1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
Rebecca Dines is a harried mother desperately trying to figure out how to help her 9-year-old son, who may have Attention Deficit Disorder, in Lisa Loomer's Distracted, a TheatreWorks produc…
Word from New York today is that Jack Wrangler, the gay porn star turned musical theater writer, has died after a struggle with lung disease. He was 62 and his survived by his wife, the sing…
Last week I interviewed Craig Jessup for the San Francisco Chronicle about his series of Craig Jessup Sings Noël Coward concerts at the Exit Theatre. For whatever reason, the story failed…
The American Theatre Critics Association has selected E.M. (Ellen) Lewis' Song of Extinction to receive the 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg /ATCA New Play Award. The announcement was made Apr…
Charles Ross, the man who brought us his One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, is heading to a whole other dark side " and this one has a real ring to it. For two performances only, Ross performs The O…
Yussef El Guindi, who served as literary manager for San Francisco's Golden Thread Productions, a dramaturg for the Eureka Theatre Company and a reader for the Magic Theatre, has won the Ame…
If you haven't seen Burn the Floor, the hot, hot, hot ballroom dance floor that has been extended through April 26 at San Francisco's Post Street Theatre, you really should. If you're a fan …
The cast of Marin Theatre Company's Lydia includes, from left, Gloria Garayua as Ceci, Adriana Gavria as Lydia, David Pintado as Misha and Elias Escobedo as Alvaro. Photos by Ed Smith Power,…
Opened April 1 at American Conservatory Theater Soldiers rock out with their "guns" out in American Conservatory Theater's War Music, a world premiere adaptation written and directed Lillian…
As someone who has loved musicals since his formative years, Jim Gardia is certainly in the right business. And to think, he could have ended up as a swim coach. In college, Gardia, who was …
Aurora Theatre Company artistic director Tom Ross announced today his Berkeley company's 18th season, which stems from the theme "Family and Fortune." In addition to classics and newer works…
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is rocking and rolling with Green Day. After the success of Stew's Passing Strange, it seems Berkeley Rep can't get enough of the rock. Already announced for the 2…
EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 9!!!  Cutting Ball's `Pain' hurts so good«««« What begins in darkness ends about an hour later on a bleak shiver of hope. Will Eno's Thom Pain (based on …
After three months on hiatus, Theater Dogs is once again back in action! I was in Sacramento working for an excellent newspaper, but now I'm back in San Francisco and happily on the theater …
Hello, loyal Theater Dogs readers. First, I'd like to thank you for bothering to show up here in the first place. I'm so grateful (and have been since the blog started in August, 2006) for y…
Theatergoing in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of life's treats. No question about it. If you love theater, this is a wonderland. In this devastating economic climate, may that only hold …
Broadway's first couple, Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, had a pretty good 2008. He had a long run in the final Kander and Ebb musical, Curtains, and she was the Lady of the Lake in Monty P…
At this bleak moment in history, when it seems the roof is crashing down on arts organizations all around us, it's refreshing to hear about on theater company literally knocking down a wall …
Some members of the Los Angeles company of Wicked (seen above) will be hopping the broomstick north when the production lands at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre in January. Photo by Joan Mar…
Shakespeare Santa Cruz is the latest victim of the apocalyptic economy. SSC board co-presidents Bill Richter and Scott Hawkins posted an "urgent message" on the SSC Web site that stated due …
Football star Steve (Stephen Foreman, left) meets the fabulously gay student body of Heartsville High in the musical Zanna, Don't at the New Conservatory Theatre Center. Photos by Lois Tema …
The cast of Aaron Loeb's Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party performs an elaborate opening number in the SF Playhouse world-premiere production. Photos by Zabrina Tipton. Â History, pol…
James Carpenter (center) is Scrooge in American Conservatory Theater's annual production of A Christmas Carol. Photo by Kevin Berne American Conservatory Theater's annual production of A Chr…
Reconnecting to what the holiday season actually means is a difficult thing to do amid the noise of our busy world. It's especially hard this year in a country drowning in bad news, bankrupt…
For ACT's `Rich and Famous, all's fair in love and Guare The cast for American Conservatory Theater's Rich and Famous, a 1974 satirical comedy by John Guare (pictured a left, photo by Paul K…
