Thursday, May 15, 2008
Tony 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 12:21PMIt’s all about us, right? Sure the Tony Awards celebrate NEW YORK theater and Broadway and all that jazz, but what about US? Not a problem. We can even make the Tonys Bay Area-centric. It�…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:09PMWednesday, May 14, 2008
Cool things happening in San Francisco during the next day or two. Check them out: – The pop opera The Rosenbach Company is at 8 tonight (May 14) at the Jewish Community Center. The piece …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:22PMTuesday, May 13, 2008
Tony Award nominations are out today. Here’s how it shook out: BEST PLAY: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard The Seafarer by Conor McPherson The 39 Steps…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:28PMOpened May 12, 2008 on Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Thrust Stage EXTENDED AGAIN THROUGH JUNE 11!!! Nilaja Sun in her dynamic, moving solo show No Child… at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Ph…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:43PMMonday, May 12, 2008
The Tony Awards are less than a month away, and it seems sex is already tripping them up. The wonderful musical Passing Strange, which played Berkeley Repertory Theatre before heading to the…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:34PMMichael Phillis is one of those young actors who makes you excited you took a chance and saw a young actor. His debut solo show, D*FACE, at the New Conservatory Theatre Center could have bee…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:13PMSunday, May 11, 2008
The Magic Theatre, now under the artistic direction of Loretta Greco, has announced its 2008-09 season. Here’s the lineup: The K of D, an urban legend by Laura Schellhardt Sept. 20 – Oct…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:07PMFriday, May 9, 2008
Set those DVRs. I guess KQED isn’t too concerned with the “live” part of “Live from Lincoln Center.” The concert production of Camelot that will air at noon this Sunday (May 12) wa…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:48PMThursday, May 8, 2008
Opened May 7, 20008 at the Curran Theatre, San Francisco The cast of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Photos by Tistram Kenton Beautiful, challenging, rewarding – those are three words that im…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:04PMWednesday, May 7, 2008
The cast and crew of SF Playhouse’s Bug. Director Jon Tracy is on the right in the hat. Ask Jon Tracy what’s bugging him these days, and the answer is easy: Bug. Tracy is directing the B…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:24PMTuesday, May 6, 2008
CounterPULSE, one of the Bay Area’s most unique incubators and presenters of new work from artists of all kinds, has a spiffy Web site and a new blog that you should check out: http://coun…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:57PMOne more Las Vegas note before moving on: I wish I had known about AccessVegas.com before my trip last week. CEO/Managing Editor Ted Newkirk has built up quite a little online Vegas empire w…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:45PMSunday, May 4, 2008
What a party! You expect big things in Las Vegas, and that’s what you get. The Palazzo put on quite a show before and after the show as Jersey Boys officially opened on May 3, becoming the…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:01PMOpened May 3 at the Palazzo Las Vegas OK, so technically we’re not “live” in Las Vegas anymore (6:05 a.m. flight from LV to SFO – ouch). But given that it feels like I’m still at t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:31PMSaturday, May 3, 2008
Second night of the Theater Dogs Vegas adventure took us to Blue Man Group at the Venetian next door, and I have to say, I wasn’t overly impressed. Can a Vegas show full of so many bells a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:30PMFriday, May 2, 2008
Yes, Theater Dogs is on the road. We’re in Las Vegas for the opening of Jersey Boys, one of our favorite shows. So we decided to come a few days early, drink in the wonders of the Palazzo …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:32PMThursday, May 1, 2008
Opened April 30 at American Conservatory Theater Pamela Reed (left) as Ella, chucks artichokes out of the fridge across a prone Jack Willis as Weston and toward Jud Williford as her son, Wes…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:12AMWednesday, April 30, 2008
Opened April 29 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Roda Theatre Opera, drama create intriguing hybrid in FigaroThree stars Figaro, Figaro, Fi-ga-roooo! Theatre de la Jeune Lune returns to Ber…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:47PMSad news and a call for your support. Morey Goldstein (above left in his Modern Rocketry days), probably best known for playing Richard Carpenter opposite his wife, Katie Guthorn, as Karen C…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:45AMTuesday, April 29, 2008
As ever, so many interesting things going on in Bay Area theater: – The Oakland East Bay Symphony is gearing up for a glittery concert production of Follies, May 16 and 18 at the Paramount…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:19PMI’m not going anywhere at the moment (except Las Vegas for the opening of Jersey Boys later this week — hope to be blogging live if technology cooperates, but if not, check in on Sunday …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:06PMSaturday, April 26, 2008
One of my favorite people in the world, Carol Burnett, turns 73 today. I think one of the reasons I love theater so much was that growing up, my favorite show was “The Carol Burnett Show.�…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:35PMThursday, April 24, 2008
Looking for quality entertainment this weekend? Never a difficult task in the Bay Area. In fact, there’s often too much from which to choose. Here are some tips: – American Conservatory …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:01PMThe force is most certainly with her. Carrie Fisher, fresh from her hit Berkeley Repertory Theatre show Wishful Drinking, a one-woman autobiographical play, is taking the show on the road. A…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:15PMWednesday, April 23, 2008
Berkeley’s Shotgun Players have received a challenge grant opportunity from the East Bay Community Foundation’s Fund for Artists to keep their tradition of free in-the-park summer theate…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:26PMAccording to “American Idol,” Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is responsible for some of the most “important” musicals of all time. Wow. That’s pretty big. Step aside, Rodgers and Hammerst…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:14PMTuesday, April 22, 2008
Casts and creative teams for the first two Cal Shakes shows have been announced, and it looks like it’s shaping up to be another hot summer in the chilly environs of the Bruns Amphitheater…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:49PMFriday, April 18, 2008
Bay Area audiences were the first to see the most recent revival of A Chorus Line before it headed to New York (where it’s still running at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre). Now, as the Broa…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:43PMThursday, April 17, 2008
Paul Gordon’s musical version of Emma, which Bay Area audiences turned into TheatreWorks’ highest-grossing production in its 38-year history, continues its merry matchmaking. Cincinnati …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:56PMI knew there’d be a theater connection eventually so I could write about it here. A point of pride for me the last seven years or so was that I had never so much as seen an episode of “A…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:31PM 
