Thursday, November 1, 2007
Elizabeth McKoy(above left) and Kimberly Dooley (above right) are creating a children’s theater, and they know what they’re doing. In addition to theatrical qualifications, the two women…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:02PMWednesday, October 31, 2007
ACT’s `Rainmaker’ shakes, rattles and pours Two ½ stars Dusty and dreamy You’ve got to hand it to American Conservatory Theater. When reviving a musty old relic like N. Richard Nash�…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:18PMTuesday, October 30, 2007
Last night I attended a screening of Disney’s big holiday movie, Enchanted, and I have to say, I was pretty charmed by the notion of a classic Disney animated feature turned on its head an…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:05PMFrequent Theater Dogs commenter Tracy recommends the somewhat controversial CBS series “Kid Nation.” You’d think, as an elementary school teacher, her days would be full enough of kid …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:00PMMonday, October 29, 2007
Hey, Theater Dogs — it’s time to check in with the hip, the hot, the happening in the world of theater and beoynd. I figure that a common-denominator blog such as this one, where readers…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:31PMTuesday, October 23, 2007
Campo Santo, Denis Johnson go a little crazy in Iowa Three and 1/2 stars Comic, dramatic depth charge There’s a lot of wonderful weirdness in Denis Johnson’s Des Moines. The play had its…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:21PMFriday, October 19, 2007
Admit it. You’re wondering what it was like. Cheesy? Silly? Stultifying? Genius? Yes, yes, not so much and no. We’re talking, of course, about Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tou…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:28PMThursday, October 18, 2007
Opened Oct. 17, 2007 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Thrust Stage Galati translates Murakami stories to the stage Three stars Stirred, not shaken We’re lucky to live in the Bay Area for …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:01AMWednesday, October 17, 2007
Campo Santo, the small theater company with major literary impact, is not doing a traditional season. Sean San Jose, Campo Santo founder, and Deborah Cullinan, executive director of Intersec…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:43PMTuesday, October 16, 2007
Claymates rejoice while the rest of us ponder why Clay Aiken ever stuck his fingers in Kelly Ripa’s mouth (OK, he covered her mouth with his hand, but like she said at the time, she didn�…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:24PMMonday, October 15, 2007
On Saturday at San Francisco’s El Rio bar, where a giant cut-out of Carmen Miranda looks down on the back courtyard, Crowded Fire Theatre Company held a festive fundraising chili cook-off.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:37AMSaturday, October 13, 2007
Opened Oct. 12, 2007 at the Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco Purple musical finally finds its voice Three stars: Lumpy, ultimately beautiful bundle Those first few moments of the overture are …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:06PMFriday, October 12, 2007
One of the most interesting documentaries of the year had nothing to do with health care or Iraq. ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway sort of slipped in and out of theaters without a whole lo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:37PMThere’s a definite literary bent — no ice rinks or Disney TV musicals here — to director Frank Galati’s work. Two of his best-known stage adaptations began life as books: The Grapes …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:48PMThursday, October 11, 2007
Hey, Theater Dogs. I know the following isn’t theater related, but I just wanted to share my experience with an extraordinary performer… Sweet dreams are made of Annie Lennox. Quirky, in…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:20AMWednesday, October 10, 2007
So many things are good on ice _ lemonade, oysters, the Sharks _ but High School Musical on Ice? Really? Ice Capades and Holiday on Ice, sure. But a made-for-TV movie about chipper high scho…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:16PMMonday, October 8, 2007
Upcoming theater fundraisers are going to let you fire it up and throw ’em down. First up, this Saturday (Oct. 13), Crowded Fire Theatre Company is hosting a Chili Cookoff with foolsFury, …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:11PMSunday, October 7, 2007
MTV.com has a bunch of 30-second clips from the upcoming broadcast of Broadway’s Legally Blonde, The Musical. You can see “Omigod You Guys,” “What You Want” (complete with plug for…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:11AMFriday, October 5, 2007
After five seasons at the helm of San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, artistic director Chris Smith will leave his position at the end of the 2007-2008 season. A search commtittee will begin a …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:05PMIn a way, Willy Loman led Aaron Davidman to Golda Meir. Davidman, the artistic director of San Francisco’s Traveling Jewish Theatre, had directed a production of Death of a Salesman that, …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:01AMThursday, October 4, 2007
Take a first look at what Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is going to look like. The trailer only gives a slight hint that this is even a musical, but it’s a …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:08PMA friend sent along a link to a hilarious (and useful) “kit” for creating and hurling Shakespearean insults. Check it out here. The creators are to be congratulated for fine scholarship …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:50PMWhen she was born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland, she was called LaToya London, the name the country got to know when she emerged as someone to watch on Season 3 of “American Idol.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:59PMTuesday, October 2, 2007
I need to get the embarrassing details out there here at the start: The first versions of Beatles songs I ever grew to love were – gulp – on the double-album soundtrack of Sgt. Pepper’…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:43PMMonday, October 1, 2007
Yes, it’s true, Jersey Boys only just ended its nine-month run at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre on Sunday, but today it’s official: the show will be back for a “special holiday enga…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:01AMFriday, September 28, 2007
As Frankie Valli once sang, “Bye-bye, baby, baby bye-bye.” It’s closing weekend for Jersey Boys, the show the Bay Area has come to love in a big way. I say that with confidence having …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:09PMThursday, September 27, 2007
Dean Martin can be heard crooning in the background as Christine Andreas scurries around her kitchen, the phone tucked between shoulder and ear, as she conducts an interview and prepares for…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:38PMWednesday, September 26, 2007
Apparently the leap from the Broadway stage to television takes a little longer than previously thought. If you planned this weekend around multiple screenings of Legally Blonde, the Musical…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:31PMMonday, September 24, 2007
Pranks are all well and good…as long as you’re not the vicitm. Pgranstgroup seems to be a group that pulls elaborate pranks and, in true 21st-century fashion, posts them online for all t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:57PMSunday, September 23, 2007
Opened Sept. 22, 2007 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center Broadway by the Bay hits musical target with Annie Get Your Gun There’s simply no business like Irving Berlin’s show busines…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:26PMOpened Sept. 22, 2007 at the Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Cal Shakes ends season with royally pleasing Lear three stars Moving, power…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:30PM 
