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Great news for theater dogs who also love some good TV. The Canadian-import series "Slings and Arrows" arrives for a third season on Sunday (Feb. 18) on the Sundance Channel. If the first tw…
(opened Feb. 12, 2007) Jackson, actors commit American $uicide at Thick House three stars Zesty satire If "American Idol" ended each episode with a bullet instead of wild applause, some of u…
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers is the 2006 winner of the Will Glickman Playwrights Award. The annual award " given to the author of the best play to make its world premiere in the B…
Earlier this month, I sat down with the stars of San Francisco's Jersey Boys, the quartet driving audiences into a frenzy every night as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. You can read the …
The Aurora Theatre Company's The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter has just been extended through March 11 in Berkeley. That's good news for Pinter fans. It also gives us more time to figure o…
Hot on the heels of their latest show (Big Death & Little Death, see below), Crowded Fire Theater Company has announced the departure of founding artistic director Rebecca Novick. Erin G…
(opened Feb. 14, 2007) ACT's hip, sassy `Hedda' starts strong, fades quickly two stars Too cute 'n' casual Theater, or so they say, is all about the communal experience. We breathe the same …
(Opened Feb. 10, 2007) Magic whips up some erotica in Bilodeau's Pleasure & Pain Three stars More pleasure than pain Sexual heat is too often absent from the stage, especially when the s…
(opened Feb. 10, 2007) Crowded Fire blazes forth with bleak, funny Death three stars Apocalypse soon When the first scene of a play involves dead puppies, you can be sure you're not headed i…
Now this is what you call bad television. "Grease: You're the One That I Want" is two hours of "reality" television at its worst. I know television networks have no shame, but NBC can't be p…
TheatreFirst stirs up Middle East drama in compelling Nathan the Wise three 1/2 stars Wise and wonderful (opened Feb. 9, 2007) At the close of Friday's opening-night performance of Nathan th…
For those of you unable to make it to the Golden Gate Theatre for the remaining two weeks of Legally Blonde, The Musical's out-of-town, pre-Broadway tryout, the good folks at Broadway.com of…
Merry musical `Legally Blonde' dazzles and delights 3 1/2 stars Bright, shiny `Blonde' (opened Feb. 6, 2007; photos by Paul Kolnik) The opening number from Legally Blonde, The Musical is, li…
It's always good news when Danny Hoch announces his return to the Bay Area. The solo performer behind Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop (which had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theat…
Jane Austen, Thronton Wilder, Tony Kushner and Golda Meir will all be there…sort of. Robert Kelley, the founding artistic director of Mountain View's TheatreWorks has just announced his co…
The stage isn't the only place for theater these days. And as a wise man named Peter Allen once said, "Everything old is new again." It seems radio has been reborn in the form of podcasts, a…
(opened Feb. 1, 2007) Actors sizzle, plot fizzles in Aurora's `Birthday Party' two and 1/2 stars A well-made muddle There's an old saw about a tree falling in the woods, and if there's no on…
Here's some interesting local theater news " some high-powered casting, a Skywalker-y night out and, be still my heart, the return of Kiki & Herb: Carl Lumbly, last seen on TV's "Alias,"…
American Conservatory Theater's first-ever cast album _ for last year's superb Happy End by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill _ is released Tuesday (Jan.30) on the Ghostlight Records label. The …
Julia Mitchell (left) is Mona, Eleanor Mason Reinholdt (center) is Sissy and Candice M. Milan is the mysterious Joanne in California Conservatory Theatre's production of Come Back to the 5 &…
Laura Bell Bundy (in pink, naturally) as law student Elle Woods faces off with a law professor (Michael Rupert), much to the delight of fellow student played by Kate Shindle (left) in Legall…
We have confirmation that John Doyle's revival of Sweeney Todd, the one in which the 10 actors also play all the instruments, will indeed open the American Conservatory Theater season on Aug…
In this week's Jones for Theater column, I talked with Michael Lerner, (left, with fellow film director Ludi Boeken) son of famed lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady, Briga…
"Grease: You're the One That I Want" is the worst kind of "reality" TV tripe. So why am I watching it and sort of looking forward to Sunday's TWO-HOUR voting show? From the outset, I wasn't …
In his most recent e-mail newsletter, Mike Daisey, who was recently profiled in the New York Times, dropped a little nugget of information: Writes Daisey: "If you're reading this in the Bay …
