Thursday, March 21, 2013
Need your Patti LuPone fix? You've come to the right place.
We have for you an interview with Ms. LuPone in connection with the San Francisco debut of her latest cabaret show, Far Away Plac…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:13PMFriday, March 15, 2013
Two reviews in print this week for two wildly different shows: the return of Jersey Boys to the Curran Theatre as part of the SHN season and the local premiere of Katori Hall's The Mountaint…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:16PMThursday, March 14, 2013
Oriana Fallaci was a fascinating, riveting person in real life, a crusading, eviscerating journalist whose intensity often made her part of the story. In journalist and playwright Lawrence W…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:15PMThursday, March 7, 2013
It seems there are two plays battling it out in American Conservatory Theater's world premiere of Dead Metaphor by Canadian plawyright George F. Walker. Three of the characters are broadly c…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:10PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
We have a Theater Dogs guest writer! Welcome Scott Lucas of San Francisco magazine, who chatted with playwright Jordan Puckett, whose Inevitable runs through March 23rd as part of San Franci…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:26PMSunday, March 3, 2013
p>Shakespeare didn't drop any F-bombs in his comedy As You Like It, but that doesn't stop Impact Theatre. There are lots of non-Shakespeare asides in this highly edited, streamlined versi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:13PMFriday, March 1, 2013
It sounds like a set up for a joke. Mike Tyson, battered and bruised by his career as a champion boxer, by his addictions, by his ego, by life itself, walks onto the stage of the Orpheum The…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:48PMSunday, February 10, 2013
Beautiful, ambitious and with the kind of depth we've come not to expect from musicals, The Fourth Messenger is a triumph. This world-premiere work is not perfect...yet. But if any new homeg…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:05PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
[warning: this review does not hide or disguise the word "motherfucker" in the title of the play at hand]
The comedy, the intensity and all that rough language keeps things skittering rig…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:54PMSunday, February 3, 2013
Sometimes it's too easy to forget we're a nation at war, and that's not at all a good thing to be able to say. But it's true, especially here in the Bay Area bubble, where the war seems espe…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:04PMFriday, February 1, 2013
There's a lot to like in the world premiere of Anthony Clarvoe's family drama Our Practical Heaven at Aurora Theatre Company. Laughs come frequently, the production itself – full of light …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:22PMThursday, January 31, 2013
There are moments when Octavio Solis' darkly poetic writing leaves me breathless. Take this passage from his world-premiere play Se Llama Cristina as two lovers are driving down a lonely hig…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:55PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
I suspect Samuel Beckett knew exactly what he was doing when he wrote Waiting for Godot and left more questions unanswered than answered. The less specific you are, the more your audience me…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:36PMSunday, November 18, 2012
Cathy Rigby, seemingly forever young, is flying again as Peter Pan.
The onetime Olympic gymnast who became famous for hawking feminine hygiene products on TV reinvented herself as an actor …
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:23AMThursday, November 15, 2012
Even ophidiophobe Indiana Jones would fall in love with the stunning serpents at the heart of Mary Zimmerman's The White Snake, a poignant, colorful tale from ancient China that arrives at B…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:21PMSunday, November 11, 2012
Charming — that's the word that kept running through my brain while watching the 42nd Street Moon production of Carmelina, the largely forgotten 1979 musical by Alan Jay Lerner (of My Fair…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:23PMFriday, November 9, 2012
Of the four short Thornton Wilder plays that comprise Aurora Theatre Company's Wilder Times, one is grating, one is darkly funny, one is poignant and one is so brilliant, so moving it almost…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:08PMThursday, November 1, 2012
Suddenly, we're awash in Greeks. Must have something to do with the upcoming election. Everyone's feeling deeply and internationally tragic. We have An Iliad over at Berkeley Repertory Theat…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:46PMTuesday, October 30, 2012
If Apple or some other high-tech giant was really smart, really forward thinking, they'd head down to the Thick House and check out the West Coast premiere of Christopher Chen's The Hundred …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:38PMMonday, October 29, 2012
In 1985, Betty Buckley was sensational as a boy in the Rupert Holmes musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood (which happens to be back on Broadway at the moment in an all-new production). She was…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:00AMSunday, October 21, 2012
Watching August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata at Cutting Ball Theater, it becomes clear that without Strindberg, we probably would not have the wonderfully weird worlds of Samuel Beckett or …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:44PMFriday, October 19, 2012
One minute the stage is bare, then there's a blackout, some noise, and suddenly the stage is full of...a poet. Not just a poet, but The Poet, the guy who is going to tell us the story of ...…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:57AMSunday, October 14, 2012
Opening nights don't come much more momentous than Saturday's gala celebrating three things:
1. San Francisco Playhouse's new theater space in the former Post Street Theatre (formerly …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:02PMSunday, October 7, 2012
When Moisés Kaufman gets to the point in his play 33 Variations, there's resonance, beauty and purpose in it. For nearly 2 ½hours we've been tracking parallel stories: one in the present a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:34PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
"Know what is and what ain't," one brother advises another in Suzan-Lori Parks' mesmerizing play Topdog/Underdog. Telling what is from what ain't is a tricky business in this deceptively str…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:37PMSunday, September 23, 2012
On exactly the kind of temperate night for which they invented outdoor theater, California Shakespeare Theater opened the final show of the summer season. Hamlet, directed by Liesl Tommy (be…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:06PMSaturday, September 22, 2012
There's a slippery quality to Sharr White's The Other Place, the drama opening the Magic Theatre season. The first half of this 80-minute one-act is especially slick as we try to gain our be…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:52PMFriday, September 21, 2012
In some ways, Larry Kramer's landmark play The Normal Heart is just a lot of yelling. Characters don't simply raise their voices, they scream, sometimes from the depths of their souls. And t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:24PMMonday, September 17, 2012
Ah, the excitement of a new season. We may not have the dramatic foliage color changes here in San Francisco. We may not have the crisp fall air slowly pushing out the hot, dry summer air (i…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:00PMSunday, September 9, 2012
The thing to know about Crowded Fire's Invasion! is that it's best not to know too much. There's comedy, mystery, surprises and sinister darkness all lurking about director Evren Odcikin's s…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:56PMFriday, August 31, 2012
In professional wrestling, we're told, you can't kick a guy's ass without the help of the guy whose ass you're kicking. Talk about a democracy! Perhaps there's more to learn from the gaudy w…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:17PM 
