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My Little Tomato: Tasty until it’s not

I really enjoyed My Little Tomato — until I started to get tired of it. It’s audacious, that’s for damn sure. In Rick Tae’s new script, Keaton Chu inherits his parents’ produce farm when they’re killed in a freak accident. Produce wholesaler Joe McKinley interrupts...

Kuroko: All dressed up

Sure, Kim Kardashian wears great clothes, but does she have a soul? There’s a similar problem — although it’s not nearly as severe or creepy — with Kuroko: the production is stunning but, narratively and emotionally, Tetsuro Shigematsu’s script is perfunctory. On...

1 Hour Photo is underdeveloped

There are exquisite elements in 1 Hour Photo. There are also significant problems with the storytelling. For almost its entire length, 1 Hour Photo doesn’t seem to know what it’s about. Writer Tetsuro Shigematsu, who performs the show with musician Steve Charles,...