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.
Review: Ives Quartet offers Dvorák and Schulhoff
Schuloff’s aching viola train whistle and broken mechanistic end to this 1923 movement seems to foretell the disaster that would follow.
Palo Alto Players open 81st season with a twist
Juanita Harris, as Sister Mary Hubert, had a voice that wouldn’t quit, making “Holier than Thou" the most memorable number in the entire show.
Double Trouble in the ‘City of Angels’
This play offered up that rarity of rarities, a second act that was stronger than the first.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Iconic Theatre: ‘2012 – the Musical’
No humorless left wing hacks, the SFMT laughs at themselves, with characters like “Working Class Man,” and ups the ante by confronting the two-dimensionality of their subject material with a commedia dell'arte approach.
Review: Puppet up with ‘Stuffed and Unstrung’
Short of an opening bit, and two vintage recreations of Jim Henson’s work from the mid 1950’s and early ‘60’s, the entire show involves a dialogue between master-of-ceremonies Patrick Bristow and the audience as he solicits suggestions for short bits that the six puppeteers then perform.
Powerful, Stunning Dance for the New World: Labayen and DanceWright
Taken together, the piece had a ‘60’s feel to it, but in a good way, relieved from the overstated cultural baggage.
Most Fun All Summer: Merola’s ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’
This was not some pompous Il barbiere whose wit dried shortly after the ink from Rossini’s pen.
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire opens at the Dragon
Hagedorn gives us a Blanche who is compos enough to know she needs to confabulate – and compelling enough that she has the audience’s sympathies for a psyche held together with spit and baling wire.
Direct from Sweden: ARRIVAL
There was not a single minute in which someone wasn’t dancing in the aisles or in the boxes – and for large stretches, the entire audience was on their feet.
Book Review: A Tale of Terror in the World Financial Markets
Educated at Harvard and Oxford, IMF economist Rex Ghosh is doing for the econ novel what Abraham Verghese did for the medical novel.
