Cy Ashley Webb
Cy spent the ‘80’s as a bench scientist, the tech boom doing intellectual property law, and the first decade of the millennium, aspiring to be the world’s oldest grad student at Stanford where she is interested in political martyrdom. Presently, she enjoys writing for Stark Insider and the SF Examiner, hanging out at Palo Alto Children's Theatre, and participating in various political activities. Democracy is not a spectator sport! Cy is a SFBATCC member.
Only The Best: The Nights of Madrid
Leave it to a group focused upon historically informed Baroque music – the same stuff that could be voted most likely to be museum pieces – to develop a concert format for the 21st century.
A look at the rag trade… by the Ives Quartet
Harrison’s remarks about Bolcom feeling like an un-selfconsciously American composer apply here because Bolcom’s confidently letting parts of the European musical toolbox (like serial sequences) go crazy within an exclusively American frame.
The Waltz, the Waltz… Do you Hear a Waltz?
This comparison of European and American attitudes toward marital fidelity suggests that while Americans aren’t as sophisticated as we like to think, we were far more sophisticated in the early ‘60s than we tend to remember.
Prepare to be Wowed: Bill Irwin & David Shiner at ACT in ‘Old Hats’ (Review)
Old Hats is about growing older in a clown’s body – a subject near and dear to those who feebly thwart increasing decrepitude.
An Audience with Meow Meow
Don’t think for a minute that she’ll give you any of that Je ne veux pas dejeuner stuff.
Rigoletto – Opera San Jose delivers another classic
Rigoletto's so direct and so fast paced, it’s as if the bel canto world of Bellini and Rosetti never happened.
‘Wicked’ defies gravity in San Jose (Review)
'Wicked' leaves you leaving the theater with a spring in your step and a slightly bigger heart, which is a taller order than all the green “ozmopolitans” offered at the bar during intermission
Water by the Spoonful (Review)
Zilah Mendoza’s nuanced performance of Odessa stands alone; so many threads of so many people run through this character and Mendoza does justice to them all.
San Francisco: ‘Buyer & Cellar’ a delicious romp (Review)
These old timey shoppes are taken straight out of Streisand’s 2010 book "My Passion for Design", which one imagines the diva dictating and photographing while in an extremis Martha Stewart moment.
Cops and Robbers: Violence and moral culpability in Oakland (Review)
Seventeen different voices, each with a different perspective, sketch out unexpected boundaries of moral culpability in Oakland.
