Thursday, 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 06:07PMI wrote a feature on New Conservatory Theatre Center’s Some Men by Terrence McNally for today’s San Francisco Chronicle. You can read it here. Here are a few pieces of my interview with …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:08PMWednesday, June 3, 2009
If you want a big, dramatic scene involving John Rosenberg smashing things on his way out the door, you better look elsewhere. About three years ago, along with Tore Ingersoll-Thorp and Dami…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:23PMTuesday, June 2, 2009
Husband-and-wife team Rob Melorse and Paige Rogers are the creative force behind San Francisco’s The Cutting Ball Theater. The company is heading into its 10th anniversary season. Photo co…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:24PMThe new Broadway cast recording of West Side Story is out today in all the usual outlets (in three dimensions on CD, digitally via iTunes, etc.). To celebrate the classic work of Leonard Ber…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:24PMExtended through June 28 Zoë Winters (left) is Jackie, James Wagner (center) is Dennis and Warren David Keith is Philip in the Magic Theatre’s season-ending production of Mauritius by The…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:59PMSunday, May 31, 2009
Opened May 30, 2009 at the Bruns Amphitheater Alex Morf and Sarah Nealis are the star-crossed young lovers in the California Shakespeare Theater’s season-opening production of Romeo and Ju…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:10PMSaturday, May 30, 2009
This job I’ve given myself – to write about the people and companies creating the lively and wonderful Bay Area theater scene – is incredibly fun. I’ve been doing it for various publ…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:18PMNot to get too political here, but isn’t it refreshing, theater fans, to have a First Family that enjoys and advocates the arts – and specifically theater? President and Mrs. Obama are s…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:28PMFriday, May 29, 2009
Nick Gabriel is the Emcee and Kate Del Castillo is Sally Bowled in the Center Repertory Company production of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret. Photos by kevinberne.com Decadence, pineapples, Nazi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:55PMThursday, May 28, 2009
Opened May 27, 2009 at the Golden Gate Theatre Jeff Dumas is loyal sidekick Patsy (backed up by the Lady of the Lake’s Laker Girls) in the Broadway touring production of Monty Python’s S…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:05PMWednesday, May 27, 2009
Anthony Rapp (left) is Mark, Lexi Lawson (center) is Mimi and Adam Pascal is Roger in the latest national touring company of the rock musical Rent, coming to San Francisco’s Curran Theatre…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:56PMTuesday, May 26, 2009
Everything wonderful about the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights is captured in the new PBS documentary “In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams.” (The show airs at 8 p.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:57PMThe cast of Killing My Lobster’s KML Hits Highway 101 includes (from left) Christine Bullen, Callum Grant, Leslie Waggoner, Andy Alabran and Nick A. Olivero. Photo by Ashley Forrette. In t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:55PMMonday, May 25, 2009
EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 21! JoAnne Winter is Cora and Ryan Tasker is Billy in Two on a Party, a theatrical adaptation of a Tennessee Williams short story and a co-production of Word for Word a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:44PMSunday, May 24, 2009
Italian actor/writer/director Roberto Benigni has had some cinematic difficulty since his Academy Award-winning Life Is Beautiful came out more than a decade ago. He was incredibly creepy as…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:58PMSaturday, May 23, 2009
EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 28! Mark Jackson (left) is Faust and Peter Ruocco is Mephistopheles in Jackson’s adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, Part 1, a Shotgun Players production at the Ashby Sta…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:21PMMy love of things Disney is no secret, so imagine what a thrill it was to get a chance to talk with Disney songwriter Richard M. Sherman about his long-running rift with songwriting partner …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:16PMFriday, May 22, 2009
EXTENDED AGAIN THROUGH JULY 12! Maria Candelaria (left) is Belicia, Biko Eisen-Martin (center) is Fukú and Vanessa Cota is Lola in the Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts production of Fu…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:39PMThursday, May 21, 2009
We already knew that Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical solo show, Wishful Drinking, was headed to Broadway. What we didn’t know was that Fisher will be Drinking at Berkeley Repertory Thea…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:18PMOpened May 20, 2009 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Danny Scheie solidifies his reputation as one of the Bay Area’s best, most original actors as the title character in Amy Freed’s You, Ne…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:35PMMonday, May 18, 2009
The touring cast of Monty Python’s Spamalot. Photo by Joan Marcus If you know about the Knights of the Round Table, who dance when’er they’re able, then you probably already know that …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:24PMSunday, May 17, 2009
I’ve written before about Bay Area actors whose names, just by appearing on a cast list in a program, excite certain expectations and delights. Danny Scheie (at right, photo by Henry DiRoc…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:39PMThursday, May 14, 2009
Opened May 13, 2009 at the American Conservatory Theater Rachel Ticotin (left) is Doña Milla, Lela Loren (center) is Flora and Robert Beltran is Don Fermin in the American Conservatory Thea…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:38AMWednesday, May 13, 2009
I wrote a story for today’s San Francisco Chronicle about the first collaboration between Word for Word and Theatre Rhinoceros. The two venerable companies are producing Three on a Party, …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:56AMTuesday, May 12, 2009
Opened May 11, 2009 at The Boxcar Playhouse Laura Jane Coles offers a sponge bath to a young man she found on the beach played by Eric Kerr in Caridad Svich’s Wreckage, a Crowded Fire Thea…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:52PMI wrote a story for the San Francisco Chronicle about Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao becoming the Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts play…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:16PMMonday, May 11, 2009
Maureen McVerry is Wildcat Jackson and Rob Hatzenbeller is Joe Dynamite in the 42nd Stret Moon production of the 1960s musical Wildcat. Not much growl left in `Wildcat’«« There’s a mom…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:31PMSunday, May 10, 2009
Opened May 9, 2009 at SF Playhouse Jackson Davis and Amy Resnick are Dwight and Jean, two lovers awash in a sea of cynicism, stationery and sentiment in Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phon…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:33PMSaturday, May 9, 2009
It was a perfect Friday-night cultural double feature: opening night of Smuin Ballet’s spring season at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and then a quick dash to the Rrazz Room in the H…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:23PMFriday, May 8, 2009
While most theater companies hunker down and attempt to get through this recession as best they can, others are taking bold steps. Crowded Fire has announced that for its next production, Wr…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:50AM 
