The Curlew River runs fast among the fens, dividing East from West, person from person. So goes the description in…
Suzanne Weiss
Suzanne Weiss has been writing about the arts for the past 35 years. Formerly Arts Editor for the papers of Pioneer Press in the northern Chicago suburban area, her work also has appeared in Stagebill and Crain’s Chicago Business, among other publications. Since moving to the Bay Area she has reviewed theater, opera, dance and the occasional film for the San Mateo Times, “J” and is a regular contributor to CultureVulture. She is the author of “Glencoe, Queen of Suburbs.”
Suzanne passed away in 2016.
Instead of a fairy godmother, we have a wise old tutor and the glass slippers are now a pair of…
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! No, I’m not swearing, that’s who this play is about. Multi-award-winning Irish author Colm Tóibín’s “Testament”…
Take one good-looking couple, she a fantastic soprano and he a very good tenor, add a not-very-threatening villain, a heavy-handed…
Who says you can’t teach an old bird new tricks? Certainly not choreographer Graeme Murphy, who has taken the venerable…
What better way to celebrate the birthday of Giuseppe Verdi than with his famous costume party? And so it was…
To say something is “old hat” is to say that it is passé, out of style, yesterday’s news. And, indeed,…
A pussycat she’s not, in spite of the name. (And who knows what her real name is?) No, she can…
“Ain’t it a pretty night,” sings the soprano and, whenever “Susannah” is in town, the night is more than pretty….
Bel canto means “beautiful singing” and that’s what you get in San Francisco Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “Norma.” With…
“To sleep, perchance to dream…” The Bard of Avon sure loved the scenarios and fantasies that visit mankind once the…
Once upon a time there was a Greek sculptor who, so legend has it, created a statue so beautiful that…
Earlier this year a film called “Twelve Years a Slave” walked away with the Best Picture award at both the…
As a stunning curtain, decorated with modernistic kimonos, rises on an equally striking set, all light and platforms in primary…