1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
There's bad news aplenty in the world, so it's always nice to discover some bright spots of good news, especially in the theater world. San Francisco playwright Trevor Allen, who had a sizab…
Paula West is going to do things to you in the dark, and you're going to like it. Now that she can actually be considered a veteran of the San Francisco cabaret scene, West is letting loose …
 Julia Brothers floors 'em in Joel Drake Johnson's The First Grade at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company. Rebecca Schweitzer is in the background. Photo by David Allen  The Bay Area i…
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Megan McGinnis and Robert Adelman Hancock star in the TheatreWorks premiere of
Daddy Long Legs, a new musical. Photo by Mark Kitaoka.
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In the Palo Alto Players production of Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, Becca (Shannon Warrick) and Howie (Earle Carlson) look for comfort after the unimaginable. Photo courtesy of Palo …
I've been spending the last few months with Ira Gershwin, and I must say, I have completely enjoyed his company. Greg MacKellan, the co-artistic director of San Francisco company 42nd Street…
Two extraordinary shows are lighting up Bay Area stages, and in each of them, the specter of death hovers in the shadows. In Trevor Allen's intelligent, compassionate adaptation of Frankenst…
TOP: Ralph and Myron (l-r, Patrick Russell and Charles Dean) have a father-and-son talk as Moe (back, Rod Gnapp) listens in Aurora Theatre Company's production of Awake and Sing! Photo by Da…
Patty Gallagher is a gun-toting Winnie in the Cal Shakes production of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett. Photo by Kevin Berne In the world of live theater, you never know from where the drama wi…
Leo Bloom (Tim Reynolds) and Ulla (Brittany Ogle) in Foothill Music Theatre's The Producers. Photo by David Allen These aren't appearing here in a timely fashion, but they're here, just for …
Shannon Cochran (left) is eldest daughter Barbara and Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons is Violet, her drug-addled mother, in the national Broadway tour of August: Osage County, running t…
Peter Pan (Brandy Collazo) outwits Captain Hook (Gabriel Grilli) in the Peter Pan, The musical, a Berkeley Playhouse production playing through Aug. 23 at Ashby Stage. Photo by Ralph Granich…
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. " Oscar Wilde What a tumultuous year it has been here at Theater Dogs. Thank you for taking the ride. The news is that I have jumped the …
In today's SF Chronicle Sunday Datebook, I wrote about the fine art of clowning. A couple weekends ago I attended a clown class in the Teatro ZinZanni spiegeltent with Peter Pitofsky. Read t…
Mark Bedard is hilarious and charming as the title character in Oregon Shakespeare Festival's new adaptation of Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters. Photo by Jenny Graham Two and a half wee…
I wrote a story for my former employer, the Sacramento Bee, about one of my favorite singers: Spencer Day, who was a San Francisco resident for a while but is now dwelling in Southern Califo…
These crazy kids went and put on a musical! And it's a canny spoof of West Side Story " more cutting edge, sorry to say, than the revival currently on Broadway. See more funny videos and fun…
Vilma Silva and Armando Durán star in Octavio Solis' adaptation of Don Quixote on the Elizabethan Stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Photo by David Cooper. The first round of my re…
Behind every great diva there's a hard-working, often brilliant musical director. For Bernadette Peters, that man is Marvin Laird. The two first worked together in 1961. He was the assistant…
Many theater companies take a break during the summer months and send audiences into the great outdoors for some Shakespeare or Mime Troupe action. But San Jose Repertory Theatre is launchin…
Last week, Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, awarded the annual Scholarships for the Arts from the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon, which…
Opened June 10, 2990 at American Conservatory Theater René Augesen is Ann and Anthony Fusco is Peter in the "Homelife" half of Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo, the final show of the Ameri…
I reviewed Marin Theatre Company's production of What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton as my first reviewing assignment for the Marin Independent Journal. You can read the review here. The show h…
You've heard about monsters being unleashed and wreaking havoc in New York? Well, Beth Wilmurt was just such a monster. The San Francisco-based actor played a ferocious dragon in the final s…
From the ashes of the American Musical Theatre of San Jose rises a whole new series bringing Broadway tours to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, and it's called Broadway San Jose.…
