Friday, 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 11:50AMWednesday, May 6, 2009
Legendary performer Ben Vereen sang standards and songs from Broadway in his Rrazz Room show. Photos by Isak Tiner Kick, kick, turn and SING! Ben Vereen does the cabaret thing«««« Tow…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:42PMThis is just too much fun not to share. With the passing of Bea Arthur, it’s good to remember her musical roots. Oh, for the heyday of ’70s variety shows! What producer these days would …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:03PMTuesday, May 5, 2009
Let’s get one thing out of the way right now: Sam Harris is well aware of Adam Lambert. Harris, the big winner on the first-ever season of “Star Search” back in the ’80s, has a gorge…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:51PMTony nominations came out today, and there are a couple of things that make me happy. Dolly Parton is a Tony nominee! [title of show] was not completely shout out! Some favorite actors – J…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:08PMSaturday, April 18, 2009
Ian Walker (left) is J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, and Charles Evans is Gen. Leslie R. Groves in Carson Kreitzer’s drama The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a produ…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:05PMFriday, April 17, 2009
The cast of John Bisceglie’s SF Follies hustles through the ’70s ABBA style. The hit revue continues through April 26 at The Actors Theatre. The show may return in a new-and-improved for…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:15PMThursday, April 16, 2009
Benjamin Pither (left), Glenn Kiser (center) and Harry Breaux are Midwestern men recruited to play French ladies in a late ’20s pageant in Jordan Harrison’s intriguing Act a Lady at the …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:55PMWednesday, April 15, 2009
Ask a group of San Francisco theater enthusiasts what they think about a show and you’ll get more than an earful. That’s what R.C. Staab found out – the hard way – when he held a rea…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:42AMThe cast of SF Playhouse’s taut drama The Story includes, from left, Craig Marker, Ryan Peters, Kathryn Tkel and Halili Knox. Photos by Zabrina Tipton Racial politics, lies, ambition an…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:10AMTuesday, April 14, 2009
A man of character, Trevor Allen decided to put his character life behind him. Having detailed what it’s really like to work as a costumed character in Disneyland in his popular solo show …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:19PMSunday, April 12, 2009
Opened April 12, 2009, Magic Theatre Ryun Yu as David, a New York investment banker, talks on the phone with his sister, Esther played by Angela Yin in the Magic Theatre’s world-premier…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:18PMSaturday, April 11, 2009
Spirits are blithe in Moon’s `High Spirits’««« ½ What’s the point of reviewing a show just a few days before it closes? Not much from a commercial point of view. But given the sudd…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:12PMFriday, April 10, 2009
EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 17 Mark Anderson Phillips is Jean the footman and Lauren Grace is Miss Julie, the title character in Mark Jackson’s production of the Strindberg classic at Berkeley’…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:44PMThursday, April 9, 2009
The band GrooveLily (Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda and Gene Lewin, seen above in a photo by Leslie Lyons) has had to cancel its benefit concert for TheatreWorks that was scheduled for Frid…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:40PMWednesday, April 8, 2009
Rebecca Dines is a harried mother desperately trying to figure out how to help her 9-year-old son, who may have Attention Deficit Disorder, in Lisa Loomer’s Distracted, a TheatreWorks prod…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:23PMTuesday, April 7, 2009
Word from New York today is that Jack Wrangler, the gay porn star turned musical theater writer, has died after a struggle with lung disease. He was 62 and his survived by his wife, the sing…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:09PMLast week I interviewed Craig Jessup for the San Francisco Chronicle about his series of Craig Jessup Sings Noël Coward concerts at the Exit Theatre. For whatever reason, the story failed t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:24PMSunday, April 5, 2009
The American Theatre Critics Association has selected E.M. (Ellen) Lewis’ Song of Extinction to receive the 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg /ATCA New Play Award. The announcement was made A…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:50AMSaturday, April 4, 2009
Charles Ross, the man who brought us his One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, is heading to a whole other dark side — and this one has a real ring to it. For two performances only, Ross performs The…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:39AMYussef El Guindi, who served as literary manager for San Francisco’s Golden Thread Productions, a dramaturg for the Eureka Theatre Company and a reader for the Magic Theatre, has won the A…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:57AMFriday, April 3, 2009
If you haven’t seen Burn the Floor, the hot, hot, hot ballroom dance floor that has been extended through April 26 at San Francisco’s Post Street Theatre, you really should. If you’re …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:08PMThe cast of Marin Theatre Company’s Lydia includes, from left, Gloria Garayua as Ceci, Adriana Gavria as Lydia, David Pintado as Misha and Elias Escobedo as Alvaro. Photos by Ed Smith Powe…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:41AMThursday, April 2, 2009
Opened April 1 at American Conservatory Theater Soldiers rock out with their “guns” out in American Conservatory Theater’s War Music, a world premiere adaptation written and directed L…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:22PMWednesday, April 1, 2009
As someone who has loved musicals since his formative years, Jim Gardia is certainly in the right business. And to think, he could have ended up as a swim coach. In college, Gardia, who was …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:39PMAurora Theatre Company artistic director Tom Ross announced today his Berkeley company’s 18th season, which stems from the theme “Family and Fortune.” In addition to classics and newer…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:05AMMonday, March 30, 2009
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is rocking and rolling with Green Day. After the success of Stew’s Passing Strange, it seems Berkeley Rep can’t get enough of the rock. Already announced for t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:30PMSunday, March 29, 2009
EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 9!!! Cutting Ball’s `Pain’ hurts so good«««« What begins in darkness ends about an hour later on a bleak shiver of hope. Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on noth…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:16PMSaturday, March 28, 2009
After three months on hiatus, Theater Dogs is once again back in action! I was in Sacramento working for an excellent newspaper, but now I’m back in San Francisco and happily on the theate…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:05PMSunday, December 28, 2008
Hello, loyal Theater Dogs readers. First, I’d like to thank you for bothering to show up here in the first place. I’m so grateful (and have been since the blog started in August, 2006) f…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:20PMTuesday, December 23, 2008
Theatergoing in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of life’s treats. No question about it. If you love theater, this is a wonderland. In this devastating economic climate, may that only hol…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:30PM 
