A New Kind of Tension: ‘American Idiot’ at the Orpheum
American Idiot is by far the most compelling performance I’ve ever seen at the Orpheum here in San Francisco.
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.
Getting off the road at TheatreWorks with GrooveLily
Putting your life to music doesn’t necessarily make your life art, especially when it turns on the clichéd ticking of a biological clock.
Review: Pogo Sketch Stylus helps improve precision
After a two-week trial, this thing grew on me. My cell phone’s calculator gets a heavy workout every day, and this provided a degree of…
Mary Poppins, the Guatemalan nanny, and me
Why do we feel the need to project such goodness upon some externalized other who brings order to our households and happiness to our children…
San Jose Rep’s ‘The Understudy’ a light comedy with charm
As he did when he played Destry in Wirehead, Marin creates a character that’s a bit of a nebbish, the perennial loser whose efforts are…
Kronos Quartet: New music at its best
As a performance piece, Flow comes into its own and positively shimmers, much like the edges of a Rothko painting. The long rests between the…
Revisiting the Tenderloin
“It’s so real.” she kept repeating, an echo taken up by others, as if being real made the violence preferable to other alternatives.
PBO closes season with a feast
Ever the coquette, she “sigh’d and look’d, sigh’d and looked, sigh'd and looked and sigh'd again.”
Park your cynicism at the door for ‘In the Heights’
Theatre that stays with you invariably has at least one actor with such compassion and understanding of his character that he completely inhabits it.
Protect Your iPad: 2 cases that make the grade
Both of these products brought me one step closer to reconsidering the wisdom of keeping my tools unprotected.