Monday, June 23, 2008
Tony Award-winning Minneapolis-based theater company Theatre de la Jeune Lune will cease to exist as we know it. And those of us in the Bay Area know it thanks to Jeune Lune’s frequent col…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:13PMSunday, June 22, 2008
As a critic at the Oakland Tribune and its sister newspapers, one of my greatest pleasures was instituting a teen theater critic internship, and it was my luck to launch the program with Les…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:13PMOpened June 21, 2008 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts The cast of TheatreWorks’ Snapshots creates scenes from the life of a married couple set to recycled Stephen Schwar…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:49PMSaturday, June 21, 2008
Continues through July 26 at the Campbell Theatre, Martinez Michael Scott Wells and Alexandra Creighton scare off Candarian demons in Evil Dead: The Musical, a Willows Theatre production at …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:25PMApparently audiences didn’t take to the mix of show tunes and magic. Darren Romeo: The Voice of Magic, a Siegfried and Roy presentation, was scheduled to run through mid-July but will now …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:37PMFriday, June 20, 2008
Opened June 19, 2008 at the Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley Anne Darragh (left) is an Episcopalian minister and Chad Deverman is her writing assistant in Keith Bunin’s The Busy World I…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:07PMVasantasenā (Miriam A. Laube) paints a portrait of her lover, Chārudatta (Cristofer Jean) in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of The Clay Cart. Photo by David Cooper. Here’s …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:37PMThursday, June 19, 2008
A Tony Award-winner for Wicked (and we all know it isn’t easy being green), Idina Menzel is bringing her concert tour to the Bay Area. The former Rent star, who just released a major label…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:52PMOpened June 18, 2008 at the Curran Theatre Jaston Williams (left) is Tasty Kreme waitress Helen Bedd and Joe Sears is her co-worker and compatriot Inita Goodwin in Tuna Does Vegas, the fourt…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:18PMWednesday, June 18, 2008
In terms of Broadway composers, Stephen Schwartz is up there with Sondheim and Lloyd Webber as one of the latter-day saviors of modern musical theater. From his first show, Godspell, right u…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:18PMWhy Spencer Day isn’t a big star is beyond me. The 29-year-old crooner, who splits his time between San Francisco, New York and the road, has been plying his trade for almost 10 years now.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:32PMLast week I spent four glorious days in Ashland, Ore., covering the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the San Francisco Chronicle. The first few stories are online now, and conveniently, I pro…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:42AMMTV Music Videos MTV Shows Entertainment News Oh, the sweet, sweet torture of this ridiculous “Blonde” experiment. Yes, it’s Week 3 of “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Ell…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:20AMTuesday, June 17, 2008
This is just too funny not to share. Those good, warped kids at The Onion have put together this news item about the High School Tony Awards. High School Tony Awards Honor Nation’s Biggest…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:34PMBefore we get to the news, here’s a clip from the Tony Awards broadcast featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning best musical In the Heights. OK. Now the news. Like gas prices, …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:44PMMonday, June 16, 2008
Sure the Bay Area is brimming with homegrown theatrical talent. But there’s always room for a few visitors. Now here’s something intriguing: a British theater company called 19;29 is set…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:59AMFor the last four days I’ve been in Ashland, Ore., reviewing shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the San Francisco Chronicle (more on that later), and while the Tonys were on Sund…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:21AMFriday, June 13, 2008
The 2008-09 season hasn’t even begun and already changes are afoot. Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced yesterday that it will postpone David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face, which was to hav…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:28PMThursday, June 12, 2008
Opened June 11, 2008 at American Conservatory Theater Michael Hayden and René Augesen play a brother and sister with more than familial affection for one another in ACT’s production of…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:04AMWednesday, June 11, 2008
This Sunday, the Tony Awards will be handed out. Here’s what you need to know (and get busy organizing your Tony party — we’ve got to get those dismal ratings out of the basement so CB…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:47PMNOW CLOSING JUNE 29 Musical theater turns magical – somewhat«« ½ Flash, bang, wallop Darren Romeo is many things over the course of his 90-minute magic and music show with the cumbersom…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:05AMTuesday, June 10, 2008
Megan Hilty (left) as Glinda and Eden Espinosa as Elphaba from the original LA company of Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus Old friends, new winners mark 30th anniversary season Carole Shorenstei…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:42PM“Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods,” Episode 2 (photo courtesy of MTV) Here’s the problem with the second episode of this Broadway-bedazzled reality show: NO SETH RUDETSKY. Our…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:17PMAfter San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took his foot out of his mouth (he made an inappropriate comment about gay marriage), and after former SF Mayor Willie Brown introduced a film clip, an…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:41AMMonday, June 9, 2008
So much information to digest. First comes news that Annie Proulx’s extraordinary short story, “Brokeback Mountain,” which was turned into a less extraordinary but admirable film, is n…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:49PMSunday, June 8, 2008
Joe Sears is new character Shot and Jaston Williams is Vera Carp in Tuna Does Vegas, the latest in what is now the Tuna Quartet, at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre. Photos by Brenda Ladd. M…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:38PMSaturday, June 7, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle theater writer Robert Hurwitt has an excellent story in today’s paper about the ongoing struggles of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the Bay Area’s 27-year-old Af…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:04PMFriday, June 6, 2008
Continues through June 14 at the Climate Theater, San Francisco Group leader Ryan Eggensperger goes deep into the brain’s quadrants in the environmental theater experience The Group at San…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:42PMThursday, June 5, 2008
Actor Megan Cavanagh has the kind of living arrangement you might see on a TV sitcom – in fact, you should see it on a TV sitcom. Every time she tells someone about her house and her famil…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:58PMYou probably know Roger Rees from his TV work — Robin Colcord on “Cheers,” the British ambassador on “The West Wing” and the doctor with a thing for Christina Yang on “Grey’s A…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:35PMWednesday, June 4, 2008
News of Broadway just because: The revival of A Chorus Line will close Aug. 17 after 759 performances. The production, which had its premiere in San Francisco before heading to Broadway, rec…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:12PM 
