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.
Paul Dresher and the Berkeley Symphony
If you are caught at the end of the world, just look for Paul Dresher; this piece suggests that he’ll be going in the right direction.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s season opener ‘Dioclesian’ is a musical cornucopia
This brilliantly colorful and lithe piece packs in everything from stately processional music, insouciant simpering, country dances, quartets and all-out chorale gut-busters.
Review: ‘Benjamin Britten Centennial’ at New Century
The first movement, “Boisterous Bourée” took me straight back to my high school music comp class.
Review: ‘Beauty’ in all its forms by The DanceWright Project
'Beauty' opens with the lead female sleeping on a couch. She is awakened by dancer Ismael Alvarez, who leers over her. They begin a pas de deux like no other, as she trembles in fear, as this absurdly large man binds her hands and slaps her.
Review: ‘The Death of the Novel’ at San Jose Rep
At heart, Pete Campbell and Sebastian Justice are not that different. While Justice has an idiosyncratic, intelligent wit that Campbell lacks (which makes justice far more entertaining), neither character gets beyond his own narcissism.
Powerbomb! Season Opener ‘Chad Deity’ at Aurora Theatre a Winner
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is like Max Weber coming back to life, taking on a second career in standup, and deconstructing the sport. It’s the missing chapter from Weber’s classic "Economics and Society," updated through a highly warped filter.
Theater Review: ‘Time Stands Still’ funny, fast-moving
A self-styled event planner, Bloom is so colossally unformed and uninformed that it would be easy to dislike her. However, Sarah Moser holds her own, redeems this character, and wins our hearts in spite of ourselves.
Pity the Poor 1%: ‘For the Greater Good, or The Last Election’ (review)
However critical of San Francisco Mime Troupe politics you might be, the bottom line is that they remain stellar performing artists. With impeccable timing, costuming, acting, and blocking, these guys just can’t be faulted.
Review: Lamplighters Music Theatre opens 60th year with ‘The Mikado’
How could irony possibly exist in the land of Titipu, peopled as it is with characters named Yum Yum, Pish-Tush, Pooh Bah, Nanki-Poo, and other appellations that don’t qualify as pseudo-Japanese – and probably didn’t even back in 1885 when it first opened?
Review: Coloud Colors C19M In-Ear Headphones
Construction is so flimsy that a hard week’s regular use would destroy them. Any self-respecting ‘tween in Silicon Valley wouldn’t fall for these.
