Feature: Breaking Legs in Lalaland

Columnists

Purple Tigress

Articles in this feature

Subscribe to feature RSS

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Oct 29, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Oct 29, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Jul 19, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Jun 30, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Jun 02, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on May 20, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on May 06, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 23, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 14, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Apr 06, 2006

• Theater Review: A Picture of Dorian Gray - A Portrait of Homoerotic Love

  The Theatre at Boston Court in Pasadena, CA presents a timely production.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Mar 17, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Feb 20, 2006

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Dec 21, 2005

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Dec 12, 2005

• The Drowsy Chaperone: Deconstructing the 1920 Broadway Musical

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Nov 24, 2005

• 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.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Nov 17, 2005

• 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 and Glendale's A Noise Within presents a complex psychological portrait of a man seduced by youth.

  Review by Purple Tigress — on Nov 13, 2005