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Take a first look at what Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is going to look like. The trailer only gives a slight hint that this is even a musical, but it's a tast…
A friend sent along a link to a hilarious (and useful) "kit" for creating and hurling Shakespearean insults. Check it out here. The creators are to be congratulated for fine scholarship and …
When she was born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland, she was called LaToya London, the name the country got to know when she emerged as someone to watch on Season 3 of "American Idol." …
I need to get the embarrassing details out there here at the start: The first versions of Beatles songs I ever grew to love were " gulp " on the double-album soundtrack of Sgt. Pepper's Lone…
Yes, it's true, Jersey Boys only just ended its nine-month run at San Francisco's Curran Theatre on Sunday, but today it's official: the show will be back for a "special holiday engagement" …
As Frankie Valli once sang, "Bye-bye, baby, baby bye-bye." It's closing weekend for Jersey Boys, the show the Bay Area has come to love in a big way. I say that with confidence having heard …
Dean Martin can be heard crooning in the background as Christine Andreas scurries around her kitchen, the phone tucked between shoulder and ear, as she conducts an interview and prepares for…
Apparently the leap from the Broadway stage to television takes a little longer than previously thought. If you planned this weekend around multiple screenings of Legally Blonde, the Musical…
Pranks are all well and good…as long as you're not the vicitm. Pgranstgroup seems to be a group that pulls elaborate pranks and, in true 21st-century fashion, posts them online for all to …
Opened Sept. 22, 2007 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center Broadway by the Bay hits musical target with Annie Get Your Gun There's simply no business like Irving Berlin's show business: g…
Opened Sept. 22, 2007 at the Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Cal Shakes ends season with royally pleasing Lear three stars Moving, power…
Opened Friday, Sept. 21, 2007 Shotgun's lyrical Bulrusher finds poetry in love and Boont Three stars Beauty and Boont to boot In Shotgun Players' Bulrusher, the characters most definitely ha…
Parents get dragged into the darndest things by their kids. Aw, c'mon, Dad, you know you want to do it. C'mon, Mom, it's really fun! For John Duggan (above, center), it didn't take too much …
Great actors wait for it " that defining moment when, as actors and as men, they are seasoned enough to tackle one of theater's biggest mountains: the title role of Shakespeare's King Lear. …
In case you missed it, here's the San Francisco (soon to be Chicago) cast of Jersey Boys performing on the Emmy Awards in a tribute to another set of Jersey boys " "The Sopranos."
California Shakespeare Theater has announced its 2008 summer season, and like this season, it's two Shakespeares and two non-Shakespeares. Pericles by William Shakespeare runs May 28 through…
Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, is now looking for the color of excellence. Last week at Oakland's Skyline High School, Walker kicked off a Bay Are…
Opened Sept. 15, 2007 at the Magic Theatre Magic Theatre heads into space with Pullman's Expedition 6 Three stars Fascinating Space may be the final frontier, but in theater, space is pretty…
Opened Sept. 13 at California Conservatory Theatre Swingin' sweethearts jazz up tuneful Pete 'n' Keely three stars Cute kitsch If the names Steve and Eydie mean anything to you, keep reading…
Little Daniel Radcliffe grew up before our eyes in the Harry Potter movies. Earlier this year, he did his utmost to break away from the "boy wizard" image by starring in a London production …
The Bay Area saw Legally Blonde, The Musical first. Now anyone with basic cable can see the Broadway hit when MTV broadcasts the show in its entirely on Sept. 29. Legally Blonde, the musical…
Opened Sept. 7, 2007 Impact scares up some horror in Sleepy three stars Dark, bumpy night Things go bump in the night during Impact Theatre's Sleepy, and those bumping things are often dead …
Playbill Online reports that the San Francisco cast of Jersey Boys will be performing on the Emmy Awards telecast, Sunday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. on Fox. Here's who you can expect to see on the …
In response to my interview with Sweeney Todd orchestrator Sarah Travis, I received an e-mail from Jenifer Tice, who had some interesting thoughts on the whole actors-as-musicians phenomenon…
Opened Sept. 5, 2007 Mirth, wisdom reside in Berkeley Rep's Heartbreak House Four stars (GBS=Great bloody show) What a good summer it's been for George Bernard Shaw. First California Shakesp…
