1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
Ill wind, you're blowing me no good. Actually, the winds are favorable. If you've ever heard the original London cast album of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's Whistle Down the Wind, y…
Mark McKinney (above right) spent last Saturday night onstage at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Theatre with his fellow Kids in the Hall: Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald and…
After a career of movies (The Sure Thing, Spaceballs) and TV (Melrose Place, One Tree Hill), Daphne Zuniga was ready to go back where it all started: to the theater. The Berkeley native was …
SHN/Best of Broadway has announced that a new Irish musical will make its U.S. debut in San Francisco this summer. Ha'penny Bridge is a love story set against, according to press materials, …
With that nasty kerfuffle involving the stagehands and the dark Broadway theaters well behind us, it's time to take a look at what's going on in New York, where the play is really the thing.…
Tings certainly do happen when you're Dan Hoyle. The young performer, both author and performer of Tings Dey Happen, is this year's winner of the Will Glickman Playwright Award, which brings…
Opened Jan. 19, 2007, Magic Theatre Knights, princesses, justice battle in Magic's bold Territories three 1/2 stars (Riveting, re-imagined history) History is full of incredible, intelligent…
Lucy Simon and I have something interesting in common. We both saw our first Broadway shows at the St. James Theatre. Hers was Carousel. Mine was The Secret Garden, which just happens to hav…
Opened Jan. 16 on Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Thrust Stage Hoch's solo artistry takes `Over' Three stars Brilliance and brio Let there be no question about Danny Hoch's genius. To throw aro…
opened Jan. 13, 2007 at Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco Wacky `Dead Mother' springs to vibrant life three 1/2 stars Shirley not to be missed Dead Mother, contrary to its title, is qu…
Opened Jan. 9, 2008, American Conservatory Theater Mamet plows into Hollywood brio with `Speed' Three ½ stars Hot he-man hurly-burly David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow may be notorious for allo…
It's been 10 years since Danny Hoch jolted the Bay Area theater scene with Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop, his dynamic solo show at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Since then, he has worked dili…
American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff didn't mince words when introducing playwright Tom Stoppard Saturday morning at a Koret Visiting Artist Series event. She called…
You knew Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Cats, right? Well, did you know he also wrote a dog? In the Lloyd Webber canon, only By Jeeves was more critically pummeled than Whistle Down the Wind, a c…
There are some theater treats heading our way in 2008. Here's a mere sampling. The show I'm most excited about also seems the furthest away. The national tour of the Tony Award-winning music…
I've already offered up my Top 10 list of 2007's best Bay Area theater (see it here). That's all well and good, but there was way too much good stuff in 2007 to contain in a polite numbered …
With the new year come changes. On New Year's Eve, Bay Area cabaret veteran Wesla Whitfield wil ring in 2008 with fans and revelers at San Francisco's Empire Plush Room. She's in the midst o…
I can always tell whether a theater year has been good or not so good when I sit down to hammer out my Top 10 list. If I can summon five or more shows simply from memory, it's a good … Con…
Michael Feinstein is one of the most in-demand crooners in the land. If people want sophistication, elegance and abundant love and knowledge of the Great American Songbook, they immediately …
Dramatic Shaker Chair unseats expectations three stars Stirring Marion loves her new chair. It's a beautiful wood straight back with woven seats. It's a copy of a Shaker chair, and though sh…
Ask most singers and they'll tell you: New Year's Eve is not their favorite night for a gig. Audience members are overexcited, demanding and, most often, drunk off their gourds. "If your goa…
For a third time, American Conservatory Theater is asking us to think and write like David Mamet. Hot @#*$in' dog. In conjunction with its upcoming production of Mamet's Hollywood-lambasting…
The movies have not been all that kind to Stephen Sondheim. His early Broadway hits, for which he supplied lyrics only, West Side Story and Gypsy, became classic studio musicals (with West S…
Who but Rufus Wainwright could be this audacious? The 34-year-old singer/songwriter, who has always done pretty much exactly what he pleased. He makes the kind of intelligent, beautiful (som…
Sure Adam Bock misses his friends in the Bay Area. But the Canadian playwright, who moved from San Francisco to New York about five years ago, really misses the food. "Food in San Francisco …
