Curtain Call

RLn’s Curtain Call is dedicated to covering theater in the Los Angeles Harbor Area. Whether it Long Beach’s ICT, Garage Theatre, Little Fish Theatre, TE San Pedro Rep you can find it here.

The State of the Theatrical Arts in Long Beach

Whether or not the Los Angeles Times’s recent “52 Best Places to See Plays and Musicals in Southern California” comes…

1 week ago

Best of Long Beach Theatre, 2025

  Why didn’t we think of this before?! People love lists, right? In 2025, I saw 20 theatrical works in…

1 month ago

This year, Long Beach Playhouse’s “A Christmas Carol” is a masterclass in theatrical arts

From having seen more than half of Long Beach Playhouse’s 13 prior stagings of A Christmas Carol, I would have…

1 month ago

Garage Theatre’s annual “melodrama” is about as good as it’s gonna get

More than half of the Garage Theatre’s 25 seasons have closed with an installment of co-founder Jamie Sweet’s five-part “melodrama”…

2 months ago

Do you have to be an Alanis acolyte to swallow “Jagged Little Pill: The Musical”?

If you’re not a fan of Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill: The Musical may be a bad fit — yes…

2 months ago

“Heathers: The Musical” superficial but spirited

While fans of the film may be disappointed with the shallower and not especially tuneful Heathers: The Musical, at least…

3 months ago

Ai Weiwei’s Turandot

The revolutionary artist and iconoclastic activist’s selection of this opera, once banned in China, aligns with his challenging of norms.…

4 months ago

Parallel Process Explores Lingering Wounds of Vietnam War at Odyssey Theatre

The conditions depicted in Parallel Process are reflected today in the development of the “About Face” organization of Iraqi and…

4 months ago

“Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”a Simple, Clever, Fun Way to Consume a Classic

Despite having plowed through more than my fair share of Western literary canon, I’ve never read a word of Robert…

4 months ago

“Predictor” an entertaining history of the at-home pregnancy test

The story of how a 20-something woman with no science background designed the first way for women to find out…

4 months ago