Cinderella's Magical Christmas at Helen Borgers Theatre

This holiday season, the Long Beach Shakespeare Company welcomes audiences into a festive, heartfelt re-imagining of the beloved fairytale with Cinderella's Magical Christmas, written and directed by Terry Hill and produced by Holly Leveque. Featuring a rich musical score drawn from the timeless catalogues of Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, and Jerome Kern, this joyous production blends familiarity with fresh perspective—because in this version, the story we love gets a few new twists.In Cinderella's Magical Christmas, the stepmother is not the stereotypical villain, but a woman wrestling with misplaced anger, and the stepsisters are not grotesque caricatures, but teenagers finding their way. The production retains the magic of the pumpkin carriage, the stroke of midnight, and the glass slipper—but it also invites us to reconsider family dynamics, identity, and forgiveness in a gently modern light.