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Tickets for the launch of the Spring Awakening national tour go on sale Sunday, July 20. The tour of the eight-time Tony Award-winning rock musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater kicks off…
Continues through Sept. 20 at SF Playhouse Lauren English dons a brunette bob wig as Sally Bowles singing the title song in the SF Playhouse production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret. Photos by…
[show's dates have changed since original posting: Previews begin May 15, opening is May 20 and closing is June 28] Local playwright Amy Freed (above) will collaborate once again with direct…
Opened July 9, Curran Theatre The national tour of A Chorus Line features a cast that can dance, but the singing and acting is, to say the least, spotty. Photos by Paul Kolnik    …
Not only is Pixar's WALL-E an extraordinary movie " it's also, in its strange way, a paean to musical theater. You just don't head into a computer-animated film set in the 2100s to feature t…
There they are, the five finalists in MTV's "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods." They are, from left, Rhiannon, Bailey, Natalie, Lauren and Autumn. Someone please make th…
The national tour of the Tony Award-winning Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater musical Spring Awakening is growing ever closer. Performances begin Sept. 4 at San Francisco's Curran Theatre as part of…
Opened July 5, Bruns Memorial Amphitheater, Orinda Julie Eccles is Gertrude Chiltern and Stacy Ross is Laura Chevely in California Shakespeare Theater's production of An Ideal Husband by Osc…
Opened July 4 in Dolores Park The cast of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's Red State includes (from left) Lisa Hori-Garcia, Lizzie Calogero, Robert Ernst and Adrian C. Mejia. Photos by David …
NEWS FLASH: Show has been extended through Aug. 31!!! Â Brandon Finch (left) is Albert, a lonely gay teen about to find love with the help of his "fairy godmother" (Scott Phillips) in the…
EW.com reports that filmmaker Spike Lee is so taken with Stew's Broadway musical Passing Strange that he has raised money to film the show concert style. Here's the short news item: Spike Le…
 We have a tradition here at Theater Dogs, and that is to commemorate the Fourth of July by celebrating the greatest American art form: the musical. It was an interesting year on Broadwa…
 Elijah Alexander starred as Jack Tanner in California Shakespeare Theater's Man and Superman last summer. This year he's starring in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Photo by Kevin Berne…
So now viewers aren't the only ones hurling during MTV's "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods." We're down to six girls at the start of this week's episode, and by the end …
San Francisco's unique musical theater company, 42nd Street Moon, kicks off its 16th season with a celebration of Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Charles Strouse on Monday, June 30: You…
Before we get started, here's a taste of A Chorus Line with current cast member Mario Lopez and the cast on "Dancing with the Stars" If you think you're "uncommonly rare, very unique, peripa…
Andrea McArdle, famous for being a Broadway belter at age 12, swears she's going to write a book. "But I need to wait for a few people to go to a happier place," she says. I, for one, can't …
Variety reports that Andrew Lippa's musical version of The Addams Family is moving full steam ahead. In a closed reading in August, Gomez will be played by Nathan Lane (not often you think o…
I share the above photo not because I have a huge ego and want the world to know I had a few quality moments with Dame Julie Andrews, one of my favorite people on the planet. Wait " that's e…
The girls meet the dogs on MTV's "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods." Photo courtesy of MTV. It's Week 4 on MTV's "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods,"…
Tony Award-winning Minneapolis-based theater company Theatre de la Jeune Lune will cease to exist as we know it. And those of us in the Bay Area know it thanks to Jeune Lune's frequent colla…
As a critic at the Oakland Tribune and its sister newspapers, one of my greatest pleasures was instituting a teen theater critic internship, and it was my luck to launch the program with Les…
Opened June 21, 2008 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts The cast of TheatreWorks' Snapshots creates scenes from the life of a married couple set to recycled Stephen Schwartz…
Continues through July 26 at the Campbell Theatre, Martinez Michael Scott Wells and Alexandra Creighton scare off Candarian demons in Evil Dead: The Musical, a Willows Theatre production at …
Apparently audiences didn't take to the mix of show tunes and magic. Darren Romeo: The Voice of Magic, a Siegfried and Roy presentation, was scheduled to run through mid-July but will now pl…
