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Leave it to the country's longest-running musical revue "34 years and counting " to nail the political atmosphere. Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, always updating characters and songs …
Manoel Felciano stars in the ACT production of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. Photo by Ashley Forette Photography Manoel Felciano, a San Francisco native, had to play Broadway before he could…
Kyle Riabko has two jobs: he's starring as Melchior in the national tour of Spring Awakening, now at San Francisco's Curran Theatre through Oct. 12. He's also a rising Canadian pop star who …
As the California Shakespeare Theater heads into its final show of the season (Twelfth Night), artistic director Jonathan Moscone has announced next summer's line-up. The season will mark Mo…
And suddenly, Alex Morf was everywhere. Not exactly, but it sure seemed that there was the Bay Area theater scene without Alex Morf, and then with him " in a big way. The wrestler from rural…
You've gotta see this hilarious spoof of MTV's terrible "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for the Next Elle Woods." It's related to In the Heights, and it's called "Legally Brown: The …
Opened Sept. 7, 2008 at the Curran Theatre, San Francisco  Kyle Riabko and Christy Altomare are Melchior and Wendla, the doomed lovers in Spring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning musical…
East Bay publicist Robert Rezak shares the following item with us from the current production of Will Rogers Follies: He's appeared in 22 productions of The Will Rogers Follies, a Life in Re…
Colman Domingo revisits his West Philadelphia, soul music-infused childhood in the solo show A Boy and His Soul at San Francisco's Thick House. Photos by Rick Martin. Domingo's soulful `Boy'…
The cast of Lauren Yee's Ching Chong Chinaman at Impact Theatre includes (from left) Dennis Yen, Arthur Keng, Sung Min Park, Cindy Im and Lisa Kang. Photos by Cheshire Isaacs Impact gets irr…
For the Tony Award-winning composing team of Steven Sater (book and lyrics, above left) and Duncan Sheik (music), Spring fever may be abating. The duo, along with director Michael Mayer, wor…
The cast of the Aurora Theatre Company's The Best Man by Gore Vidal includes (from left) Tim Kniffen, Deb Fink, Charles Shaw Robinson, Michael Patrick Gaffney, and Michael Cassidy. Photos by…
Seems like just yesterday that Crowded Fire Theatre Company announced the departure of founding artistic director Rebecca Novick and the ascension of co-artistic directors (and husband-and-w…
Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of Spring Awakening, remembers people looking at his show and saying things like: "You can't be unconventional." "That's choreography?" "This i…
Opened Sept. 3, 2008 " now extended through Oct. 19 Â Jahmela Biggs (left) is Ms. Robbins a teacher who has problems with the school newspaper and Ben Freeman is Avi, the new editor of th…
Members of the Spring Awakening creative team will take part in a free "In Conversation" onstage event from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7 at the Curran Theatre, 445 Geary St., San Francisco. T…
If the name Tom Hulce sounds familiar, it's probably not because he's one of the Tony Award-winning producers of the musical Spring Awakening. He rings that familiarity bell because he has o…
Thessaly Lerner stars in The Ukulady's Pony Show, part of the 17th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival. Photo by Lennon  And here Edinburgh, Scotland thinks it's got a great fringe fest…
Oakland's TheatreFirst, the intrepid troupe led by founding artistic director Clive Chafer that has managed some fantastic shows in the face of an impossibly nomadic existence, is moving int…
You know you've achieved a certain level of success when you're on line, waiting to get into an exclusive magazine party, and Spike Lee sticks his head out the door, sees you waiting and imm…
A quick Labor Day trip to New York allowed me a little long overdue catching up on some Broadway shows. I had three slots available, and I filled them all with musicals. Yes, I could have se…
Writing about his high school experience proved therapeutic for playwright Itamar Moses, a Berkeley native whose Yellowjackets has its world premiere this week at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.…
Let's go watch a Chazz Palminteri movie … with Chazz Palminteri! While the venerable movie and stage actor is in town with his one-man show, A Bronx Tale (Sept. 23-Oct. 19 at the Golden Ga…
Duncan Sheik (left) and Steven Sater say they hope to open their new musical, The Nightingale, at American Conservatory Theater. Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Could San Francisco be the…
We here at TheaterDogs are about to kick into high gear with Spring Awakening, which officially kicks off its national tour (after a "preview" run in San Diego) Sept. 4 (official opening nig…
