The Jellicle Ball Returns: CATS opens in San Jose (review)
It’s been a couple of years since CATS was performed at the Center of Performing Arts, and Broadway San Jose more than delivered on this…
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.
Playing with Electric Razors: ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told’ (review)
With everything from reingoats to Anthony Weiner’s pull toy and a buzzing Norelco razor speeding dementedly across the tiny thrust stage, Kevin Blackton, Martin Rohas…
Touching Benjamin Franklin – San Francisco Symphony’s ‘The Messiah’
One fascinating bit of Messiah trivia is that Benjamin Franklin attended a “Messiah’’ performance in Dublin in 1759.
Review: ‘Bring It On: The Musical’ opens at the Orpheum
However, just as porn flicks persist in having plots, Bring in On labors under its own tortured burden. In both instances, plot is hardly the…
Not always perfect: ‘The Secret Garden’ at TheatreWorks
The strength of the production came from Rachel Sue, who played Mary Lennox. Angry, rude and obstinate, she embodies both the Victorian idea of a…
Rattling Chains: A Christmas Carol opens in San Jose
Part of the reason it plays so strongly to our sense of nostalgia for a life never experienced is that Dickens was writing to revive…
Ives Quartet Salon: Mozart, Haydn and the 1780s
These salons offer the listener an ear up, as it were, on performances that might otherwise sound excellent, but take on a transcendental quality in…
Broadway by the Year wins converts
Christina Bianco’s channeling of everyone from Streisand to Judy Garland, Patti Lupone, Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, and Celine Dion to perform “Caberet” was spot on…
Order, balance, transformation and beauty: PBO does Italy
If your point of reference to recorder music is the more staid Renaissance music, Verbruggen’s performance will stand such notions on their head. She propelled…
Theater Review: ‘The Soldier’s Tale’ at Aurora, Berkeley
L. Peter Callender has such compelling physical presence that he could probably make folding the laundry mesmerizing. With a quality of motion comparable to Ben…