Thursday, April 17, 2008
I 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 "Ameri…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Even 3,000 miles away, San Francisco helps define New York. This according to New York magazine, whose 40th anniversary issue pays homage to the so-called 196 (why 196? why not 212 or a more…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:47PM[SHARE]We here at Theater Dogs love the idea of blogs, obviously. We used to love newspapers, but now, not so much. They're so…what's the word?…pagebound. Sure there are good writers at newspap…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2008
A quick note to alert Bay Area folks about an interesting opportunity coming right up. On Friday, April 18 and Saturday April 19, Campo Santo is opening up its rehearsal process to give audi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:01AM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2008
Arielle Jacobs is Gabriella Montez and John Jeffrey Martin is Troy Bolton in the touring production of Disney's High School Musical coming to San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre. Photo Credit: J…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:58PM[SHARE]Now here's something that might actually get my lazy butt to finally trek to Martinez and check out the Willows Theatre's fancy new cabaret theater (the home of every Nunsense show known to …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:06PM[SHARE]Opened April 10, 2008 at the Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Carla Spindt (left) is Hecuba, queen of fallen Troy, and Sepideh Makabi is a member of the Greek Chorus in the Aurora Theatre's producti…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2008
C. Kelly Wright is Caroline Thibodeaux in TheatreWorks' Caroline, or Change (Anise Ritchie in the rear is The Moon). Photos by David Allen TheatreWorks tackles challenging `Caroline' with so…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:05PM[SHARE]Our world is turning green and pink again. Those wildly wonderful and wicked women are coming back. SHN/Best of Broadway has announced that the mega-hit musical Wicked is returning to San Fr…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2008
You can't argue with the price, and the event promises to be pretty interesting. Recognized for his unique interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear, in which he plays all ten roles himself,…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:21PM[SHARE]Above: Alissa Mortenson in Nebunele Theatre Company's Medea Knows Best, part of this year's DIVAfest at the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco. Photo by Rob Gruhl Celebrating the work of establis…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:55PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2008
News came down from on high today that Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, currently on Broadway, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The Chicago playwright and actor is the author of Man from …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:54PM[SHARE]Dan Hoyle knows how to liven up a party. On Sunday afternoon, Theatre Bay Area hosted the Glickman New Play Award reception at the home of Nancy Quinn (a TBA board member) and Tom Driscoll (…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2008
Chazz Palminteri, one of the reasons I love Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway so much, is bringing his one-man show A Bronx Tale to San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre Sept. 23 through Oct…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:31PM[SHARE]OK, so that spunky little can-do musical [title of show] won't be trying out in San Francisco before heading to Broadway. Our loss. But the show is actually heading to Broadway. Tickets go o…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2008
Brooklynn Pulver (above center) is Tracy Turnblad in the touring production of Hairspray. Photo by Phil Martin Last summer, it was yet another musical breathing new life into the revival of …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:01PM[SHARE]Opened April 2, 2008 at the Post Street Theatre, San Francisco Connolly unbound: Comedy sets Scot free 3 1/2 stars " Big, bulky laughs Billy Connolly must tell you something. He simply must.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:22PM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2008
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has announced that Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder is the winner of its 2008 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:33PM[SHARE]Loretta Greco, whom Bay Area audiences know mainly from her work with American Conservatory Theater, has been named as the new artistic director of the Magic Theatre. She replaces Chris Smit…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:53PM[SHARE]Yes, Katie Holmes, late of Dawson's Creek, she of the couch-jumping husband, the ever-changing cute hairdos and the impossibly adorable Suri parentage, is being rumored to be heading to Broa…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2008
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations to receive the 2008 Harold and Mimi Steinberg /American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 29, 2008
The arrival of a new Adam Bock play is always an event. Even though the Canadian playwright decided to forgo the pleasures of life in the Bay Area for the rigors of a New York writer's exist…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:41PM[SHARE]Saw a fantastic documentary last night that I highly recommend: Word and Music by Jerry Herman. It was on PBS for about a second, but it's available via PBS Home Video. Clearly this was a la…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2008
Opened March 26, 2008 at American Conservatory Theater The town's mayor (Graham Beckel, seated) succumbs to a sneezing fit while accepting the congratulations of the town council (from left:…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2008
This isn't a theater item, but I wanted to share with you a superb concert experience I had Tuesday night at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, where k.d. lang brought her Watershed tour promo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:15PM[SHARE]Woodminster Summer Musicals, the annual theatrical tradition of musicals under the stars, will produce three shows this summer at the Woodminster Amphitheater in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Par…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:59PM[SHARE]There's some juicy-good stuff in American Conservatory Theater's newly announced 2008-09 season. Here's the rundown: Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard (Sept. 11-Oct. 12) " Surprising no one, esp…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2008
Woo hoo! I love the smell of Tuna in the theater! Two pieces of good news here. The first is that Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard have written a fourth Greater Tuna show: Tuna Does …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2008
Opened March 22, 2008, SF Playhouse Stacy Ross and Louis Parnell try a new form of barroom therapy in Coronado. Photos by Zabrina Tipton Lehane's noirish thriller offers pulpy delights three…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 22, 2008
Opened March 21, 2008, Ashby Playhouse, Berkeley Trish Mulholland as Mrs. Warren, Emily Jordan as Vivie. Photos by Howard Gerstein Shotgun Players do bang up work on Shaw's Profession three …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:02PM[SHARE]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. at d…
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