Wednesday, February 6, 2008
You’re forgiven if you didn’t know quite how amazing Margo Hall is. If you’re a regular Bay Area theatergoer, you already know that Hall is an extraordinary actor. Last year, for insta…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:46PMTuesday, February 5, 2008
Mountain View’s TheatreWorks announced its 39th season today. The season opens in June with Snapshots with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Enchanted), at right, and book by D…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:28PMMonday, February 4, 2008
Opened Feb. 3, 2008, Post Street Theatre, San Francisco Shepherd’s charms can’t enliven bleak Widow Two stars (Light, long) Cybill Shepherd is moonlighting these days in the thee-ah-tuh.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:19PMSunday, February 3, 2008
Opened Feb. 2, 2008 at SF Playhouse The Scene makes a scene at SF Playhouse Three stars Scene to be seen By all rights, opening night of SF Playhouse’s The Scene should have been a disaste…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:13PMFriday, February 1, 2008
Opened Jan. 31, 2008 at the Aurora Theatre Company Crowded orbit mars Son’s Satellites Two stars (Needs space and time) The really interesting thing about plays, movies or TV shows that at…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:50PMThursday, January 31, 2008
Ill wind, you’re blowing me no good. Actually, the winds are favorable. If you’ve ever heard the original London cast album of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down the W…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:59PMMark McKinney (above right) spent last Saturday night onstage at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Theatre with his fellow Kids in the Hall: Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:36PMTuesday, January 29, 2008
After a career of movies (The Sure Thing, Spaceballs) and TV (Melrose Place, One Tree Hill), Daphne Zuniga was ready to go back where it all started: to the theater. The Berkeley native was …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:49PMMonday, January 28, 2008
SHN/Best of Broadway has announced that a new Irish musical will make its U.S. debut in San Francisco this summer. Ha’penny Bridge is a love story set against, according to press materials…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:23PMTuesday, January 22, 2008
With that nasty kerfuffle involving the stagehands and the dark Broadway theaters well behind us, it’s time to take a look at what’s going on in New York, where the play is really the th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:37PMMonday, January 21, 2008
Tings certainly do happen when you’re Dan Hoyle. The young performer, both author and performer of Tings Dey Happen, is this year’s winner of the Will Glickman Playwright Award, which br…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:11PMSunday, January 20, 2008
Opened Jan. 19, 2007, Magic Theatre Knights, princesses, justice battle in Magic’s bold Territories three 1/2 stars (Riveting, re-imagined history) History is full of incredible, intellige…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:00PMFriday, January 18, 2008
Lucy Simon and I have something interesting in common. We both saw our first Broadway shows at the St. James Theatre. Hers was Carousel. Mine was The Secret Garden, which just happens to hav…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:26PMThursday, January 17, 2008
Opened Jan. 16 on Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Thrust Stage Hoch’s solo artistry takes `Over’ Three stars Brilliance and brio Let there be no question about Danny Hoch’s genius. To t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:49PMMonday, January 14, 2008
opened Jan. 13, 2007 at Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco Wacky `Dead Mother’ springs to vibrant life three 1/2 stars Shirley not to be missed Dead Mother, contrary to its title, is …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:50PMThursday, January 10, 2008
Opened Jan. 9, 2008, American Conservatory Theater Mamet plows into Hollywood brio with `Speed’ Three ½ stars Hot he-man hurly-burly David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow may be notorious for al…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:53PMWednesday, January 9, 2008
It’s been 10 years since Danny Hoch jolted the Bay Area theater scene with Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop, his dynamic solo show at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Since then, he has worked di…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:21PMMonday, January 7, 2008
American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff didn’t mince words when introducing playwright Tom Stoppard Saturday morning at a Koret Visiting Artist Series event. She call…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:52PMFriday, January 4, 2008
You knew Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Cats, right? Well, did you know he also wrote a dog? In the Lloyd Webber canon, only By Jeeves was more critically pummeled than Whistle Down the Wind, a c…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:01AMThursday, January 3, 2008
There are some theater treats heading our way in 2008. Here’s a mere sampling. The show I’m most excited about also seems the furthest away. The national tour of the Tony Award-winning m…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:16PMWednesday, January 2, 2008
I’ve already offered up my Top 10 list of 2007’s best Bay Area theater (see it here). That’s all well and good, but there was way too much good stuff in 2007 to contain in a polite num…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:15PMFriday, December 28, 2007
With the new year come changes. On New Year’s Eve, Bay Area cabaret veteran Wesla Whitfield wil ring in 2008 with fans and revelers at San Francisco’s Empire Plush Room. She’s in the m…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:51PMThursday, December 27, 2007
I can always tell whether a theater year has been good or not so good when I sit down to hammer out my Top 10 list. If I can summon five or more shows simply from memory, it’s a good … C…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:56PMWednesday, December 26, 2007
Michael Feinstein is one of the most in-demand crooners in the land. If people want sophistication, elegance and abundant love and knowledge of the Great American Songbook, they immediately …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:01AMFriday, December 21, 2007
Dramatic Shaker Chair unseats expectations three stars Stirring Marion loves her new chair. It’s a beautiful wood straight back with woven seats. It’s a copy of a Shaker chair, and thoug…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:33PMAsk most singers and they’ll tell you: New Year’s Eve is not their favorite night for a gig. Audience members are overexcited, demanding and, most often, drunk off their gourds. “If yo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:01AMThursday, December 20, 2007
For a third time, American Conservatory Theater is asking us to think and write like David Mamet. Hot @#*$in’ dog. In conjunction with its upcoming production of Mamet’s Hollywood-lambas…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:25PMWednesday, December 19, 2007
The movies have not been all that kind to Stephen Sondheim. His early Broadway hits, for which he supplied lyrics only, West Side Story and Gypsy, became classic studio musicals (with West S…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:16PMFriday, December 14, 2007
Who but Rufus Wainwright could be this audacious? The 34-year-old singer/songwriter, who has always done pretty much exactly what he pleased. He makes the kind of intelligent, beautiful (som…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:00AMThursday, December 13, 2007
Sure Adam Bock misses his friends in the Bay Area. But the Canadian playwright, who moved from San Francisco to New York about five years ago, really misses the food. “Food in San Francisc…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:08PMTuesday, December 11, 2007
When does a movie become theater? The easy answer is when it’s adapted a la Hairspray, The Lion King, The Producers and the like. But there have been rare instances when movies become thea…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:43PM 
