1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
This month, if you're looking for good Sex, you may need to head for Berkeley. This week, the Aurora Theatre Company opens Mae West's 1926 show Sex starring Delia MacDougall as Margy LaMont,…
Sometimes you do everything you can do to be an organized person. Then the universe has other plans. Take, for instance, Stephen Flaherty, the composer behind such Broadway musicals as Ragti…
Michael Tubbs, a 12th grader at Franklin High School in Sacramento County, is the winner of the essay contest sponsored by the musical production of The Color Purple now at the Orpheum Theat…
I'm happy not to be a drunk 20something, stumbling through life in oblivion. I fully realize not all 20somethings are suffering from inebriated idiocy, but when I went to see Tammy Grimes at…
Set designer Daniel Ostling has set sail with director Mary Zimmerman once again. The two Chicago-based artists have a long history working together at Zimmerman's artistic home, the Looking…
Elizabeth McKoy(above left) and Kimberly Dooley (above right) are creating a children's theater, and they know what they're doing. In addition to theatrical qualifications, the two women hav…
ACT's `Rainmaker' shakes, rattles and pours Two ½ stars Dusty and dreamy You've got to hand it to American Conservatory Theater. When reviving a musty old relic like N. Richard Nash's 195…
Last night I attended a screening of Disney's big holiday movie, Enchanted, and I have to say, I was pretty charmed by the notion of a classic Disney animated feature turned on its head and …
Frequent Theater Dogs commenter Tracy recommends the somewhat controversial CBS series "Kid Nation." You'd think, as an elementary school teacher, her days would be full enough of kid nation…
Hey, Theater Dogs " it's time to check in with the hip, the hot, the happening in the world of theater and beoynd. I figure that a common-denominator blog such as this one, where readers (an…
Campo Santo, Denis Johnson go a little crazy in Iowa Three and 1/2 stars Comic, dramatic depth charge There's a lot of wonderful weirdness in Denis Johnson's Des Moines. The play had its bri…
Admit it. You're wondering what it was like. Cheesy? Silly? Stultifying? Genius? Yes, yes, not so much and no. We're talking, of course, about Disney's High School Musical: The Ice Tour, whi…
Opened Oct. 17, 2007 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Thrust Stage Galati translates Murakami stories to the stage Three stars Stirred, not shaken We're lucky to live in the Bay Area for many…
Campo Santo, the small theater company with major literary impact, is not doing a traditional season. Sean San Jose, Campo Santo founder, and Deborah Cullinan, executive director of Intersec…
Claymates rejoice while the rest of us ponder why Clay Aiken ever stuck his fingers in Kelly Ripa's mouth (OK, he covered her mouth with his hand, but like she said at the time, she didn't k…
On Saturday at San Francisco's El Rio bar, where a giant cut-out of Carmen Miranda looks down on the back courtyard, Crowded Fire Theatre Company held a festive fundraising chili cook-off. H…
Opened Oct. 12, 2007 at the Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco Purple musical finally finds its voice Three stars: Lumpy, ultimately beautiful bundle Those first few moments of the overture are …
One of the most interesting documentaries of the year had nothing to do with health care or Iraq. ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway sort of slipped in and out of theaters without a whole lo…
There's a definite literary bent " no ice rinks or Disney TV musicals here " to director Frank Galati's work. Two of his best-known stage adaptations began life as books: The Grapes of Wrath…
Hey, Theater Dogs. I know the following isn't theater related, but I just wanted to share my experience with an extraordinary performer… Sweet dreams are made of Annie Lennox. Quirky, insp…
So many things are good on ice _ lemonade, oysters, the Sharks _ but High School Musical on Ice? Really? Ice Capades and Holiday on Ice, sure. But a made-for-TV movie about chipper high scho…
Upcoming theater fundraisers are going to let you fire it up and throw 'em down. First up, this Saturday (Oct. 13), Crowded Fire Theatre Company is hosting a Chili Cookoff with foolsFury, Im…
MTV.com has a bunch of 30-second clips from the upcoming broadcast of Broadway's Legally Blonde, The Musical. You can see "Omigod You Guys," "What You Want" (complete with plug for Jet Blue)…
After five seasons at the helm of San Francisco's Magic Theatre, artistic director Chris Smith will leave his position at the end of the 2007-2008 season. A search commtittee will begin a na…
In a way, Willy Loman led Aaron Davidman to Golda Meir. Davidman, the artistic director of San Francisco's Traveling Jewish Theatre, had directed a production of Death of a Salesman that, tr…
