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.
No Waiting Period Required: Brian Copeland at the Marsh
Suicide is never too far from anyone’s mind in Silicon Valley, especially here in Palo Alto where most of us are either nursing scar tissue or harboring a worrisome suspicion that we’ve created a coal mine for so many canaries.
Going home: ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ (Review)
A.C.T.'s season opener is one of the top 5 plays of 2015.
Taking you higher with ‘Mud Blue Sky’
Beth is the take-charge one: your mother – or maybe you – keeping eyelids popped open while trying not to advertise she’s been doing it on autopilot for a mighty long time.
The Country House: Donald Margulies’ new play at TheatreWorks (Review)
Anna may not look or sound anything like the Dowager Lady Grantham, but both are animated by the same indomitable self-respect.
The stage is almost set… at the new Pear Theatre
Above: Mountain View Mayor John Mcallister and Pear Theatre Artistic Director and Founder Diane Tasca prepare to cut the ribbon to the Pear’s new space at an event on Saturday, August 15, 2015. (Photo courtesy Carla Befera & Co.)
The blue oxford cloth shirt and brown cap weren’t quite official...
The Revolution Will Not be Digitized: Dan Hoyle at the Marsh
He’s critically attuned to how this steady diet of digital distraction diminishes our ability to form real connections and real community.
A Funny Thing Happened… at Foothill’s Smithwick
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum teaches all the elements that make for a great student farce: split second timing, physicality for sight gags and pratfalls, boundless energy paired against restraint, bouncy score, madcap choreography – the list goes on. However, whether you want to...
Policy pivots along ‘School-to-Prison-Pipeline’ with Anna Deavere Smith (Review)
She’s so powerful that she can use words like “impactful,” and you want to believe them.
Living Up to its Reputation: ‘Company’ at San Francisco Playhouse
Company remains so vital you have to pay attention to this microscope on everyone’s marriage, complete with ironies, compromises, and connections for which we all keep looking
