1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
News of Broadway just because: The revival of A Chorus Line will close Aug. 17 after 759 performances. The production, which had its premiere in San Francisco before heading to Broadway, rec…
One of the first things Darren Romeo wants you to know is that yes, his name is really Darren Romeo " Darren Robert Romeo, to be exact. And his first name is a tribute " with a slight spelli…
Audra McDonald is just so darn normal " not that outrageous beauty and talent are normal. But the point is, she could be a raging diva if she so chose. And maybe she is offstage (though I do…
California Shakespeare Theater production opened May 31, 2008, Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda The eight-member cast of California Shakespeare Theater's Pericles puts on a jousting pageant on sta…
Now here's a no-brainer: there's finally going to be a stage musical version of the classic 1977 Muppet made-for-TV musical "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas." Variety's Gordon Cox reports t…
Growing up, watching "The Carol Burnett Show" on Saturday nights was a highlight of the week. As far back as I can remember, I was a Saturday night TV junkie, with "The Mary Tyler Moore Show…
Steve Yockey's Octopus is a thrilling, somewhat frustrating theatrical experience.
This inaugural co-production of the Magic Theatre and Encore Theatre Company delivers a first-rate produc…
Some good news from box offices both national and local today. First the local. According to Berkeley Repertory Theatre, coming to the end of its 40th anniversary season, Nilaja Sun's No Chi…
The summer season is starting to, pardon the expression, heat up, though anyone who has been through a Bay Area summer knows that summer does not necessarily mean heat around here. " Lions a…
Got a little excited when I saw the Mamma Mia! trailer in a movie theater recently. With the success of Hairspray last year, it looks like summer is becoming the season for frothy stage musi…
This holiday weekend I saw some movies on the big screen (Indiana Jones and the blah blah Crystal Skull " exactly what you think it would be, enjoyable but nothing more; Iron Man, which made…
At The Marsh in San Francisco through June 29 Â Ann Randolph wrote and stars in Squeeze Box at The Marsh. The solo show is about her loss and rediscovery of faith. Superb solo show squeez…
Here's some good news for those of us shut out of the City Arts & Lectures event at which former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich (aka "The Butcher of Broadway") interviewed Step…
Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images / Jan. 9, 2008 It's true! Katie Holmes isn't just a pretty, skinny Victoria Beckham-wannabe clothes horse; nor is she simply a trophy wife capable of possibl…
A Shotgun Players production at the Ashby Stage, Berkeley, through June 22 Jason Craig, who also wrote the show, tackles the title role in Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, a Shotgun Pla…
Meet Cubby Bernstein, the best damn Tony campaign guy around. He's a about 13 years old (but has seemingly been around forever), and he's the closest thing the Broadway community has to a vi…
We still don't know what's in store for the new SHN/Best of Broadway season (announcement to be made soon). But news out of New York is that there are all kinds of tours heading out on the r…
I have found the first Theater Dogs beach book of the summer. I loved Marc Acito's first novel, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater because it was…
It's worth reporting SF Playhouse's 2008-09 season just for the name of the second show of the season. Check it out: Shining City by Conor McPherson (Oct. 1-Nov. 22) " Wonderful Irish playwr…
Two wonderful actors, formerly of the Bay Area, are having some good days in the New York theater world. We're sorry they're not having good theater days in the Bay Area, but we wish them we…
Every year, the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon present $10,000 scholarships to three talented high school seniors from the Bay Area. Jo Schuman Silver, producer of BBB, an…
Laugh for a worthy cause on Wednesday, June 11 when The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation presents COMEDY TONIGHT! , an evening of "outrageous comedy & decadent divas." Which begs the quest…
The boys of Jersey Boys in Las Vegas: from left: Erich Bergen, Rick Faugno, Jeremy Kushnier and Jeff Leibow in the production at the Palazzo. Photo by Joan Marcus. Since leaving my illustrio…
Anika Noni Rose and Terrence Howard in the Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Photo by the New York Times Interesting article in Variety about the recent Broadway production of Te…
News from the Rialto: "American Idol" winner (Season 5) Taylor Hicks is going to fly onto Broadway as Teen Angel in the revival of Grease (you know, the one you didn't want but came with a r…
