"The genius that is Laurie Anderson," writes San Francisco Chronicle Theater Critic Robert Hurwitt, "returned to Cal Performances on Friday with a new enchantment in another of her many performance guises. Singing, reciting, teasing, exciting and playing electric violin with a dynamic trio, Anderson brought the large audience at Zellerbach Hall to its feet for a prolonged and well-deserved standing ovation."

The Chronicle review of the first of Laurie's two performances at the Zellerbach in Berkeley this weekend describes Homeland, her latest performance piece, as "a meditation in song, punctuated by wryly satiric monologues and pulsating dark, at times symphonic instrumental exchanges ... It's also Anderson working in top form, engaging, witty, thought provoking and musically inspired."

Hurwitt says the work "contains new songs that rank with Anderson's best work," including one "sinuously rocking and insidiously smart song about the kinds of anti-scientific, military and social 'expertise' that has been running the country ... [that] recalls the excitement Anderson generated with 'O Superman.'"

Read the review at sfgate.com.