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> artists listed on the Long Beach Amphitheater website<\/a> include TOTO, Luke Bryan, Nas &amp; The Roots and M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce.<\/p>\n<p>General public tickets for <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachamp.com\/events-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Lil Wayne: 20 Years of Carter Classics with The Game &amp; 2 Chainz&#8221; <\/a>at the Long Beach Amphitheater begin Friday, March 20, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot-2026-01-14-141633.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-01-14-141633.png \" height=\"346\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Rendering of the Long Beach Amphitheater<\/p>\n<p>                City of Long Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rap icon Lil Wayne is set to perform at the still-under-construction Long Beach Amphitheater this summer, and presale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-225644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225644","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=225644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}