Wednesday, 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 08:32PMTuesday, May 22, 2007
With all this talk about the Summer of Love – it was 40 years ago, in case you hadn’t noticed – I’ve been thinking about the musical Hair, which, not so coincidentally, is also celeb…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:08PMFriday, May 18, 2007
It sure was good to have Annette Bening back onstage at what used to be called the Geary Theater. Back in the early ’80s, when Bening was a grad student at the American Conservatory Theate…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:00PMThursday, May 17, 2007
About four years ago, I was having a chat with Berkeley monologist Josh Kornbluth. He was touting his latest show, Love & Taxes, but something he said then occurred to me before I talked…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:45PMOpened May 16 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Roda Theatre Berkeley Rep gives Dickens a dark Twist Three stars Grim ‘n’ grand We’re told early on in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:40PMWednesday, May 16, 2007
Who knew we were all so hungry for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons? Last December, when the national tour of the Broadway hit Jersey Boys opened at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, audie…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:03PMWe’re not getting sleepy, but we are getting Drowsy. The hit Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone (above), winner of five 2006 Tony Awards, is part of SHN’s new Best of Broadway season,…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:41PMTuesday, May 15, 2007
Tony nominations were announced this morning, and to my great delight, Spring Awakening nabbed a leading 11 nominations, including two acting noms for Jonathan Groff (best actor in a musical…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:41PMSunday, May 13, 2007
Can’t make it to Broadway to see Legally Blonde, The Musical? Well, make you way over to Broadwayworld.com for some EXTENSIVE footage from the show. You’ll feel satisfied. Click here. Wh…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:14PMThursday, May 10, 2007
The cast and composers of Spring Awakening. Bring on the awards. Photo from Broadway.com The official 2006-2007 Broadway season opened with Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway last August (th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:53PMWednesday, May 9, 2007
Get all that merry singing and dancing out of your head. A new theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist arrives at Berkeley Repertory Theatre this weekend, and it’s nothing…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:00PMMonday, May 7, 2007
Opened May 5, 2007 at SF Playhouse SF Playhouse’s sharp `Shooter’ targets violence, video games three [1/2] stars Current, vital We love tidiness in our news. The worse the news, it seem…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:20PMSan Francisco’s Magic Theatre, currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, is looking ahead to next season. The lineup, announced last week, kicks off in September with a world premiere: E…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:00PMFriday, May 4, 2007
Playwright Aaron Loeb is what you might call multitasking. He has a 16-month-old daughter, Talitha Jane; he just moved from Oakland to Berkeley; he’s readying his play First Person Shooter…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:33PMThursday, May 3, 2007
Blog reader Jersey Boys Front Row-er writes with evidence of some excellent detective work being done by Jersey Boys fans to find out who will be taking over in the San Francisco production.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:16PMOpened May 2, 2007 at American Conservatory Theater ACT ruffles feathers with controversial Blackbird drama two [1/2] stars Provocative David Harrower’s Blackbird, now at San Francisco’s…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:01PMWednesday, May 2, 2007
A gardener works hard and waits patiently for change. From seemingly nothing — a seed, some dirt and water — comes something wonderful in the form a living, breathing thing. Lee Bressett…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:07PMWhen I’m not at the theater, chances are I’m at a concert. This week I finally got to see one of my favorite artists live at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Bird watching at the Fillmore …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:00PMTuesday, May 1, 2007
As the San Francisco cast of Jersey Boys heads down to Los Angeles to finally begin the actual touring part of this national touring company, the Curran Theatre welcomes a whole new cast (mo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:00PMMonday, April 30, 2007
Steven Culp, whom you might recognize from his stint as the late Rex Van De Kamp, husband of Martha Stewart-wannabe Brie Van De Kamp on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” doesn’t want me …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:38PMSaturday, April 28, 2007
Impact ratchets up vice, vitality in Measure for Measure three stars Well measured By all counts, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a comedy — if you measure comedy not in the Will Fe…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:47PMFriday, April 27, 2007
Lynda Carter and I are bonding over the phone. I tell her that for my 11th birthday, my parents took me to the Sahara Reno (no longer there) for a big show. The maitre d’, knowing it was a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:46PMIn New York recently, I had an amazing experience with Ricky Ian Gordon, an extraordinary composer who has written for the theater (My Life with Albertine, Dream True) and for the opera (his…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:01AMThursday, April 26, 2007
In my final discussion of the shows I saw in New York last week, I’d like to simply honor the extraordinary work of Bob Crowley, who until recently, was best known as the go-to guy for min…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:27PMI know Rufus Wainwright is not a theater person…yet. One day he’ll actually write the musical version of Tales of the City, which has been buzzed about for years, and then he’ll justif…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:18PMWednesday, April 25, 2007
Every year around this time, the casts of Broadway shows make a spiel at the end of every performance and solicit audience donations for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which then makes d…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:44PMMore from last week’s Broadway binge. Couldn’t resist returning to see Legally Blonde at the Palace Theatre to see how the show had evolved since its January out-of-town tryout at the Go…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:55PMTuesday, April 24, 2007
Boy was it hard to leave New York City. The day after I arrived, the city was hit by a nor’easter (a nice name for a Category 2 hurricane-type storm) that dumped, so I’m told 5 ½ inches…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:34PMSaturday, April 14, 2007
Hey, Theater Dogs! I’m off to New York to finally see Spring Awakening (among other shows). Will write all about it when I return next week.
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:12AMIrwin, Turner find laughs, depth in howling Woolf three stars [1/2] stars Painfully funny Why is it we’re still interested in George and Martha, the bellicose spouses in Edward Albee’s 1…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:10AMFriday, April 13, 2007
Opened Thursday, April 12, 2007, Aurora Theatre Company Aurora exposes laughs, drama in Public Places Two [1/2] stars Sturdy laughs Building a play about architecture is a tricky business. C…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:43PM 
