Monday, December 18, 2006
No question Jersey Boys is one of the most exciting Bay Area theatrical events of 2006. Let’s hear from a couple readers who have their own thoughts on Jersey Boys. Jan Brown of Livermore …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:45PMWednesday, December 13, 2006
Ted Neeley is not Jesus Christ, though you might be excused for thinking otherwise. Like Yul Brynner in The King and I or Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! Neeley has come to be associated wit…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:53PMMonday, December 11, 2006
Last night, the Curran Theatre in San Francisco was the center of the golden oldie universe. The Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys kicked off its national tour, but it doesn’t look li…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:00PMFriday, December 8, 2006
I saw an extraordinary production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Thursday night in Berkeley. Below is a WEB EXCLUSIVE review. If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, the show continues t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:26PMMonday, December 4, 2006
If you’re a regular Theater Dogs reader, you may already know that I’m obssessed with Disneyland and consider it to be a masterful work of theater — sets, costumes, lights, drama (and,…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:40PMThursday, November 30, 2006
Am I the only one alarmed to learn that today (Nov. 30) is the birthday of both Mandy Patinkin (Tony Award-winning, over-emoting singer, TV star actor) and Clay Aiken (American Idol and reco…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:00AMTuesday, November 28, 2006
Last week, in honor of Thanksgiving, the critics of ANG Newspapers gathered an assortment of the year’s turkeys. Being one who prefers positive over the negative, I offer my turkeys and pr…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:58PMMonday, November 27, 2006
Don’t you love it when a celebrated London/Broadway play gets filmed with the original director and original cast? OK, so that hardly ever happens, but it has happend with Alan Bennett’s…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:19PMTuesday, November 21, 2006
As I understand it, my responsibility as a blogger is that elusive thing called BUZZ. That said, let me buzz a little about Dreamgirls, which I saw last week after spending much of the year …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:25PMWednesday, November 15, 2006
OK, so my dreams of Amy Sedaris becoming a Broadway musical star in Legally Blonde have been dashed. But with the official announcement of the full cast, I can hardly be disappointed. In add…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:29PMListening to some of this year’s holiday CD offerings, I can heartily recommend two so far. “Cool Yule,” Bette Midler (Columbia)Divinity and Christmas are, of course, related, so it’…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:44PMTuesday, November 14, 2006
Read our music critic Jim Harrington’s excellent review of the Streisand concert here. At first, Barbra Streisand was the kooky kid with the voice. Then she was an Academy Award winner and…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:12AMFriday, November 10, 2006
While I’m at it, I thought I’d share with you this treat from the folks at YouTube.com and SimplyStreisand.com. It’s a live recording session of La Streisand singing “Make Our Garden…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:51PMWednesday, November 8, 2006
On Monday (Nov. 13) I will be one of thousands making the trek to San Jose’s HP Pavilion to see Barbra Streisand say farewell to live performance (again). I’m admitting it here, in publi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:46PMMonday, November 6, 2006
This weekend, the Castro Theatre in San Francisco opens a Tennessee Williams film festival sure to excite cats on hot tin roofs everywhere. The fest begins Sunday (Nov. 12) with Marlon Brand…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:25PMThursday, November 2, 2006
The great Cherry Jones is coming to the Bay Area at long last! The two-time Tony Award-winner makes her Bay Area performance debut at the Golden Gate Theatre when Best of Broadway hosts the …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:40PMWednesday, November 1, 2006
At last we get a Dreamgirls preview with some meat on its bones. We get to hear Eddie Murphy sing, and, most important of all, we get a teaser of Jennifer Hudson’s “And I Am Telling You.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:02PMTuesday, October 31, 2006
I’ve been reading Amy Sedaris’ I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, her hilarious guide to home entertaining, and that started me thinking. I adore Amy Sedaris (and I hear her re…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:50PMSunday, October 29, 2006
One of the most famous stage directions in theater history _ other than Shakespeare’s “Exit, pursued by a bear” _ is from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. At the end of the absurd…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:41PMWednesday, October 25, 2006
You know it’s a new world of technology when they start doing plays in podcast form. Trevor Allen’s Black Box Theatre Company is celebrating Halloween in a big way. On Monday night, whic…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:39PMSunday, October 22, 2006
Usually, the sleepy little berg of Santa Rosa belongs to Charlie Brown, the melon-headed lad created by Santa Rosa’s favorite son, Charles M. Schulz. Last Saturday night, Santa Rosa was in…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:25PMFriday, October 20, 2006
Here’s a sneak peek at my interview with Adam Pascal, who’s performing Oct. 27 and 28 at the Post Street Theatre in San Francisco (more info below). Like any good blog item, there are bo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:06PMThursday, October 19, 2006
From the “now we’ve heard everything” file. Apparently there’s a Gilligan’s Island musical, and it’s being done by the Actors Theatre Center in Santa Clara (through Nov. 4). The …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:51PMWednesday, October 18, 2006
Halloween seems the appropriate time to talk about Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a dark, grisly 1979 musical about murder victims bein…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:34PMThere’s always plenty of juicy theater to keep us occupied here in the Bay Area. But we can’t help casting an eye toward Broadway. It’s sort of like our favorite sports team is having …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:55PMMonday, October 16, 2006
Things I’m excited about at the moment: – The new Chorus Line cast recording (stay tuned for more on that one), which came out last week. – Two off-Broadway musicals making their way t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:43PMWednesday, October 11, 2006
Thanks to our correspondent Elizabeth for alerting us to the following kerfuffle. Ted Diadiun, a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the theater critic from his paper, Tony…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:07PMMonday, October 9, 2006
The SHN/Best of Broadway folks threw a party at Ruby Skye nightclub the other night to entice group ticket buyers to show some love for Legally Blonde, which has its out-of-town tryouts in S…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:11AMWednesday, October 4, 2006
As cute as Reese Witherspoon but with better pipes, Laura Bell Bundy is Broadway’s new Elle Woods. Bundy, who originated the role of Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray, has also played Glinda i…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:48PMMonday, October 2, 2006
If you’ve been paying attention to Broadway, you know the current trend is to turn movies into musicals. At one end of the spectrum you have your hits like The Lion King, Beauty and the Be…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:34PMThursday, September 28, 2006
If you’ve ever wondered what I’d look like as a pirate zombie (and I know you have), wonder no more. My dedication to the Bay Area Living section of our newspapers is such that when they…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:27PM 
