Email Author Chloe Veltman

Awards

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published October 29, 2008

  "Taking It Personally"

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2009 Stories by Chloe Veltman

• Stateless: More vaudeville than hip-hop

  published November 25, 2009

  The Jewish love affair with hip-hop — a romance grounded in the art of the Beastie Boys, the High and Mighty, Lyor Cohen, MC Serch, DJ... More >>

• Mrs. Whitney, success when a playwright also directs

  published November 11, 2009

  I recently asked several local dramatists whether they thought playwrights should direct their own plays. The question arose following a... More >>

• "The Future Project": Sunday Will Come

  published October 28, 2009

  Over the course of the average lifetime, a person takes around 700 million breaths. It may be the case, as the axiom goes, that "life isn't... More >>

• Also Playing

  published October 21, 2009

  The Clean House. Hot young playwright Sarah Ruhl is on a roll. Still only in her mid-30s, she has won a MacArthur Genius Award;... More >>

• Also Playing

  published October 14, 2009

  South Pacific. There are so many wonderful songs in South Pacific that it's almost impossible to experience a revival of... More >>

• Philip Kan Gotanda's new play is hard to swallow

  published October 14, 2009

  Redrum Burger in Davis has built up quite a reputation since it opened in 1986. Locals identify the fast food joint by its humongous... More >>

• Also Playing

  published October 7, 2009

  South Pacific. There are so many wonderful songs in South Pacific that it's almost impossible to experience a revival of... More >>

• South Pacific

  published September 30, 2009

  There are so many wonderful songs in South Pacific that it's almost impossible to experience a revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar... More >>

• The Rosies of Richmond make riveting subject matter in This World in a Woman's Hands

  published September 30, 2009

  The image of a strapping white woman in a headscarf and overalls flexing her guns under the slogan "We Can Do It!" has become a cultural icon... More >>

• Overproduced Noel Coward adaptation Brief Encounter proves that sometimes less is more

  published September 23, 2009

  In the United States, hardly anyone takes the train anymore. Perhaps that's why rail travel seems so hopelessly romantic, conjuring up images... More >>

• This year's Fringe Festival preview was a total disaster

  published September 9, 2009

  I've always maintained that one of the best things about attending an unjuried Fringe Festival such as the one we have annually here in San... More >>

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  The Maestro

  published September 2, 2009

  Italy runs in San Francisco Opera's blood like vin santo down the throat of a tipsy padre. In 1923, it was an Italian, Gaetano Merola, who... More >>

• Five Classical Music and Opera Events to See This Fall

  published September 2, 2009

  Il Trovatore San Francisco Opera's new music director, Nicola Luisotti, makes his debut with an arresting new... More >>

• So what if August: Osage county won a Tony? It's still boring and bloated

  published August 26, 2009

  The young Thomas Mann learned a lesson about overindulgence when his father took him to a patisserie and told him he could stuff his face with... More >>

• Tim Hendrixson and Mary Knoll take a bite out of dinner theater in Theater You Can Eat

  published August 12, 2009

  In "The Toss Up," one of four lighthearted short plays about food being presented by the People's Theatre at the North Beach restaurant... More >>

• Rent Boy Ave: A Fairy's Tale confronts realities of urban life, '90s-style

  published July 29, 2009

  In recent years, any young musical-theater–impassioned composers or lyricists with aspirations for a Tony Award are obligated to try... More >>

• S.F. Playhouse's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest crams too many actors onto a small stage

  published July 22, 2009

  One of the most powerful aspects of live theater is its ability to make us sit through abnormal human behavior. When the recipe is right, the... More >>

• Don Reed's East 14th: True Tales of a Reluctant Player never totally finds its footing

  published July 8, 2009

  There's something to be said for living life by the principle of balance. As a Libran, I'm a strong proponent of equilibrium. Whenever things... More >>

• Familiarity with Monty Python's movies doesn't breed fondness for Spamalot

  published June 24, 2009

  If you grew up in the U.K. in the 1980s as I did, you grew up immersed in the world of Monty Python. At the age of 11, my friends and I would... More >>

• In Krapp's Last Tape, an old writer listens to his younger self

  published June 10, 2009

  Alongside the deadly crime of uttering the word "Macbeth" within earshot of any actor, director, or stage manager involved in staging the... More >>

• The Sound and the …

  published June 3, 2009

  The U.S. immigration department disappointed Bay Area performing arts lovers last year when visa issues forced San Francisco’s Brava Theater... More >>

• Amy Freed's comedy is far from spectacular in You, Nero

  published May 27, 2009

  Over the years I've been blogging about the arts, I've never been showered with more feedback than I received for a post I wrote about Susan... More >>

• That's Classic

  published May 20, 2009

  It’s tempting to think of Mercury Soul’s Mason Bates and Benjamin Schwartz as modern day, musical equivalents of Dr. Jekyll and... More >>

• Sean Owens explores the virtues of a drag queen's best friend in Stale Magnolias

  published May 13, 2009

  It's astonishing how much of our identity is wrapped up in our hair. Samson depended on his luscious locks for strength; when Delilah gave the... More >>

• Ionic Breeze

  published May 6, 2009

  From dancers performing on cable cars to sculptors building Burning Man shrines in city parks, Bay Area artists have long produced their work in... More >>