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.
‘Tree’ and the magic of theater at San Francisco Playhouse (Review)
The hit you get off of this one is almost as big as all our collective histories.
Just in Time for Super Bowl: X’s and O’s – A Football Love Story (Review)
Every lighting cue and every sound cue work to heighten this realism and transform the Berkeley Rep’s thrust stage. In lesser hands, this hyperrealism could feel mechanistic and antiseptically cold, but here, it’s so well done that it only pushes the story forward.
More than ebony and ivory: ‘2 Pianos 4 Hands’
This show is the perfect introduction for those who are curious what the often-grueling track to becoming another musician trying to not get stuck in contractor hell is really like.
Stuck in the ‘Haiku Tunnel’ of big firm culture
Kornbluth’s got the law firm culture down – a world in which even summer associates trump the admins and paralegals who really keep the place running. By playing all the roles himself, he keeps the story close to his chest, which makes it look far smarter than the movie.
Dancer, Prancers & Vixens storm the Nourse (Review)
The SFGMC never strays too far from that knowledge – which frees us to bring all of ourselves to the holiday.
‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ – a prequel with loft (Review)
If you balked at J.M. Barrie’s 1902 novel as a child, perhaps because families named Darling, dogs named Nana, and astral beings like Tinkerbell were a walk into the weird, this show is for you.
Brian Copeland’s ‘Jewelry Box’ at the Marsh (Review)
Saying that this one-man show is about Copeland’s efforts to get his mother a jewelry box would be like saying Moby Dick is about a whale.
Red Hot Patriot at Berkeley Rep (Review)
Kathleen Turner stars in 'Red Hot Patriot' at Berkeley Rep. "A perfect holiday show if you can't countenance anymore Nutcracker saccharine."
Holiday Spectacles: Cirque Dreams Holidaze (Review)
If Jingle Bell Rock rings your chimes, you’ll be as happy as an Elvis impersonator at Graceland.
Making miracles happen at City Lights with ‘Truce’
Wilder and Bracco’s play works so well because of the obvious lengths they’ve gone to make this historically accurate – to make it less of a fairy tale and more of a real-life miracle.
