Thursday, February 4, 2010
There’s bad news aplenty in the world, so it’s always nice to discover some bright spots of good news, especially in the theater world. San Francisco playwright Trevor Allen, who had a s…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:30AMWednesday, February 3, 2010
Paula West is going to do things to you in the dark, and you’re going to like it. Now that she can actually be considered a veteran of the San Francisco cabaret scene, West is letting loos…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:00AMMonday, February 1, 2010
Julia Brothers floors ’em in Joel Drake Johnson’s The First Grade at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company. Rebecca Schweitzer is in the background. Photo by David Allen The Bay Area…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:30AMSunday, January 31, 2010
Megan McGinnis and Robert Adelman Hancock star in the TheatreWorks premiere of
Daddy Long Legs, a new musical. Photo by Mark Kitaoka.
There’s a joke about being huge in Japan, bu…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:49PMFriday, January 29, 2010
In the Palo Alto Players production of Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, Becca (Shannon Warrick) and Howie (Earle Carlson) look for comfort after the unimaginable. Photo courtesy of Palo …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:37PMThursday, January 28, 2010
I’ve been spending the last few months with Ira Gershwin, and I must say, I have completely enjoyed his company. Greg MacKellan, the co-artistic director of San Francisco company 42nd Stre…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:13AMTuesday, October 27, 2009
Two extraordinary shows are lighting up Bay Area stages, and in each of them, the specter of death hovers in the shadows. In Trevor Allen’s intelligent, compassionate adaptation of Franken…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:02AMTuesday, September 1, 2009
TOP: Ralph and Myron (l-r, Patrick Russell and Charles Dean) have a father-and-son talk as Moe (back, Rod Gnapp) listens in Aurora Theatre Company’s production of Awake and Sing! Photo by …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:06AMMonday, August 24, 2009
Patty Gallagher is a gun-toting Winnie in the Cal Shakes production of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett. Photo by Kevin Berne In the world of live theater, you never know from where the drama wi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:00AMTuesday, August 18, 2009
Leo Bloom (Tim Reynolds) and Ulla (Brittany Ogle) in Foothill Music Theatre’s The Producers. Photo by David Allen These aren’t appearing here in a timely fashion, but they’re here, jus…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:57PMMonday, August 17, 2009
Shannon Cochran (left) is eldest daughter Barbara and Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons is Violet, her drug-addled mother, in the national Broadway tour of August: Osage County, running t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:00AMSunday, August 16, 2009
Peter Pan (Brandy Collazo) outwits Captain Hook (Gabriel Grilli) in the Peter Pan, The musical, a Berkeley Playhouse production playing through Aug. 23 at Ashby Stage. Photo by Ralph Granich…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:33PMSaturday, July 18, 2009
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. – Oscar Wilde What a tumultuous year it has been here at Theater Dogs. Thank you for taking the ride. The news is that I have jumped th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:40PMSunday, July 5, 2009
In today’s SF Chronicle Sunday Datebook, I wrote about the fine art of clowning. A couple weekends ago I attended a clown class in the Teatro ZinZanni spiegeltent with Peter Pitofsky. Read…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:53PMSaturday, July 4, 2009
Mark Bedard is hilarious and charming as the title character in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s new adaptation of Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters. Photo by Jenny Graham Two and a half…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:54PMFriday, July 3, 2009
I wrote a story for my former employer, the Sacramento Bee, about one of my favorite singers: Spencer Day, who was a San Francisco resident for a while but is now dwelling in Southern Califo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:46PMTuesday, June 30, 2009
These crazy kids went and put on a musical! And it’s a canny spoof of West Side Story — more cutting edge, sorry to say, than the revival currently on Broadway. See more funny videos and…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:51PMTuesday, June 23, 2009
Vilma Silva and Armando Durán star in Octavio Solis’ adaptation of Don Quixote on the Elizabethan Stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Photo by David Cooper. The first round of my re…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:56PMBehind every great diva there’s a hard-working, often brilliant musical director. For Bernadette Peters, that man is Marvin Laird. The two first worked together in 1961. He was the assista…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:06PMSaturday, June 13, 2009
Many theater companies take a break during the summer months and send audiences into the great outdoors for some Shakespeare or Mime Troupe action. But San Jose Repertory Theatre is launchin…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:59PMLast week, Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, awarded the annual Scholarships for the Arts from the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon, whi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:43PMThursday, June 11, 2009
Opened June 10, 2990 at American Conservatory Theater René Augesen is Ann and Anthony Fusco is Peter in the “Homelife” half of Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo, the final show of the…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:21AMI reviewed Marin Theatre Company’s production of What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton as my first reviewing assignment for the Marin Independent Journal. You can read the review here. The show…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:22AMWednesday, June 10, 2009
You’ve heard about monsters being unleashed and wreaking havoc in New York? Well, Beth Wilmurt was just such a monster. The San Francisco-based actor played a ferocious dragon in the final…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:40PMTuesday, June 9, 2009
From the ashes of the American Musical Theatre of San Jose rises a whole new series bringing Broadway tours to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, and it’s called Broadway San Jos…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:55PMLast Saturday night, the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s one and only transport van was stolen. In preparation for this summer’s road tour around the Bay Area, the Troupe had just outfitted …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:52PMSunday, June 7, 2009
Live (well, the West Coast version of live, which is actually three hours NOT live, but hey, we’re on the West Coast) 63rd Annual Tony Awards blogging! Please comment and join the conversa…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:31PMThe cast of Terrence McNally’s Some Men includes (from left) Brandon Finch, P.A Cooley, George Patrick Scott, Scott Cox, Dann Howard, Christopher Morrell, Patrick Michael Dukeman, and Matt…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:50PMSaturday, June 6, 2009
Lillian Askew is 4-year-old Lucy and Gabriel Grilli is her imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade in Noah Haidle’s oddball comedy Mr. Marmalade, a Custom Made Theatre Co. production. Photos by Be…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:23PMFriday, June 5, 2009
Paul Gerrior is Krapp, a 69-year-old writer spending his birthday with the spirits of his younger selves via an old reel-to-reel tape recorder in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, a Cu…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:08PMThursday, June 4, 2009
Finally caught up with the outstanding documentary Every Little Step about casting the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line. Though some Chorus Line purists balked at the revival, I was pretty …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:07PM 
