Sunday, October 2, 2016
I'm going to spoil something right off the bat about Theresa Rebeck's fantastic new play Seared now receiving its world premiere from San Francisco Playhouse: there is no conventional romanc…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:16PMSaturday, October 1, 2016
Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s It Can’t Happen Here is a nightmare on so many levels, and that’s mostly a good thing in the world-premiere adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel.
Th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:44PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
The coolness of Lena Hall and Darren Criss relates directly to the city of their birth. The two performers, one a Tony Award-winning Broadway star and the other a former object of "Glee" aff…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:24PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
While Secretary Clinton and The Orange Bloviator were duking it out at the first presidential debate and helping the populace decide the fate of this troubled nation, Crowded Fire Theater wa…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:27PMThursday, September 22, 2016
What will happen when Queen Elizabeth, Great Britain's longest reigning queen, leaves the throne? In a hefty helping of royal speculation, playwright Mike Bartlett takes on that question, bu…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:39PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
A towering giant has fallen. Edward Albee has died at 88.
A playwright who forged his own way and wielded his distinctive voice with lacerating skill, Albee helped define theater as we know…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:39PMThursday, September 15, 2016
Watching Christopher Chen's new play Caught in its sublime Shotgun Players production is, in a word, disorienting, and that's a good thing. Even clever folk who think they have it all figure…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:38PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
On August 1, 2006, a little theater blog called Theater Dogs (thank you, Paul Rudnick for the name and for the story behind the name) came into being, and 10 years later, here we are.
As th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:20PMFriday, March 25, 2016
Watching a play like Sarah Treem's The How and the Why makes me feel smarter – fractionally but still. To prove my point, I'm going to quote Ernst Mayr, an evolutionary biologist with whom…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:07PMThursday, March 24, 2016
Colossal at San Francisco Playhouse is a (foot)balls-out theatrical experience that manages to provoke thought and elicit feeling all the while it dazzles with its aggressive stagecraft.
An…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:34PMThursday, March 17, 2016
The topic is: things that have happened. That broad, yet somehow quite specific, statement comes from a character in Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses now on stage at American Conservatory Th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:32PMSunday, March 6, 2016
In the last couple of years, San Francisco went from no Emily Skinner to new and improved now with 200 percent more Emily Skinner. The Tony-nominated actor (Side Show) was suddenly making re…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:41PMSunday, February 28, 2016
There is nothing more comforting than a Word for Word production. This extraordinary company's rich stage adaptations of short fiction for the stage can be thrilling, inventive, moving, inci…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:25PMSaturday, February 27, 2016
Say this for Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Macbeth now on stage at the Roda Theatre: it stars an Oscar winner, a Tony Winner and an Emmy winner. And she's doing some interesting things with L…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:44PMThursday, February 25, 2016
Oh, help. Someone put Baby in a corner and she can't get out! The corner is actually the stage of the Golden Gate Theatre, where, as part of the SHN season, she is appearing in Dirty Dancing…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:32PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
There's something so odd, so wonderfully odd about Dipika Guha's Mechanics of Love, a world-premiere comedy from Crowded Fire Theater. There's a decidedly offbeat rhythm to this delightful o…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:48PMSunday, February 21, 2016
Impact Theatre has been known for its Shakespeare reboots, sometimes fierce, sometimes wholly inspired, always intelligent and interesting. Now in its valedictory lap before going on hiatus,…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:30PMFriday, February 19, 2016
The Unfortunates is a strange, antic show with some absolutely glorious music. Now at American Conservatory Theater's Strand Theater, the show is part folklore, part fever dream, part comic …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:45PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
Setting aside taxes for the moment, there are two certainties in life: we will eat food (and perhaps have a complicated relationship with food) and we will die (and perhaps have a complicate…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:04PMFriday, February 5, 2016
There's a profoundly creepy core to Little Erik the new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1894 Little Eyolf by Mark Jackson, one of the Bay Area's foremost theater artists. That creepiness is the…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:27PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
San Francisco native Lauren Yee has won the 2015 Glickman Award for the best play to have its world premiere in the Bay Area. She won for in a word, a drama about the aftermath of a child go…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:06PMMonday, January 25, 2016
There aren't that many plays with the power to totally creep you out and entertain you mightily. Such is the power of Jennifer Haley's The Nether at San Francisco Playhouse in a production t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:58PMFriday, January 22, 2016
Taylor Mac emerges, godlike, from the mezzanine, resplendent in a sparkling headdress and gown, and from the stage of the Curran Theatre, where the audience is seated, it looks like the lowe…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:51PMThursday, January 21, 2016
John Douglas Thompson is tall and handsome, which is to say, he looks nothing like Louis Armstrong. But so deft is Thompson's performance as the legendary trumpeter in Terry Teachout's capti…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:05PMTuesday, December 22, 2015
One of the best things about the year-end exercise to round up favorite theatergoing memories of the preceding year is that it can be such a powerful reminder of how much good theater we hav…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:32PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Even though Agatha Christie's most famous, play The Mousetrap, is the longest-running show of any kind in the world (the London production is in its 64th year, with more than 25,000 performa…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:31PMThursday, December 10, 2015
I remember seeing A Christmas Story in the movie theater in 1983 (I was in high school), and since then, I've probably seen it 50 times or so (in whole or in part) on TV. It helps that TBS h…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:25PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
Just when you thought there was not a breath of life left in the seasonal cash cow known as A Christmas Carol, along comes Scrooge in Love! to remind us that there's still a lot of life and …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:55PMFriday, December 4, 2015
Essentially, Notes of a Native Son is a rock show with a literary degree. Ini the words of Stew, the composer (with Heidi Rodewald), this 90-minute show is "not a musical nor a play with mus…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:50PMThursday, December 3, 2015
You really do root for the murderer in the delightful A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder. That may seem an insensitive scene in these brutal, terrifying days we're living in, but the r…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:06PM 
