Friday, March 21, 2008
Aurora Theatre Company artistic director Tom Ross has announced his company’s 17th season, opening with what is being touted as an “American Trilogy,” presenting three views of the U.S…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:22PMThursday, March 20, 2008
Now this, dear boy, is exciting. A heretofore “lost” Noel Coward play is having its U.S premiere courtesy of San Francisco’s Thrillpeddlers, the group that specializes in Grand Guignol…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:17PMOpened March 19, 2008, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Thrust Stage Thomas Jay Ryan, Marguerite Stimpson and Danny Wolohan. Photos by Kevin Berne Laughing through the tragic darkness three st…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:32PMWednesday, March 19, 2008
Hot on the heels of their recent Bay Area appearance as honorees at the San Francisco SketchFest, Canada’s squirrelly boys of comedy, The Kids in the Hall, have announced a new tour, and t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:08PMWe’ve seen San Francisco’s Best of Broadway announcing shows in recent weeks, then canceling them. The Wiz disappeared, then Whistle Down the Wind, then the new Irish musical Ha’penny …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:25PMFriday, March 14, 2008
Opened March 10, 2008 at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco New musical finds lyricism in true crime three stars Enigmatic Box About four years ago, playwright Octavio Solis and compos…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:30AMWednesday, March 12, 2008
Opened March 11, 2008 at the Marines Memorial Theatre, San Francisco Judy! Judy! Judy! Stand-up act evolves into play Four Stars – Mama mia! Judy Gold has mother issues. And that’s a goo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:49PMTuesday, March 11, 2008
One of my favorite Bay Area actors, Danny Wolohan, is moving on. Wolohan was voted by American Theatre magazine as one of the country’s seven actors “worth traveling to see,” and I who…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:48PMMonday, March 10, 2008
Below you’ll find the winners of the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. In lieu of a gala this year, winners will attend a cocktail party and receive their awards. DRAMA (In theaters with…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:01PMFriday, March 7, 2008
Want proof? Watch this ad for her show Wishful Drinking at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:52PMTime to start thinking about those season tickets — or at least cherry picking which shows you’re going to make a point of seeing next season. Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s 2008-09 seas…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:36PMWhen Judy Gold began her career in stand-up comedy, she struck, well, gold — literally — when she started imitating her mother. Here’s a sampling. “After my new sunglasses that I bou…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:08PMThursday, March 6, 2008
I was in the lobby at SF Playhouse for an opening a couple weeks ago, and while milling through the crowd, I heard a voice that zinged me straight back to childhood. There I was, 8 years old…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:26PMThe American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has named six finalists in its annual playwriting competition, supported by generous funding from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Tru…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:07PMMonday, March 3, 2008
Shameless plug: I’m the Q in the Q&A Friday for Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s “Page to Stage” series. At 7 p.m. Friday on the Thrust Stage (2025 Addison St., Berkeley), I’ll be …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:09PMSunday, March 2, 2008
Opened March 1, 2008, Magic Theatre Edna O’Brien’s novel-turned-play lacks dramatic fire two stars Page-to-stage misfire In many ways, Edna O’Brien’s Tir na nOg (Land of Youth) feels…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:23PMThursday, February 28, 2008
Am I getting old and cranky or are show tunes getting crappy? Probably a little of both, and I should say very quickly that there’s plenty of new show music that is thrilling, moving, funn…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:41PMTuesday, February 26, 2008
Seems like we’ve written this sentence before — because we have. TheatreFirst, the intrepid small theater company that just will not give up, is moving again. The itinerant troupe always…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:10PMMonday, February 25, 2008
Ha’penny, we hardly knew ye. Hot on the heels of announcing that the big Irish musical Ha’penny Bridge would be part of its season, the folks at SHN/Best of Broadway have announced that …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:09PMWednesday, February 20, 2008
Opened Feb. 19, 2008 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sex, drugs, drinking, celebrity: Fisher tackles it all in Wishful Drinking three 1/2 stars Her mother is famous for, among other things, a …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:29PMMonday, February 18, 2008
Wednesday night (Feb. 20) we’ll experience one of those all-too-rare occasions when we dont’ have to go to Broadway, when Broadway comes to us. PBS’ “Great Performances” will broad…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:10PMThursday, February 14, 2008
Opened Feb. 13, 2008 at American Conservatory Theater Powerful performances tighten ACT’s Knot Three stars (Powerful, scary) Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot comes from a terrifying place, and …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:03PMFor my full interview with Barry Manilow see below or click here. In our conversation, he talked about being a guest coach on “American Idol”: “Most young people sing to their eyelids,…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:03PMIt’s a miracle that even now, Barry Manilow is writing the songs that make, if not the whole world, at least a fair portion of it sing. Could it be magic? Magic had nothing to do with it. …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:51PMWednesday, February 13, 2008
In his highly enjoyable book How Does the Show Go On? An Introduction to the Theater (Disney Editions, $19.95), Thomas Schumacher recounts, in no particular order, all the jobs he’s had in…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:20PMOpened Feb. 11, 2008 at SF Playhouse Stage II Mee’s melancholy Gone goes down easy Three stars (Sad beauty) No man was ever born but he must suffer. He buries his children and gets others …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:55PMWhen I say Amy Sedaris is crazy, I mean that in the best possible way. This is, after all, the sister of writer David Sedaris and the woman who loves to wear a fat suit and disfigure her bea…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:20AMMonday, February 11, 2008
With an archaic-sounding category such as the Best Musical Show Album, it’s no wonder the award (and the winners) don’t make it onto the prime-broadcast. Still, there are those of us who…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:19PMSunday, February 10, 2008
Reading the almanac in the newspaper today, I noticed something interesting and theatrical. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman opened 59 years ago today — Feb. 10, 1949 — at Broadway�…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:01AMSaturday, February 9, 2008
Opened Jan. 8, 2008,Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Word for Word scores with jazzy Blues three [1/2] stars Musical and muscular First we see snapshots, glimpses of lives we have yet to understan…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:49PMWednesday, February 6, 2008
You’re forgiven if you didn’t know quite how amazing Margo Hall is. If you’re a regular Bay Area theatergoer, you already know that Hall is an extraordinary actor. Last year, for insta…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:46PM 
