1,373 stories by "Chad Jones"
Theater Dogs is off to the desert. I'll be in Las Vegas for a week with the American Theatre Critics Association conference seeing all the shows (Spamalot, Phantom and all the Cirque du Sole…
Not for the squeamish or the easily offended.
ACT's Imaginary Invalid suffers comedy ills Two stars Broken funny bone There was abundant laughter in the house when American Conservatory Theater opened a new adaptation of Moliere's The I…
The musical gods are smiling on the Bay Area. It was announced today that the national tour of Spring Awakening " winner of eight 2007 Tony Awards including best musical " will indeed launch…
Opened June 9, Traveling Jewish Theater Sounds dazzle in Crowded Fire's odd, fascinating Anna Bella Eema three stars Weirdly wonderful Crowded Fire Theatre Company, now in its 10th year of p…
They've shaken up All Shook Up, the new juke-box musical that spins a new story out of old Elvis Presley songs. The show began performances on Broadway in March 2005 and closed seven months …
Now that the Tony Awards are behind us, you don't need to go through withdrawal. You can order your very own Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS official Tony T-shirt, which features the signa…
A salute to the big musical winners from Sunday's Tony Awards: (from left) Frank Langella, best actor for Frost/Nixon, Christine Ebersole, best actress for Grey Gardens, Julie White, best ac…
(all photos Associated Press) For Spring Awakening fans such as myself, Sunday night's Tony Awards was one of the most exciting in years. Granted, the "medley" of songs performed by the exub…
(all photos Associated Press) "Musical theater rocks," so said Duncan Sheik with a sly smile and a twinkle in his award-drunk eyes during Sunday's Tony Awards. Here's Sheik on the red carpet…
First, to clarify a few things: in another era, Marin Mazzie would be the biggest kind of Broadway star (think Ethel Merman or Carol Channing) and composers would be falling all over themsel…
Stunts, food highlight ZinZanni's new Royale Invitation three stars Still fun, still chaotic The first time I saw Teatro ZinZanni's Love, Chaos and Dinner, I left with a pounding headache an…
Looking back, Mike Daisey calls "the incident" "chilling and dorky." The monologist, who has brought his 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com and The Ugly American to Berkeley Repertory The…
Earlier this week I wrote a feature story about Disney Theatrical Productions president (and San Mateo native) Thomas Schumacher. You can read the story here. For the blog, I wanted to take …
Opened June 4, 2007, Intersection for the Arts Hagedorn finds dramatic heat in `Desert' comedy three stars Fun, unfocused Fe looks into the desert surrounding her multi-million-dollar home a…
Steven Sater is heading into Sunday's Tony Awards ceremony with two nominations of his own and 11 total for his show, Spring Awakening. Sater is nominated as lyricist, along with composer Du…
As we head toward the Tony Awards telecast on Sunday, June 10, I will be offering interviews with folks from my favorite musical of the season, Spring Awakening. Up first, composer Duncan Sh…
opened June 2, 2007, Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda Villainy rules in Cal Shakes' masterful Richard III three [1/2] stars A Richard to remember This smart, funny man can't be all bad, can he? Wh…
Applause, applause to Jeremy Aufderheide, the Web master behind BlueGobo.com, an extraordinary Web site featuring an enormous collection of Broadway-musical video clips stretching back to th…
King Richard III is more than mean. He woos a grieving widow whose husband he has killed himself. He orders the murders of two child princes in the Tower of London. He kills his wife so he c…
Baseball drama aims for more than just naked truth three stars Play ball! It's a shame that Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out is known as "the naked baseball play." Sure, there's more male nud…
I have to admit that last week's "contretemps," as Barbara Walters put it, between Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck left me a little sad. I have TiVo'd "The View" pretty much every d…
OK, people, time to start planning those Tony Award viewing parties for Sunday, June 10 on CBS. We've got to get those dismal ratings up, so if you're having people over, make sure they're s…
Happy Memorial Day weekend, Dogs. A family member in Reno tipped me off to the following column by Reno-Gazette Journal columnist Siobhan McAndrew that ran in today's paper. The gist of it i…
The crowd in the funeral parlor was practically giddy. One man, in a mourning veil, no less, let loose with the fake tears and proclaimed between phony sobs: "Kiki! You were a flaming megast…
