1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
Brooklynn Pulver (above center) is Tracy Turnblad in the touring production of Hairspray. Photo by Phil Martin Last summer, it was yet another musical breathing new life into the revival of …
Opened April 2, 2008 at the Post Street Theatre, San Francisco Connolly unbound: Comedy sets Scot free 3 1/2 stars " Big, bulky laughs Billy Connolly must tell you something. He simply must.…
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has announced that Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder is the winner of its 2008 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award…
Loretta Greco, whom Bay Area audiences know mainly from her work with American Conservatory Theater, has been named as the new artistic director of the Magic Theatre. She replaces Chris Smit…
Yes, Katie Holmes, late of Dawson's Creek, she of the couch-jumping husband, the ever-changing cute hairdos and the impossibly adorable Suri parentage, is being rumored to be heading to Broa…
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations to receive the 2008 Harold and Mimi Steinberg /American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award…
The arrival of a new Adam Bock play is always an event. Even though the Canadian playwright decided to forgo the pleasures of life in the Bay Area for the rigors of a New York writer's exist…
Saw a fantastic documentary last night that I highly recommend: Word and Music by Jerry Herman. It was on PBS for about a second, but it's available via PBS Home Video. Clearly this was a la…
Opened March 26, 2008 at American Conservatory Theater The town's mayor (Graham Beckel, seated) succumbs to a sneezing fit while accepting the congratulations of the town council (from left:…
This isn't a theater item, but I wanted to share with you a superb concert experience I had Tuesday night at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, where k.d. lang brought her Watershed tour promo…
Woodminster Summer Musicals, the annual theatrical tradition of musicals under the stars, will produce three shows this summer at the Woodminster Amphitheater in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Par…
There's some juicy-good stuff in American Conservatory Theater's newly announced 2008-09 season. Here's the rundown: Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard (Sept. 11-Oct. 12) " Surprising no one, esp…
Woo hoo! I love the smell of Tuna in the theater! Two pieces of good news here. The first is that Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard have written a fourth Greater Tuna show: Tuna Does …
Opened March 22, 2008, SF Playhouse Stacy Ross and Louis Parnell try a new form of barroom therapy in Coronado. Photos by Zabrina Tipton Lehane's noirish thriller offers pulpy delights three…
Opened March 21, 2008, Ashby Playhouse, Berkeley Trish Mulholland as Mrs. Warren, Emily Jordan as Vivie. Photos by Howard Gerstein Shotgun Players do bang up work on Shaw's Profession three …
Aurora Theatre Company artistic director Tom Ross has announced his company's 17th season, opening with what is being touted as an "American Trilogy," presenting three views of the U.S. at d…
Now this, dear boy, is exciting. A heretofore "lost" Noel Coward play is having its U.S premiere courtesy of San Francisco's Thrillpeddlers, the group that specializes in Grand Guignol theat…
Opened March 19, 2008, Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Thrust Stage Thomas Jay Ryan, Marguerite Stimpson and Danny Wolohan. Photos by Kevin Berne Laughing through the tragic darkness three star…
Hot on the heels of their recent Bay Area appearance as honorees at the San Francisco SketchFest, Canada's squirrelly boys of comedy, The Kids in the Hall, have announced a new tour, and the…
We've seen San Francisco's Best of Broadway announcing shows in recent weeks, then canceling them. The Wiz disappeared, then Whistle Down the Wind, then the new Irish musical Ha'penny Bridge…
Opened March 10, 2008 at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco New musical finds lyricism in true crime three stars Enigmatic Box About four years ago, playwright Octavio Solis and compos…
Opened March 11, 2008 at the Marines Memorial Theatre, San Francisco Judy! Judy! Judy! Stand-up act evolves into play Four Stars " Mama mia! Judy Gold has mother issues. And that's a good th…
One of my favorite Bay Area actors, Danny Wolohan, is moving on. Wolohan was voted by American Theatre magazine as one of the country's seven actors "worth traveling to see," and I wholehear…
Below you'll find the winners of the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. In lieu of a gala this year, winners will attend a cocktail party and receive their awards. DRAMA (In theaters with m…
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