This Theater Dogs website has been going since August 1, 2006, making it a solid 15 years’ worth of theater news, reviews and assorted other stuff that captured my attention. If you’re a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:26PMLet it snow, let it snow, let it snow! The San Francisco cast of the new Tony Award-winning adaptation of A Christmas Carol warm up winter nights on the stage of the Golden Gate Theatre. Bel…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:33PMOne thing we can say for sure about Stephen Sondheim is that he died knowing just how loved and admired he was. It seems like the legendary Broadway composer was receiving lifetime tributes …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:13PMThe cast of the world-premiere Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley includes (from left) Lauren Spencer as Georgiana Darcy, Aidaa Peerzada as Emily Grey, Emilie Whelan as Kitty Bennet…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:32PMThe cast of Charles L. Mee’s Wintertime at Berkeley Repertory Theatre includes (from left) Carmen Berkeley (Ariel), Sharon Lockwood (Hilda), Lorri Holt (Bertha), James Carpenter (Frank), T…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:13PMThe cast of The Lincoln Center Theater production of Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady includes (from left, center) Sam Simahk as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Shereen Ahmed as Eliza Doolittle, Ke…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:45PMThe cast of the North American tour of Jesus Christ Superstar (featuring Aaron LaVigne in the center as the title character) has a light last supper. The show is at the Golden Gate Theatre a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:02PMRuben Ingwersen (left) and Jérémi Levesque hit remarkable heights in Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story, the exuberant new show at Club Fugazi. Below: Devin Henderson jumps throu…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:33PMFor the Record Live and Feinstein’s at the Nikko present BratPack, a nostalgic fusion of ’80s movies and music that feels part musical, part concert, part vintage video from the age of M…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:35PMStacy Ross is the star and the host of Communion, a new play presented on Zoom by American Conservatory Theater. Photos courtesy of American Conservatory Theater For almost 30 years now, I h…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:17PMDenmo Ibrahim as Dina and Ramiz Monsef as Yusef in Marin Theatre Company and Storykrapht’s live and interactive premiere of Brilliant Mind by Denmo Ibrahim. Below: Dina and Yusef deal with…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:44PMComposer/performer Heather Christian stars in the original streaming film adaptation of the Bushwick Starr’s production of Animal Wisdom. Below:Christian and her cast/band connect with ano…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:31PMDoris Bumpus plays Billie Holiday in the 42nd Street Moon streaming production of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Brill by Lanie Robertson. Photo courtesy of 42nd Street Moon The extraordina…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:30PMI have two recommendations for online theater streaming. The first is a play written by and starring one of our best stage actors, and the second is an engaging reading of a timely play abou…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:40PMImmersive Van Gogh allows visitors to experience what it might be like if you stepped into a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. The multimedia experience runs through Sept. 6 at SVN West in San F…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:37PMDavis (Jamella Cross, left) explains herself to Ms. T. (Safiya Fredericks) after an altercation in the classroom in [hieroglyph], a co-production of San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hans…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:47PMWilliam DeMeritt is Nathan in Lauren Gunderson’s The Catastrophist produced by Marin Theatre Company and Round House Theatre. Photos courtesy of Marin Theatre Company; Director of Photogra…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:38PMJames Carpenter revisits the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in American Conservatory Theater’s A Christmas Carol: On Air, an audio adaptation of the beloved annual production. Photo by Kevin Ber…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:07PMSitting in the intimate Aurora Theatre watching great actors close up is one of the great treats of Bay Area theater. Even though we can't be together in that space for a while, the Aurora c…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:12PMThe Bay Area theater scene has been short on excitement, understandably, these last seven months. So it's beyond thrilling news when a theater company, in this case San Francisco Playhouse a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:58PMJosh Kornbluth is really working the Empathy Circuit these days. Unlike, say, the Borscht Belt or the nearly vanished cabaret clubs, the Empathy Circuit isn't any sort of entertainment netwo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:57PMCredit creative directors and designers who are working to turn Zoom into a dynamic theater space. American Conservatory Theater kicks off the fall theater, such as it is, with a production …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:37PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins' Gloria is a fascinating play. It's a lively workplace comedy until it's an unsettling workplace drama. There's a sheen of satire to it but also reality and heart. The…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:46PMACT in S.F. presents Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' funny and scary 'Gloria,' perhaps even more shocking for what it says than what it depicts.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:25PMWhen a show flops on Broadway and then undergoes serious re-tooling, you hold out hope that lessons were learned, wrongs righted and mistakes corrected. The debut musical from rock icon Stin…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:44PMSting's musical "The Last Ship," inspired by his English childhood, got a major rewrite but is still weighed down by cliches and blandness.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:36PMSpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, is the kind of energetic, colorful endeavor that nearly did the trick when it came to making everybody happy. Director Tina Landau and scenic/cos…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:48PMDon't expect a traditional A-to-B narrative from this fascinating play, says our theater critic. Instead, "Veep" and "Arrested Development" star Tony Hale bemuses audiences with an unexpecte…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:09PMWill Eno is one of the most interesting playwrights in the theaterverse. He's weird and brilliant, funny and deeply humane. Because there can be an oblique and highly theatrical quality to h…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:08PMFor a terrible show, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical is fairly enjoyable, and that is for one reason alone: the music. As jukebox musicals go, this one is toward the bottom of the list, whi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:43PMHarry Potter, known as "the boy who lived," has continuously found life on the pages of seven best-selling novels, on the screen in eight blockbuster films, in theme parks both in Florida an…
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