The Eastside View

With profound thanks to Bhishma Xenotechnites ( Finished for now, and constructive comments welcomed below —) ( Well, then, here's the ...

• Nina Raine: Tribes Beth: Anita Carey Billy: James Caverly Daniel: Dan Clegg Sylvia: Christine Albright Ruth: Elizabeth Morton Christopher...

P ERSONAL NOTE first: I named this blog in a hurry, as one often names things, but with little or no subsequent regret. I live on Eastside ...

I MAKE NO APOLOGIES for spending time on Facebook, where I "follow" a great many "friends" (and, of course, family) sca...

Installation photograph, Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, through July 27, 2014, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Cald...

•Molière: Tartuffe , translated by Richard Wilbur. In repertory through May 24 •Shakespeare: Macbeth. In repertory through May 11 •William I...

Tom Stoppard: The Coast of Utopia. I: Voyage: through May 1. II: Shipwreck: through April 19. III: Salvage: through May 4. Shotgun Player...

Eastside Road, March 27, 2014— F OR YEARS WE'VE SUBSCRIBED to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival , the impressive repertory company in Ash...

Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) John Cage (1912-1992) Lou Harrison (1917-2003) I   MET L OU H ARRISON in the early 1960s, probably at the Cabr...

I HAVEN'T BEEN GIVING enough attention lately to blogs, either to my own or to those of others. I find online comments and blogs, car...

Shin-ichi Matsushita: Subject 17 T HE RECENT CONCERTS by Other Minds brought an earlier festival to mind: the Third Annual Festival of the ...

W HAT HAS TRADITIONALLY set historians apart from all other commentators on the past is their conviction that the past has both the ability...

Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi translated from the French by Rob Melrose Directed by Yury Urnov The Cutting Ball Theater 277 Taylor Street, San Fran...

W HAT TO SAY ABOUT Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem ,  seen last night at San Francisco Playhouse? We sat center, first row mezzanine, t...