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.
Clowning around with Lorenzo Pisoni at the A.C.T.
What does it feel like to be five years old and locked in a trunk with a dummy that looks exactly like you?
Review: ‘War Horse’ at the SHN Curran commands breathless attention
While the show is smart enough to throw in bits of comedy, be it an insouciant toss of a tail, or fat, self-important geese waddling into stage center, you hope against hope for the unlikely happy ending, weighing the grimness of World War I, against the need for resolution.
Return to Middle Earth with Charles Ross
On stages like this, the actor’s craft is laid bare. This performance had nary a stick of scenery or stitch of costume, and only the most humble of light and sound design. Ross romanced his crowd for a solid 70 minutes, with only the briefest of water breaks.
A Dream of Freedom: ‘Cavalia’ review, plus rare video interview with founder Normand Latourelle
The thundering of the horse hooves, the mysteries of the video and even the cool air that hits the audience in the face when it rains on stage are guaranteed to take you out of your virtual life and get you re-centered back in the world of your senses.
Review: They Did It! ‘My Fair Lady’ at SF Playhouse
SF Playhouse's 'My Fair Lady' is such a purified extract of the Lerner and Lowe original that you'll be clapping along with the audience, and singing "Get Me to the Church on Time" for days afterwards.
San Francisco Theater: ‘Sweeney Todd’ and the Eureka’s demon acoustics
During intermission, the audience fell into two camps – those who insisted that the sound issues were due to the musicians playing too loudly, and those who opined that the acoustics were to blame.
Review: ‘Les Misérables’ opens at the Orpheum (plus photos!)
Almost everyone I know, regardless of age, places themselves behind the barricades with the students. However, something more obvious is happening...
Custom-made Shakespeare: ‘Merchant of Venice’
While strutting their cells phones, investments and irony, the cast seemed so at home in this language that they brought the text to a whole new level
First Fruit of the Summer: Merolini
This operatic program may be less well known than Harvard, but it's roughly twice as competitive.
Quintessentially American: ‘Nixon in China’ at San Francisco Opera
Soprano Hye June Lee’s coloratura aria "I am the Wife of Chairman Mao," left the audience breathless with its ferocity. For all the vocal pyrotechnics of the evening, her performance took what could have easily been a painfully long act, and transformed it into a spellbinding moment.
