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

• Actors pull off the best trick of all in The Floating Light Bulb: giving vibrancy to a so-so script

  published April 29, 2009

  Woody Allen's 1981 play, The Floating Light Bulb, begins and ends with a magic trick. "The Floating Light Bulb" was the signature piece... More >>

• Despite the great source material, War Music bombs

  published April 22, 2009

  There's nothing in life quite like living in the moment. Being caught up in the immediacy of an experience and feeling fully engrossed in it to... More >>

• We Salute You

  published April 15, 2009

  If you’ve ever wondered what Poulenc’s organ concerto might sound like parsed through metal guitar riffs, spiraling synths, and hard... More >>

• The Story

  published April 8, 2009

  The news industry has been taking a hammering on all sides of late. With the San Francisco Chronicle's owner threatening to sell or fold... More >>

• Charlie Varon's visionary Rabbi Sam leaves audiences rapt

  published March 25, 2009

  Several years ago, through a strange sequence of events, Charlie Varon found himself delivering the Yom Kippur sermon at his synagogue in San... More >>

• Theatrical Makeover

  published March 11, 2009

  When my friend Jessica Heidt took over as artistic director of the Climate Theater in September 2007, the corner of Folsom and Ninth streets... More >>

• Women on the Verge

  published February 25, 2009

  The term "female hysteria" isn't fashionable these days. Bringing to mind unkempt women flailing about drenched on windswept moors or gibbering... More >>

• Fiiiiiigaro!

  published February 25, 2009

  The Marriage of Figaro is Mozart’s most beloved opera, surpassing even Don Giovanni on the popularity charts these days: By the... More >>

• Breast cancer sucks, and so does Tough Titty

  published February 11, 2009

  What I am about to do may well banish me to hell: I am about to disparage an autobiographical play about terminal breast cancer, written by a... More >>

• A Whole Lotta Love

  published February 4, 2009

  From his operas like Einstein on the Beach and Appomattox to his film scores for Koyaanisqatsi and Notes on a Scandal,... More >>

• The Magic of Intimacy

  published January 28, 2009

  Christian Cagigal achieves big things on a small scale. Compactly built, neatly groomed, and bookishly bespectacled, the San Francisco–based... More >>

• Three Little Pigs

  published January 21, 2009

  Everyone loves a good rags-to-riches story. The idea of a downtrodden person overcoming the odds to rise to the heights of success has been a... More >>

• Also Playing

  published January 14, 2009

  Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party. The core conceit of Aaron Loeb's ambitious, hilarious, and dramaturgically hairy comedy is... More >>

• Trenchcoat in Common explores loss of privacy in a Web-connected world

  published January 14, 2009

  There comes a time in every blogger's life when she discovers an alarming truth: People actually read her words. I started blogging partly out... More >>

• Also Playing

  published January 7, 2009

  Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party. The core conceit of Aaron Loeb's ambitious, hilarious, and dramaturgically hairy comedy is... More >>

• Mark Jackson's Shakespearean Psycho at the Ashby Stage.

  published January 7, 2009

  It's hard to think of two manifestations of the Western cultural imagination less alike than Macbeth and Project Runway. Yet the... More >>