1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
"God bless us, everyone!" doesn't warm the cockles of every holiday heart. Traditional holiday theatrical fare is great, but sometimes you need an alternative. Thankfully, here in the Bay Ar…
Rhonnie Washington (left) is The Foundling Father, an Abraham Lincoln lookalike, who lets customers (such as David Westley Skillman) take aim and fire a cap gun at him in Suzan-Lori Parks' T…
First a disclosure: the following deals with one of my best friends, who happens to be a fantastic performer and a veteran of the Bay Area theater and cabaret scene. One of the reasons Craig…
James Carpenter plays Ebenezer Scrooge "dead seriously." "It's just like when you play farce," Carpenter explains. "You don't play it funny. You have to invest as fully as you can." Carpente…
John Cudia as the Phantom woos Trista Moldovan with the music of the night in the U.S. touring production of The Phantom of the Opera, which plays through the holidays at the Orpheum Theatre…
Husband-and-wife team Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda follow up the success of Striking 12 with a new two-person musical, Long Story Short, a TheatreWorks production now at the Lucie Ster…
American Musical Theatre of San Jose announced Dec. 1 that it was ceasing operations effectively and that its slate of upcoming shows, both self-produced and touring, were canceled. A call t…
The final curtain has fallen abruptly on the American Musical Theatre of San Jose. The group sent out a press release today announcing that it will cease operations effective immediately and…
Today is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, a sad anniversary but an important one. Would that we were celebrating the end of AIDS in the world, but we're a long way away from that part…
Dame Edna warbles her way through songs and insults audience member like nobody's business in her new show, Dame Edna: Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour, at San Francisco's Post Stree…
Forget about High School Musical. The real teen movie musical to see is Were the World Mine, a favorite of the gay film festival circuit that is now seeing wider release. While Disney's HSM …
Carlo D'Amore plays himself, his mother, members of his family and assorted other characters in his one-man show No Parole at The Marsh in San Francisco. Photo by Rudy Meyers It's a laugh se…
Creative schizophrenia is a common occurrence in show biz. You've got actors, writers and sometimes even directors donning different personalities in the name of storytelling and entertainme…
EXTENDED AGAIN! NOW THROUGH JAN. 18! The rambunctious cast of Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights tells the tale of the virtuous merchant, his hideous bride and the beauty who tricked him. P…
EXTEDNED THROUGH DEC. 14 The cast of Marin Theatre Company's The Seafarer by Conor McPherson includes (from left) Julian Lopez-Morillas as Richard, Andrew Hurteau as Ivan, Andy Murray as Sha…
Lee Meriwether has had a long, distinguished career that stretches from her beauty queen days as Miss San Francisco, Miss California and eventually Miss America in the mid-'50s to her stint …
EXTENDED THROUGH DEC. 21! The cast of the Magic Theatre's Evie's Waltz includes, from left, Marielle Heller, Darren Bridgett and Julia Brothers. The Carter W. Lewis play continues through De…
Pete Townshend and The Who did it. Phil Collins did it badly. Duncan Sheik did it brilliantly. Billy Joel sort of did it. And Elton John does it every other day. Now it's time for Ben Folds …
A familiar face is back among us. Carlo D'Amore got his start in the acting world more than a decade ago in productions with some prominent Bay Area theaters: Theatre Rhinoceros' Twelfth Nig…
No one ever said running a small theater company was easy. Last summer, TheatreFIRST founding artistic director Clive Chafer handed leadership of the company over to Dylan Russell and Alliso…
The following letter, by musical theater performer Susan Egan (Disney's Beauty and the Beast) has been making the rounds of various social networking sites and includes a long quote from Hai…
Broadway diva Patti LuPone releases a new old CD today: Patti LuPone at Les Mouches (Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom records). The disc is new, but the performance captured on it is from a New York nig…
42nd Street Moon, the company that specializes in charming productions of classic and lesser-known musicals, has announced a change in its season lineup. Next March, the previously announced…
Out of the ruins and rubbleOut of the smokeOut of our night of struggleCan we see a ray of hope?One pale thin ray reaching for the day We can build a beautiful cityYes, we can; Yes, we can �…
Michael Ray Wisely (left) is a British soldier and Gabriel Marin is Dick Dudgeon, a man about to hang even though he's not the man the Brits think he is in the Aurora Theatre Company's produ…
