Original Broadway Cast: ‘IF/THEN’ at the Orpheum, San Francisco (Review)
Superficially, the execution appears unremarkable until it hits that your brain has been stolen by the shape of the entire dance, moving on the stage…
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.
Philharmonia Baroque and Richard Egarr: Lithe, light, friendly
This material highlights how different the historically informed performances of PBO (and the Academy of Ancient Music) are from anything most of us grew up…
Not Just a Morality Tale: Date Night at Pet Emergency
Rothman's considerable strengths, as a writer and performer, make this show worth taking in.
Premiering Noel Coward: ‘Sail Away’
Even if you don’t like her acting style, you’ll marvel at her command, her timing, her eyebrows. Watching her makes me start connecting lines back…
Shaping sound, shaping dance
This touring show has even more of the flash and glitz of the reality TV, which audience seemed to revel in, breaking into spontaneous applause…
Making Piracy Pay: The Hypocrites’ Pirates of Penzance
This take on the Gilbert and Sullivan classic tweaks a more than a few bits, with Frederic confused with Frodo, and pilots with pirate.
The Berkeley Submarine
Within seconds of lights going down, kids in the audience began to burst into irrepressible giggles at the sight of Slater Penney and Jaron Hollander,…
Let X Be the Universe: ‘Proof’ at TheatreWorks
Peter Callender travels the biggest distance as Robert, moving between living and dead, from compulsively filling notebooks with meaningless drivel to one who arrives from…
At The Stage: ‘RFK’ reminds us of a different kind of politics
Arrow’s got RFK’s pointed elbow jabs, along with hair that falls like Kennedy hair when pushed aside, and a Boston accent that takes me back…
Wildly Exuberant & Coyly Petulant at Smuin Ballet’s season opener
This seductive dreaminess even penetrates the second movement, but dreamy woodwinds yield to more assertive sounds, and the dancers (starting with a group of four…