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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