Wednesday, June 27, 2007
REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS Calling Las Vegas the Broadway of the West is really pushing it. Sure, Mama Mia! has blossomed into a hit, and it looks like Spamalot and The Phantom of the Opera have …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:20PMIt ahd to happen: the battle of the Dreamgirls JHs — Jennifer Holliday (Broadway’s original Effie) and Jennifer Hudson (Hollywood’s Oscar-winning Effie). It’s from the BET Awards ear…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:41PMTuesday, June 26, 2007
REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS The celebrated Montreal-based circus re-inventors Cirque du Soleil currently has five shows in Vegas (with two more on the way — one, an Elvis-themed show, the other …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:26PMAh, Las Vegas, where even the excess is excessively excessive. Sound redundant and overblown? Welcome to Sin City, baby. I spent last week in the overheated climes of Southern Nevada for the…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:13PMMonday, June 25, 2007
The big yellow-and-blue-striped tent — the Grand Chapiteau — is heading back to the Bay Area. Cirque du Soleil’s latest touring show, KOOZA, will have its U.S. premiere Nov. 16 in the …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:44PMFriday, June 15, 2007
Theater Dogs is off to the desert. I’ll be in Las Vegas for a week with the American Theatre Critics Association conference seeing all the shows (Spamalot, Phantom and all the Cirque du So…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:57PMThursday, June 14, 2007
ACT’s Imaginary Invalid suffers comedy ills Two stars Broken funny bone There was abundant laughter in the house when American Conservatory Theater opened a new adaptation of Moliere’s T…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:08PMThe musical gods are smiling on the Bay Area. It was announced today that the national tour of Spring Awakening — winner of eight 2007 Tony Awards including best musical — will indeed la…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:01AMWednesday, June 13, 2007
Opened June 9, Traveling Jewish Theater Sounds dazzle in Crowded Fire’s odd, fascinating Anna Bella Eema three stars Weirdly wonderful Crowded Fire Theatre Company, now in its 10th year of…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:55PMThey’ve shaken up All Shook Up, the new juke-box musical that spins a new story out of old Elvis Presley songs. The show began performances on Broadway in March 2005 and closed seven month…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:12PMTuesday, June 12, 2007
Now that the Tony Awards are behind us, you don’t need to go through withdrawal. You can order your very own Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS official Tony T-shirt, which features the sig…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:59PMMonday, June 11, 2007
A salute to the big musical winners from Sunday’s Tony Awards: (from left) Frank Langella, best actor for Frost/Nixon, Christine Ebersole, best actress for Grey Gardens, Julie White, best …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:39PM(all photos Associated Press) For Spring Awakening fans such as myself, Sunday night’s Tony Awards was one of the most exciting in years. Granted, the “medley” of songs performed by th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:26PM(all photos Associated Press) “Musical theater rocks,” so said Duncan Sheik with a sly smile and a twinkle in his award-drunk eyes during Sunday’s Tony Awards. Here’s Sheik on the re…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:43PMSunday, June 10, 2007
First, to clarify a few things: in another era, Marin Mazzie would be the biggest kind of Broadway star (think Ethel Merman or Carol Channing) and composers would be falling all over themsel…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:31PMSaturday, June 9, 2007
Stunts, food highlight ZinZanni’s new Royale Invitation three stars Still fun, still chaotic The first time I saw Teatro ZinZanni’s Love, Chaos and Dinner, I left with a pounding headach…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:31PMFriday, June 8, 2007
Looking back, Mike Daisey calls “the incident” “chilling and dorky.” The monologist, who has brought his 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com and The Ugly American to Berkeley Reper…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:18PMThursday, June 7, 2007
Earlier this week I wrote a feature story about Disney Theatrical Productions president (and San Mateo native) Thomas Schumacher. You can read the story here. For the blog, I wanted to take …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:53PMTuesday, June 5, 2007
Opened June 4, 2007, Intersection for the Arts Hagedorn finds dramatic heat in `Desert’ comedy three stars Fun, unfocused Fe looks into the desert surrounding her multi-million-dollar home…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:56PMSteven Sater is heading into Sunday’s Tony Awards ceremony with two nominations of his own and 11 total for his show, Spring Awakening. Sater is nominated as lyricist, along with composer …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:04PMMonday, June 4, 2007
As we head toward the Tony Awards telecast on Sunday, June 10, I will be offering interviews with folks from my favorite musical of the season, Spring Awakening. Up first, composer Duncan Sh…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:15PMSunday, June 3, 2007
opened June 2, 2007, Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda Villainy rules in Cal Shakes’ masterful Richard III three [1/2] stars A Richard to remember This smart, funny man can’t be all bad, can he…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:30PMApplause, applause to Jeremy Aufderheide, the Web master behind BlueGobo.com, an extraordinary Web site featuring an enormous collection of Broadway-musical video clips stretching back to th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:23PMFriday, June 1, 2007
King Richard III is more than mean. He woos a grieving widow whose husband he has killed himself. He orders the murders of two child princes in the Tower of London. He kills his wife so he c…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:21PMBaseball drama aims for more than just naked truth three stars Play ball! It’s a shame that Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out is known as “the naked baseball play.” Sure, there’s mor…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:15AMWednesday, May 30, 2007
I have to admit that last week’s “contretemps,” as Barbara Walters put it, between Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck left me a little sad. I have TiVo’d “The View” prett…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:44PMTuesday, May 29, 2007
OK, people, time to start planning those Tony Award viewing parties for Sunday, June 10 on CBS. We’ve got to get those dismal ratings up, so if you’re having people over, make sure they�…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:34PMSunday, May 27, 2007
Happy Memorial Day weekend, Dogs. A family member in Reno tipped me off to the following column by Reno-Gazette Journal columnist Siobhan McAndrew that ran in today’s paper. The gist of it…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:38PMThursday, May 24, 2007
The crowd in the funeral parlor was practically giddy. One man, in a mourning veil, no less, let loose with the fake tears and proclaimed between phony sobs: “Kiki! You were a flaming mega…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:30PMWednesday, May 23, 2007
We can claim Adam Bock as a San Francisco playwright, but that’s really not quite accurate. The talented writer basically used the Bay Area as a way station between his native Canada and t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:32PM 
