Lily Janiak Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Lily Janiak is a theater critic. Theater Critic @SFChronicle @sfc_datebook. 🚲. Copy editor stan account. 👋: ljaniak@sfchronicle.com she/her.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane AustenLily JaniakWhat, an occasion to reread, think about and write about Jane Austen?! Don't mind if I do. Thanks, @TheatreWorksSV! I review "Sense and Sensibility": https://t.co/GTYY5xnOpx
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane AustenLily JaniakWhat, an occasion to reread, think about and write about Jane Austen?! Don't mind if I do. Thanks, @TheatreWorksSV! I review "Sense and Sensibility": https://t.co/GTYY5xnOpx
Paperback, 2018
$8.99Member price:$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hadestown
Anaïs MitchellLily JaniakStill can't believe my job lets me talk to amazing artists and ask them whatever questions I want. I interview Anaïs Mitchell about "Hadestown," which begins performances this week at @broadwaysf: https://t.co/VvC73pgRX9
Paperback, 2021
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Band's Visit
Itamar MosesLily Janiak"It’s the kind of piece that seems to speak to whatever the extremity is in the moment." Berkeley native Itamar Moses, whose "The Band's Visit" begins @broadwaysf performances tonight: https://t.co/5hHFueMQNp
Paperback, 2018
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical
Sarah RuhlLily JaniakColumn: I have always loved Sarah Ruhl's plays, but it's somehow a love from a distance. I feel much closer now, though, thanks to Ruhl's memoir "Smile" and to Theatre Lunatico, whose production of "Melancholy Play" runs thru June 19. https://t.co/rKYpaixCMz
Paperback, 2017
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
Peter BrookLily JaniakOn Peter Brook, “The Empty Space” and his enduring challenge to theater critics. RIP. An appreciation: https://t.co/ahMWoMxyVu
Paperback, 1995
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gem of the Ocean
August WilsonLily JaniakLOVE seeing @davidjchavez write for The Chronicle. What a pleasure to read his vivid feature on Tim Bond directing "Gem of the Ocean" at @TheatreWorksSV. What fantastic quotes from August Wilson's widow, Constanza Romero! https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/august-wilsons-gem-of-the-ocean-has-extra-depth-for-tim-bond-now-bond-presents-it-at-theatreworks
Paperback, 2006
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times
Robert GreenfieldLily JaniakIn the new Shepard biography “True West,” which takes its name from one of Shepard’s greatest plays, Carmel author Robert Greenfield, who’s also a playwright and a longtime music writer and editor, is at his best when he mythologizes only to mythbust.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Smile
Sarah RuhlLily JaniakColumn: I have always loved Sarah Ruhl's plays, but it's somehow a love from a distance. I feel much closer now, though, thanks to Ruhl's memoir "Smile" and to Theatre Lunatico, whose production of "Melancholy Play" runs thru June 19. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/learning-to-grieve-the-last-two-years-with-sarah-ruhls-and-theatre-lunaticos-help
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Smile: The Story of a Face
Sarah RuhlLily JaniakColumn: I have always loved Sarah Ruhl's plays, but it's somehow a love from a distance. I feel much closer now, though, thanks to Ruhl's memoir "Smile" and to Theatre Lunatico, whose production of "Melancholy Play" runs thru June 19. https://t.co/rKYpaixCMz
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