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Theater Review: Fahrenheit 451 (South Pasadena, CA)— Ray Bradbury's own scripting and his theater company's production shows promise, but the master of sci-fi short stories isn't the master of the stage yet.
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Theater Review: Don Juan (LA)— Don Juan gets his due at Glendale's A Noise Within. This is a sexy, lustful, and wildly funny revival of Moliere's morality play.
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Los Angeles Japan Film Festival 2008 - Atagoal's Cat Magical Forest— Can a fat cat save the world from serene conformity?
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Los Angeles Japan Film Festival 2008 - Hula Girls— Can young girls and a tropical dance save a small mining town?
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Los Angeles Japan Film Festival 2008 - Tokyo Cowboys— Is it really still a white man's world, even in Japan? Saft's documentary is another "white man making his fortune in the Orient" tale.
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Theater Review: My Fair Lady (LA) — This gorgeous production provides a wonderful evening of tunes, costumes, and comedy. It's too loverly to miss.
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Los Angeles Japan Film Festival 2008 - Classics and Comics— The Japan Film Festival in Los Angeles turns five years old and suffers from some growing pains.
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Beyond Sweeney Todd: Sondheim on Video— Before Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, Stephen Sondheim's other musicals have been made into movies or had stage productions recorded.
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Theater Review: Things That Need to Be Said - David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face— There's more than narcissism in David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face, making its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Hwang's hometown of Los Angeles.
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The Face of Truth: David Henry Hwang on His New Play, Yellow Face
— You've heard of whiteface, redface, and blackface, but you might not have heard of yellowface.
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Theater Review: Bleed Rail Is a Bloody Mess— ... a testament to a liberal bleeding heart writer, hemorrhaging with good intentions.
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Theater Review: Matt Pelfrey's An Impending Rupture of the Belly, at Pasadena's Carrie Hamilton Theatre— Matt Pelfrey's world premiere play at Pasadena's Carrie Hamilton Theatre delves into urban paranoia, but its unrelenting grimness seems pointless.
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Theater Review: Lisa Loomer's Distracted at the Mark Taper Forum, LA— At LA's Mark Taper Forum, Loomer catalogs various ADHD theories as a mother attempts to resolve her son's behavioral problems.
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Theater Review: Civic Duty and 12 Angry Men— This revival of Reginald Rose's classic play burns with righteous fervor.
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Theater Review: Gilgamesh and Man of La Mancha - Contemplation on War and Warriors— March is the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War, so it is fitting that we think about war and warriors.
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Theater Review: John Patrick Shanley's Defiance: Trouble Marine-Style, Circa 1971— In the second of a trilogy, Shanley takes on the US Marines for another thought-provoking ninety minutes at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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Theater Review: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?— Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin turn up the marital heat and hate at the Ahmanson in downtown Los Angeles.
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Theater Review: 13 at LA's Mark Taper Forum— That unlucky number becomes a squeaky clean musical, but is it for younger kids or adults?
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Broadway-Bound Musicals - Curtains and Sister Act: The Musical— Reality isn't what one expects.
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Theater Review: The America Play is a Strange Slice of Americana— Pulitzer winner Suzan-Lori Parks' play is a journey through the consciousness of African American history.
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Theater Review: Doubt and Grace Raise Questions About Religious Faith
— Faith and courage to find God in daily life with love and sex are hot topics and given different treatments in two plays in L.A.
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Theater Review: Ray Bradbury's Autumn People Has A Thoughtful Halloween— Ray Bradbury's Autumn People is a slight commentary on people in an old-fashioned science fiction framwork.
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Theater Review: Back of the Throat Illustrates Wartime Stress on Targeted Ethnic Minorities— The Furious Theatre Company presents a witty black comedy, Back of the Throat, about Muslims in post-9/11 America.
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Theater Review: Without Walls and With Too Many Expositional Passages— Watching Laurence Fishburne is delightful, yet one gets the feeling Alfred Uhry has dumbed things down.
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Theater Review: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure Is a Romantic Comedy— Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, at the Pasadena Playhouse, is a pleasant, romantic comedy that might displease purists.
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Theater Review: The Winchester House - The Architecture of Memories— Under the sensitive direction of Chay Yew, Julia Cho's provocative The Winchester House, Pasadena's Boston Court Theatre, explores the architecture of traumatic memories.
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Theater Review: The Black Rider - The Casting of the Magic Bullets— Imagery is everything in this lushly visual, overlong musical revival now playing at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Theater Review: iWitness Proves One Man Can Make a Difference— In 1943, Franz Jagerstatter died for his fellow Austrians, Christianity, and Austrian Jews. Once he was thought a fool, now a hero.
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Theater Review: A Modern Political Rendering of As You Like It— The Cornerstone Theater Company's adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It takes gender-bending into sexual preference politics at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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Theater Review: Arms and the Man - Laughing at the Flag-Waving Masses— George Bernard Shaw’s war satire gets sparkingly revival by Glendales' classic repertory theater, A Noise Within.
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Theater Review: A Picture of Dorian Gray - A Portrait of Homoerotic Love— The Theatre at Boston Court in Pasadena, CA presents a timely production.
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Theater Review: The Importance of Being Earnest— Ahmanson's "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Los Angeles has top notch production values yet the play suffers from the audience's familiarity.
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Theater Review: Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates— In its world premiere at the Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum, the play wanders aimlessly and indecisively, failing to make a cohesive point about American imperialism.
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Living Near Hollywood - It's a Wonderful Life— One of the wonderful things about living near Hollywood is that you get a better crop of actors available for faithful favorites.
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The Drowsy Chaperone: Deconstructing the 1920 Broadway Musical— When you first hear about this new musical, "The Drowsy Chaperone," you wonder: Why would anyone want to make a 1920s style musical in 2005--take us back instead of pushing...
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Othello: The Racial Template Placed on Shakespeare's Classic— By placing a racial template on Shakespeare's classic play, "Othello," we are perhaps missing the true feeling of exoticism and the tenuous visual divide between black and white.
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Henrik Ibsen's "The Master Builder": The Seduction of Youth— When a younger girl inspires an older man, ignoring the feelings of her family and stepping into a paternalistic relationship, is that something worth jumping on couches over? Henrik Ibsen's 1892 play, "The Master Builder," mixed mythology with social commentary
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