theatre company continues their 2016 season with tiger it is about squabbling siblings albert and jennifer chen. as adults, they are epic failures. he has been passed up for a promotion and she has been dumped by her loser boyfriend. >> i hear mom and that's comforting words over and over again. suck it up. karen: they confront their parents and launch, of course, parenting, and success with wit and sharp humor. playwright mike lu joins us in the theater. this is your first time at the huntington. i have to ask, where the title, tiger style come from? >> i am riffing on the book, battle hymn of the t m i felt like the dialogue was very un-cited and so -- one-sided, and so all throughout my early career i would get this coded suggestion to write about my family, which means, "write about immigrant tales." i am third generation chinese. but when this book came out, i thought i could have high and sort of the struggles of a culture rating here. it is meant to be a playful risk. karen: it is somewhat autobiographical? >> my parents are coming to see it, so no, but my sister and i were ivy league ki