{"id":150,"date":"2011-02-17T10:30:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/?p=150"},"modified":"2015-11-12T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T03:22:35","slug":"michael-learned-and-granville-van-dusen-in-long-beach-southern-comforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/michael-learned-and-granville-van-dusen-in-long-beach-southern-comforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Learned and Granville Van Dusen in Long Beach &#8220;Southern Comforts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2013  Michael Learned and Granville Van Dusen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/shows\/long-beach-play-southern-comforts.html\">find unexpected love in Southern Comforts<\/a>.\u00a0 Four-time Emmy award-winning actress Michael Learned and veteran actor Granville Van Dusen find unexpected love in Kathleen Clark\u2019s perceptively witty and poignant play, Southern Comforts, directed by Jules Aaron. The four-week run opens March 18 at International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Low-priced previews take place on March 15, 16 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>A delightful, sneakily sexy, romance, Southern Comforts follows the development of a December-December relationship between a feisty widow and a crusty widower who find love late in life. Recovering from the loss of their respective spouses, the saucy Southern belle who is used to getting her own way and the retired, set-in-his-ways Yankee find in each other what they least expected: a second chance at love.<\/p>\n<p>Four-time Emmy award-winning Michael Learned is best known for her role as Olivia Walton on the CBS family drama series The Waltons.<\/p>\n<p>International City Theatre is located in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center at 300 E. Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach. For reservations and information, call the ICT Box Office at (562) 436-4610<\/p>\n<p>WHEN:<br \/>\nPreviews: March 15, 16, 17 at 8 pm<br \/>\nPerformances: March 18 through April 10<br \/>\nTuesday at 8 pm: March 15 (preview)<br \/>\nWednesday at 8 pm: March 16 (preview)<br \/>\nThursdays at 8 pm: March 17 (preview), 24, 31; April 7<br \/>\nFridays at 8 pm: March 18 (Opening Night), 25; April 1, 8<br \/>\nSaturdays at 8 pm: March 19, 26; April 2, 9<br \/>\nSundays at 2 pm: March 20, 27; April 3, 10<\/p>\n<p>WHERE:<br \/>\nINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE<br \/>\nLong Beach Performing Arts Center<br \/>\n300 East Ocean Blvd.<br \/>\nLong Beach CA 90802<br \/>\n(562) 436-4610 or InternationalCityTheatre.org<\/p>\n<p>TICKETS: Opening Night: $55 (includes reception following the performance)<br \/>\nFriday, Saturday, Sunday: $44<br \/>\nThursday: $37<br \/>\nPreviews: $29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2013 Michael Learned and Granville Van Dusen find unexpected love in Southern Comforts.\u00a0 Four-time Emmy award-winning actress Michael Learned and veteran actor Granville Van Dusen find unexpected love in Kathleen Clark\u2019s perceptively witty and poignant play, Southern Comforts, directed by Jules Aaron. The four-week run opens March 18 at International City Theatre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[83,84],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-long-beach-theatre","tag-michael-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}