1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
Last Saturday night, the San Francisco Mime Troupe's one and only transport van was stolen. In preparation for this summer's road tour around the Bay Area, the Troupe had just outfitted the …
Live (well, the West Coast version of live, which is actually three hours NOT live, but hey, we're on the West Coast) 63rd Annual Tony Awards blogging! Please comment and join the conversati…
The cast of Terrence McNally's Some Men includes (from left) Brandon Finch, P.A Cooley, George Patrick Scott, Scott Cox, Dann Howard, Christopher Morrell, Patrick Michael Dukeman, and Matthe…
Lillian Askew is 4-year-old Lucy and Gabriel Grilli is her imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade in Noah Haidle's oddball comedy Mr. Marmalade, a Custom Made Theatre Co. production. Photos by Bess…
Paul Gerrior is Krapp, a 69-year-old writer spending his birthday with the spirits of his younger selves via an old reel-to-reel tape recorder in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, a Cuttin…
Finally caught up with the outstanding documentary Every Little Step about casting the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line. Though some Chorus Line purists balked at the revival, I was pretty …
I wrote a feature on New Conservatory Theatre Center's Some Men by Terrence McNally for today's San Francisco Chronicle. You can read it here. Here are a few pieces of my interview with Mr. …
If you want a big, dramatic scene involving John Rosenberg smashing things on his way out the door, you better look elsewhere. About three years ago, along with Tore Ingersoll-Thorp and Dami…
Husband-and-wife team Rob Melorse and Paige Rogers are the creative force behind San Francisco's The Cutting Ball Theater. The company is heading into its 10th anniversary season. Photo cour…
The new Broadway cast recording of West Side Story is out today in all the usual outlets (in three dimensions on CD, digitally via iTunes, etc.). To celebrate the classic work of Leonard Ber…
Extended through June 28 Zoë Winters (left) is Jackie, James Wagner (center) is Dennis and Warren David Keith is Philip in the Magic Theatre's season-ending production of Mauritius by The…
Opened May 30, 2009 at the Bruns Amphitheater Alex Morf and Sarah Nealis are the star-crossed young lovers in the California Shakespeare Theater's season-opening production of Romeo and Juli…
This job I've given myself " to write about the people and companies creating the lively and wonderful Bay Area theater scene " is incredibly fun. I've been doing it for various publications…
Not to get too political here, but isn't it refreshing, theater fans, to have a First Family that enjoys and advocates the arts " and specifically theater? President and Mrs. Obama are sched…
Nick Gabriel is the Emcee and Kate Del Castillo is Sally Bowled in the Center Repertory Company production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret. Photos by kevinberne.com Decadence, pineapples, Nazis …
Opened May 27, 2009 at the Golden Gate Theatre Jeff Dumas is loyal sidekick Patsy (backed up by the Lady of the Lake's Laker Girls) in the Broadway touring production of Monty Python's Spama…
Anthony Rapp (left) is Mark, Lexi Lawson (center) is Mimi and Adam Pascal is Roger in the latest national touring company of the rock musical Rent, coming to San Francisco's Curran Theatre i…
Everything wonderful about the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights is captured in the new PBS documentary "In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams." (The show airs at 8 p.m., …
The cast of Killing My Lobster's KML Hits Highway 101 includes (from left) Christine Bullen, Callum Grant, Leslie Waggoner, Andy Alabran and Nick A. Olivero. Photo by Ashley Forrette. In the…
EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 21! JoAnne Winter is Cora and Ryan Tasker is Billy in Two on a Party, a theatrical adaptation of a Tennessee Williams short story and a co-production of Word for Word a…
Italian actor/writer/director Roberto Benigni has had some cinematic difficulty since his Academy Award-winning Life Is Beautiful came out more than a decade ago. He was incredibly creepy as…
EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 28! Mark Jackson (left) is Faust and Peter Ruocco is Mephistopheles in Jackson's adaptation of Goethe's Faust, Part 1, a Shotgun Players production at the Ashby Stage. …
My love of things Disney is no secret, so imagine what a thrill it was to get a chance to talk with Disney songwriter Richard M. Sherman about his long-running rift with songwriting partner …
EXTENDED AGAIN THROUGH JULY 12! Maria Candelaria (left) is Belicia, Biko Eisen-Martin (center) is Fukú and Vanessa Cota is Lola in the Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts production of …
We already knew that Carrie Fisher's autobiographical solo show, Wishful Drinking, was headed to Broadway. What we didn't know was that Fisher will be Drinking at Berkeley Repertory Theatre …
