Elaine Elinson, Author at 48 hills

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‘Where would we be without the Isley Brothers?’

August 14, 2019

“Where would we have been without the Isley Brothers?” Paul McCartney asks, clutching the mike and turning to guitar player Ernie Isley. “We would...

Onstage

“What does it mean to be a good person?”

July 11, 2019

ONSTAGE Isn’t trampling other people exhausting work? The vein on your forehead bulges from the strain of being greedy. This is the question that Shen Te, a...

Onstage

Wilkommen to the ever-relevant ‘Cabaret’

July 6, 2019

ONSTAGE Probably most of us can remember the first time we saw Cabaret (at SF Playhouse through September 14). For many it would have been the...

Onstage

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Ten years after Oedipus El Rey premiered at the Magic Theatre, Luis Alfaro’s drama is being staged there as a legacy revival, again directed by...

Onstage

Review: Herd mentality writ large (and snorting) in ‘Rhinoceros’

June 11, 2019

ONSTAGE If you think it unlikely that an absurdist comedy about raging rhinoceroses in a small French town could resonate deeply with the concerns...

Onstage

Review: Tuskegee Airmen take flight again in ‘Black Eagles’

March 20, 2019

ONSTAGE Black Eagles (through March 31 at Marines' Memorial Theatre), now being staged by the African-American Shakespeare Company and directed by L. Peter Callender, illuminates...

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Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

March 7, 2019

ONSTAGE A young woman frantically shouts into a graffiti-scrawled pay phone in a shabby airline terminal. She clutches a green handbag and tries to keep...

Onstage

Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music

March 4, 2019

ONSTAGE For those unfamiliar with Fiorello LaGuardia, the friend-of-the-working class Republican who fought Tammany Hall to become the 99th Mayor of New York City, the...

Arts + Culture

Review: In ‘Seascape,’ a day at the beach—with giant lizards

February 6, 2019

ONSTAGE Sparkling white sands spilling over the stage. Tufts of spindly sea grass. The sound of waves breaking gently in the distance, accompanied by...

Onstage

Review: A marvelous Chinatown ride in ‘King of the Yees’

February 3, 2019

ONSTAGE In one intriguing scene in King of the Yees (at SF Playhouse through March 2), the Sichuan Face Changer (Jomar Tagatac) poses a...

Elaine Elinson

‘Where would we be without the Isley Brothers?’

“What does it mean to be a good person?”

Wilkommen to the ever-relevant ‘Cabaret’

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

Review: Herd mentality writ large (and snorting) in ‘Rhinoceros’

Review: Tuskegee Airmen take flight again in ‘Black Eagles’

Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music

Review: In ‘Seascape,’ a day at the beach—with giant lizards

Review: A marvelous Chinatown ride in ‘King of the Yees’

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