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.
Cutting Ball San Francisco: Experimental theatre at its best
Quirkly and self-referential, O’Hare can do more with her cheekbones than many actresses can do with the entire body.
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra brings it on home
The SF Symphony Youth Orchestra, under the baton of Donato Cabrera, pulled off this ambitious program with stunning maturity and virtuosity.
Review: ‘The North Pool’ strikes home in Palo Alto
The 2009 suicides of Gunn High School students are still very close to us here, not the least because the number of deaths was far greater than local newspapers indicated.
Separate Tables opens at the Hillbarn
Hillbarn Director Hunt Burdick stood this piece on its head by heightening the action so that it plays as over-the-top British humor instead of high drama.
San Francisco Symphony Review: Kurt Masur conducts Mendelssohn
The primacy of live performance is nowhere more evident than the role played by the six basses that drive the Italian Symphony forward.
Zheng Cao wins audience with PBO
Central to the piece were the hints of Carabino (a piece sung by both Flicka and Cao – who both donned buckles worn by Maria Callas for the occasion).
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: Tradition, Influence, Evolution
Reviewing theatre, there’s a checklist one ticks off when approaching a new show: set, makeup, acting, costumes, script, interpretation, sound system, dropped cues… the list goes on. When reviewing classical music, the list isn’t all that different.
Review: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players presents Ronald Bruce Smith
Cabrera, a natural teacher, was clearly in his element as he introduced each movement, conducting snippets to highlight passages, and deconstructing the work for the audience, before conducting it in its totality.
Ensemble Parallèle wows the opera community
I had the good fortune to steal a few hours watching Cocteau’s movie before hand. While the costuming and actors look far different from this gem, they retain the feel of the film, as well as much of the verbatim script, itself. The ending – at least according to the synopsis – is very different.
Review: Ives Quartet
With a hint of Spanish tunes, interspersed with chromatic passages from Freier and Mussumeli, I never knew that a string quartet could possibly sound this way.
