1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
Opened June 19, 2008 at the Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley  Anne Darragh (left) is an Episcopalian minister and Chad Deverman is her writing assistant in Keith Bunin's The Busy World I…
VasantasenaÌ„ (Miriam A. Laube) paints a portrait of her lover, ChaÌ„rudatta (Cristofer Jean) in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of The Clay Cart. Photo by David Cooper. Her…
A Tony Award-winner for Wicked (and we all know it isn't easy being green), Idina Menzel is bringing her concert tour to the Bay Area. The former Rent star, who just released a major label a…
Opened June 18, 2008 at the Curran Theatre Jaston Williams (left) is Tasty Kreme waitress Helen Bedd and Joe Sears is her co-worker and compatriot Inita Goodwin in Tuna Does Vegas, the fourt…
In terms of Broadway composers, Stephen Schwartz is up there with Sondheim and Lloyd Webber as one of the latter-day saviors of modern musical theater. From his first show, Godspell, right u…
Why Spencer Day isn't a big star is beyond me. The 29-year-old crooner, who splits his time between San Francisco, New York and the road, has been plying his trade for almost 10 years now. H…
Last week I spent four glorious days in Ashland, Ore., covering the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the San Francisco Chronicle. The first few stories are online now, and conveniently, I pro…
MTV Music Videos MTV Shows Entertainment News Oh, the sweet, sweet torture of this ridiculous "Blonde" experiment. Yes, it's Week 3 of "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods,…
This is just too funny not to share. Those good, warped kids at The Onion have put together this news item about the High School Tony Awards. High School Tony Awards Honor Nation's Biggest D…
Before we get to the news, here's a clip from the Tony Awards broadcast featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning best musical In the Heights. OK. Now the news. Like gas prices, the …
Sure the Bay Area is brimming with homegrown theatrical talent. But there's always room for a few visitors. Now here's something intriguing: a British theater company called 19;29 is setting…
For the last four days I've been in Ashland, Ore., reviewing shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the San Francisco Chronicle (more on that later), and while the Tonys were on Sunday…
The 2008-09 season hasn't even begun and already changes are afoot. Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced yesterday that it will postpone David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face, which was to have co…
Opened June 11, 2008 at American Conservatory Theater  Michael Hayden and René Augesen play a brother and sister with more than familial affection for one another in ACT's production of…
This Sunday, the Tony Awards will be handed out. Here's what you need to know (and get busy organizing your Tony party " we've got to get those dismal ratings out of the basement so CBS will…
NOW CLOSING JUNE 29 Musical theater turns magical " somewhat«« ½ Flash, bang, wallop Darren Romeo is many things over the course of his 90-minute magic and music show with the cumbe…
Megan Hilty (left) as Glinda and Eden Espinosa as Elphaba from the original LA company of Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus Old friends, new winners mark 30th anniversary season Carole Shorenstei…
"Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods," Episode 2 (photo courtesy of MTV) Here's the problem with the second episode of this Broadway-bedazzled reality show: NO SETH RUDETSKY. Our girls…
After San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took his foot out of his mouth (he made an inappropriate comment about gay marriage), and after former SF Mayor Willie Brown introduced a film clip, an…
So much information to digest. First comes news that Annie Proulx's extraordinary short story, "Brokeback Mountain," which was turned into a less extraordinary but admirable film, is now bec…
Joe Sears is new character Shot and Jaston Williams is Vera Carp in Tuna Does Vegas, the latest in what is now the Tuna Quartet, at San Francisco's Curran Theatre. Photos by Brenda Ladd. My …
San Francisco Chronicle theater writer Robert Hurwitt has an excellent story in today's paper about the ongoing struggles of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the Bay Area's 27-year-old Africa…
Continues through June 14 at the Climate Theater, San Francisco Group leader Ryan Eggensperger goes deep into the brain's quadrants in the environmental theater experience The Group at San F…
Actor Megan Cavanagh has the kind of living arrangement you might see on a TV sitcom " in fact, you should see it on a TV sitcom. Every time she tells someone about her house and her family,…
You probably know Roger Rees from his TV work " Robin Colcord on "Cheers," the British ambassador on "The West Wing" and the doctor with a thing for Christina Yang on "Grey's Anatomy." But i…
