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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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 28, 2008

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 28, 2008

• Los Angeles Japan Film Festival 2008 - Atagoal's Cat Magical Forest

  Can a fat cat save the world from serene conformity?

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 27, 2008

• Los Angeles Japan Film Festival 2008 - Hula Girls

  Can young girls and a tropical dance save a small mining town?

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 27, 2008

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 27, 2008

• Theater Review: My Fair Lady (LA)

  This gorgeous production provides a wonderful evening of tunes, costumes, and comedy. It's too loverly to miss.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 26, 2008

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 26, 2008

• 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.

  Opinion by Purple Tigress — on Jan 13, 2008

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Jun 02, 2007

• 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.

  Interview by Purple Tigress — on May 30, 2007

• Theater Review: Bleed Rail Is a Bloody Mess

  ... a testament to a liberal bleeding heart writer, hemorrhaging with good intentions.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on May 29, 2007

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on May 06, 2007

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 14, 2007

• Theater Review: Civic Duty and 12 Angry Men

  This revival of Reginald Rose's classic play burns with righteous fervor.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 14, 2007

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Mar 31, 2007

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Feb 17, 2007

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Feb 14, 2007

• 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?

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Feb 04, 2007

• Broadway-Bound Musicals - Curtains and Sister Act: The Musical

  Reality isn't what one expects.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Jan 15, 2007

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Nov 01, 2006