Wednesday, 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 04:12PMTuesday, June 3, 2008
One of the first things Darren Romeo wants you to know is that yes, his name is really Darren Romeo – Darren Robert Romeo, to be exact. And his first name is a tribute – with a slight sp…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:12PMMonday, June 2, 2008
Audra McDonald is just so darn normal – not that outrageous beauty and talent are normal. But the point is, she could be a raging diva if she so chose. And maybe she is offstage (though I …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:08PMSunday, June 1, 2008
California Shakespeare Theater production opened May 31, 2008, Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda The eight-member cast of California Shakespeare Theater’s Pericles puts on a jousting pageant on s…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:24PMFriday, May 30, 2008
Now here’s a no-brainer: there’s finally going to be a stage musical version of the classic 1977 Muppet made-for-TV musical “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.” Variety’s Gordon C…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:09PMGrowing up, watching “The Carol Burnett Show” on Saturday nights was a highlight of the week. As far back as I can remember, I was a Saturday night TV junkie, with “The Mary Tyler Moor…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:21AMThursday, May 29, 2008
Steve Yockey's Octopus is a thrilling, somewhat frustrating theatrical experience.
This inaugural co-production of the Magic Theatre and Encore Theatre Company delivers a first-rate produc…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:40PMWednesday, May 28, 2008
Some good news from box offices both national and local today. First the local. According to Berkeley Repertory Theatre, coming to the end of its 40th anniversary season, Nilaja Sun’s No C…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:59PMThe summer season is starting to, pardon the expression, heat up, though anyone who has been through a Bay Area summer knows that summer does not necessarily mean heat around here. – Lions…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:58PMTuesday, May 27, 2008
Got a little excited when I saw the Mamma Mia! trailer in a movie theater recently. With the success of Hairspray last year, it looks like summer is becoming the season for frothy stage musi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:15PMMonday, May 26, 2008
This holiday weekend I saw some movies on the big screen (Indiana Jones and the blah blah Crystal Skull – exactly what you think it would be, enjoyable but nothing more; Iron Man, which ma…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:28PMAt The Marsh in San Francisco through June 29 Ann Randolph wrote and stars in Squeeze Box at The Marsh. The solo show is about her loss and rediscovery of faith. Superb solo show squeezes…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:28PMSunday, May 25, 2008
Here’s some good news for those of us shut out of the City Arts & Lectures event at which former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich (aka “The Butcher of Broadway”) interviewe…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:10PMSaturday, May 24, 2008
Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images / Jan. 9, 2008 It’s true! Katie Holmes isn’t just a pretty, skinny Victoria Beckham-wannabe clothes horse; nor is she simply a trophy wife capable of pos…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:01PMFriday, May 23, 2008
A Shotgun Players production at the Ashby Stage, Berkeley, through June 22 Jason Craig, who also wrote the show, tackles the title role in Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, a Shotgun Pla…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:55PMThursday, May 22, 2008
Meet Cubby Bernstein, the best damn Tony campaign guy around. He’s a about 13 years old (but has seemingly been around forever), and he’s the closest thing the Broadway community has to …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:15PMWe still don’t know what’s in store for the new SHN/Best of Broadway season (announcement to be made soon). But news out of New York is that there are all kinds of tours heading out on t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:17PMWednesday, May 21, 2008
I have found the first Theater Dogs beach book of the summer. I loved Marc Acito’s first novel, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater because it w…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:22PMIt’s worth reporting SF Playhouse’s 2008-09 season just for the name of the second show of the season. Check it out: Shining City by Conor McPherson (Oct. 1-Nov. 22) – Wonderful Irish …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:54PMTuesday, May 20, 2008
Two wonderful actors, formerly of the Bay Area, are having some good days in the New York theater world. We’re sorry they’re not having good theater days in the Bay Area, but we wish the…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:43PMMonday, May 19, 2008
Every year, the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon present $10,000 scholarships to three talented high school seniors from the Bay Area. Jo Schuman Silver, producer of BBB, an…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:35PMLaugh for a worthy cause on Wednesday, June 11 when The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation presents COMEDY TONIGHT! , an evening of “outrageous comedy & decadent divas.” Which begs the q…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:18PMSunday, May 18, 2008
The boys of Jersey Boys in Las Vegas: from left: Erich Bergen, Rick Faugno, Jeremy Kushnier and Jeff Leibow in the production at the Palazzo. Photo by Joan Marcus. Since leaving my illustrio…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:02PMAnika Noni Rose and Terrence Howard in the Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Photo by the New York Times Interesting article in Variety about the recent Broadway production of Te…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:36PMSaturday, May 17, 2008
News from the Rialto: “American Idol” winner (Season 5) Taylor Hicks is going to fly onto Broadway as Teen Angel in the revival of Grease (you know, the one you didn’t want but came wi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:05PMMega-superstar and truth teller Dame Edna Everage (aka Barry Humphries) is coming back to San Francisco, her spiritual home, and, if the dame is to be believed, the home of her fashion desig…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:09AMFriday, May 16, 2008
Here’s an intriguing subtitle: “A found-object puppetry play inside the mind of Albert Einstein.” That subtitle is attached to One Stone: Einstein, a work-in-progress from two of the B…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:00AMAt The SF Playhouse through June 14 Susi Damilano is Agnes and Gabriel Marin is Peter in Tracy Letts’ Bug at the SF Playhouse. Photos by Zabrina Tipton. It sure is fun to watch an audie…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:56AMThursday, May 15, 2008
Cassie Beck, local actress and co-artistic director of San Francisco’s Crowded Fire Theatre Company went off to New York to be in Adam Bock’s Drunken City. And what do you know? She won …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:51PMAmerican Conservatory Theater’s final Koret Visiting Artist Series event is a good one — and it’s free! On Sunday, May 18 at 5 p.m. on the ACT stage, the topic is “Notes on Music and…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:31PMTony Award-winning performer Ben Vereen is spending this Saturday night (May 17) in Kanbar Hall at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco with a self-explanatory show called An Intimat…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:21PM 
