Adorable Emma. Impossible Emma. Self-absorbed and totally “Clueless” (anybody remember Alicia Silverstone’s breakout movie?) Emma. Jane Austen’s irrepressible heroine, who…
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.
I don’t know why, but every time I hear the four mighty chords that begin Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” tears come…
Who are you? I mean, really? Are you who you want to be, pretend to be or who your mother…
Bring your grandma, bring your kids! The occasional touch of blue or potty humor either will delight them or go…
Sometimes you gotta take the good with the bad, and San Francisco Opera’s new production of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”…
You know the drill. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl loses slipper, boy finds girl and she gets, not…
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I must confess I have always preferred my horror on an intimate scale. That means a television set rather than…
Once upon a time there was a little girl with a great big imagination. Her parents were unloving and aloof…
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With enough swash and buckle and bathroom humor to satisfy any kid and lots of double entendre and witty word-play…
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Don’t ask me what it means. The inspired nonsense that comes out of the fertile brain of Robert Wilson is…
Some things never go out of style: basic black, young love, “La Bohème.” Reputed to be the most often performed…