1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
Opened Oct. 5, 2008 Christian Cagigal (left) is Miguel, Andrew Calabrese (center) is Cardenio and Erin Carter is Don Fernando in Precarious Theatre's new musical I'm Yours! (or Deranged by L…
Here's a recipe for a perfect Saturday night: go see a play, but make sure it gets out around 10, and then head to the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko and see Terese Genecco and her Little Big…
Opened Oct. 4, 2008, SF Playhouse Paul Whitworth (left) is John, a grief-stricken widower, and Alex Moggridge is Ian, a fledgling therapist in the SF Playhouse production of Conor McPherson'…
New Crowded Fire artistic director Marissa Wolf announced Saturday that Monday's opening of My Name Is Vera Cupido by Stephanie Fleischmann has been cancelled, as has the entire run of the p…
Not that we're getting political, but this is just too funny: a mix of presidential politics and show tunes " an unlikely combo. And the thing is that whoever is singing this re-written ditt…
Alison Ewing (left) is the lone woman in 42nd Street Moon's production of Irma La Douce, the story of a sweet Parisian prostitute. Playing some of the "mecs" in her life are (from top) Micha…
Maya Lawson plays the inhabitants of a small Ohio town in the ghost story The K of D, the one-woman show that opens the new Magic Theatre season. Photos by www.DavidAllenStudio.com  Magi…
Always a lot going on in the big, wide world of Bay Area theater, so let's get right to it. SHAKESPEARE RAPS: The African-American Shakespeare Company is in the midst of MacB: The MacBeth Pr…
ACT's The Quality of Life stars, from left JoBeth Williams, Dennis Boutsikaris and Laurie Metcalf. Photo courtesy of the Geffen Playhouse and Michael Lamont. American Conservatory Theater ha…
Green-faced fans of all kinds swarmed San Francisco's Union Square on Friday, Sept. 26 " Wicked Day in San Francisco, according to a proclamation from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom " at a…
 Chazz Palminteri excavates his childhood in his one-man show A Bronx Tale, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre through Oct. 19. Photo by Joan Marcus  Chazz Palminteri offers a `B…
Greg MacKellan and has cast and crew for Irma LaDouce are finding out what the expression "the show must go on" really means. A mere week before the first preview performances of the 1950s m…
The cast of "Best of Fringe" Award-winning Lost and Found in the Mission includes (from left) Rowena Richie, Susie Hara, Carol Landes, Joan D. Saunders, Peter Griggs and Jocelyn Truitt. The …
Megan Hilty (left), Allison Janney (center) and Stephanie J. Block in the world premiere of 9 to 5: The Musical at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles Music Center. The sh…
SAD NEWS! After I posted the article below, I received a press release stating that for health reasons, Carol Channing has had to cancel her San Francisco performances this week. This is the…
Opened Sept. 19, 2008 at the Ashby Stage  Sean Owens (center) is Ocar Wilde in Shotgun Players' production of Vera Wilde, a musical play by Chris Jeffries. Owens is flanked by (from left…
Varla Jean Merman stars as vixenish Crystal Allen in Jungle Red, the musical parody of The Women at the Victoria Theatre. Photo by Austin Young  Cat fights and glamour: `Jungle Red' shar…
If your name was Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri, you might simplify to Chazz, too. Chazz Palminteri has made a career of playing thugs, gangsters, wiseguys and goombahs " maybe those are all th…
This year's Eugene O'Neill Festival in Danville will honor Paul Robeson, the legendary African-American actor who died in 1976 at age 77, The festival begins today (Thursday, Sept. 18) and c…
Opened Sept. 17, 2008 Â Rene Augesen is Esme and Manoel Felciano is Jan in a scene set at Prague's John Lennon wall in the American Conservatory Theater production of Rock 'n' Roll by Tom…
[PLEASE NOTE: Moby Dick! The Musical has been extended through Oct. 19] You can bet that Matthew Martin has the greatest gams on the Pequod. Martin, the San Francisco drag superstar, is havi…
The great American composer Leonard Bernstein would have been 90 this year, and the man who gave us the memorable music for West Side Story, Candide and other Broadway shows, among all his o…
Wicked, the hit musical positively rolling in green, had its world premiere at San Francisco's Curran Theatre before heading to Broadway 's Gershwin Theatre, where it has broken the house re…
 Alex Morf (left) is Viola disguised as Cesario and Stephen Barker Turner is Count Orsino in the California Shakespeare Theater's season-ending production of Twelfth Night. Photos by Kev…
Anthony Nemirovsky is the son and Jeri Lynn Cohen is his mother in the Tobias Wolff short story "Firelight," one of three stories in Word for Word's More Stories by Tobias Wolff at San Franc…
