Tuesday, 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 10:30PMMonday, December 22, 2008
Broadway’s first couple, Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, had a pretty good 2008. He had a long run in the final Kander and Ebb musical, Curtains, and she was the Lady of the Lake in Monty…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:22PMThursday, December 18, 2008
At this bleak moment in history, when it seems the roof is crashing down on arts organizations all around us, it’s refreshing to hear about on theater company literally knocking down a wal…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:28PMWednesday, December 17, 2008
Some members of the Los Angeles company of Wicked (seen above) will be hopping the broomstick north when the production lands at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre in January. Photo by Joan M…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:33PMTuesday, December 16, 2008
Shakespeare Santa Cruz is the latest victim of the apocalyptic economy. SSC board co-presidents Bill Richter and Scott Hawkins posted an “urgent message” on the SSC Web site that stated …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:58PMMonday, December 15, 2008
Football star Steve (Stephen Foreman, left) meets the fabulously gay student body of Heartsville High in the musical Zanna, Don’t at the New Conservatory Theatre Center. Photos by Lois Tem…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:26PMSunday, December 14, 2008
The cast of Aaron Loeb’s Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party performs an elaborate opening number in the SF Playhouse world-premiere production. Photos by Zabrina Tipton. History, p…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:00PMThursday, December 11, 2008
James Carpenter (center) is Scrooge in American Conservatory Theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol. Photo by Kevin Berne American Conservatory Theater’s annual production of A…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:21PMWednesday, December 10, 2008
Reconnecting to what the holiday season actually means is a difficult thing to do amid the noise of our busy world. It’s especially hard this year in a country drowning in bad news, bankru…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:44PMTuesday, December 9, 2008
For ACT’s `Rich and Famous, all’s fair in love and Guare The cast for American Conservatory Theater’s Rich and Famous, a 1974 satirical comedy by John Guare (pictured a left, photo by …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:38PMMonday, December 8, 2008
“God bless us, everyone!” doesn’t warm the cockles of every holiday heart. Traditional holiday theatrical fare is great, but sometimes you need an alternative. Thankfully, here in the …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:01PMFriday, December 5, 2008
Rhonnie Washington (left) is The Foundling Father, an Abraham Lincoln lookalike, who lets customers (such as David Westley Skillman) take aim and fire a cap gun at him in Suzan-Lori Parks’…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:47PMThursday, December 4, 2008
First a disclosure: the following deals with one of my best friends, who happens to be a fantastic performer and a veteran of the Bay Area theater and cabaret scene. One of the reasons Craig…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:37PMJames Carpenter plays Ebenezer Scrooge “dead seriously.” “It’s just like when you play farce,” Carpenter explains. “You don’t play it funny. You have to invest as fully as you …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:25PMWednesday, December 3, 2008
John Cudia as the Phantom woos Trista Moldovan with the music of the night in the U.S. touring production of The Phantom of the Opera, which plays through the holidays at the Orpheum Theatre…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:45PMTuesday, December 2, 2008
Husband-and-wife team Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda follow up the success of Striking 12 with a new two-person musical, Long Story Short, a TheatreWorks production now at the Lucie Ster…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:19PMAmerican Musical Theatre of San Jose announced Dec. 1 that it was ceasing operations effectively and that its slate of upcoming shows, both self-produced and touring, were canceled. A call t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:37PMMonday, December 1, 2008
The final curtain has fallen abruptly on the American Musical Theatre of San Jose. The group sent out a press release today announcing that it will cease operations effective immediately and…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:58PMToday is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, a sad anniversary but an important one. Would that we were celebrating the end of AIDS in the world, but we’re a long way away from that pa…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:16PMMonday, November 24, 2008
Dame Edna warbles her way through songs and insults audience member like nobody’s business in her new show, Dame Edna: Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour, at San Francisco’s Post S…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:24PMSunday, November 23, 2008
Forget about High School Musical. The real teen movie musical to see is Were the World Mine, a favorite of the gay film festival circuit that is now seeing wider release. While Disney’s HS…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:45PMSaturday, November 22, 2008
Carlo D’Amore plays himself, his mother, members of his family and assorted other characters in his one-man show No Parole at The Marsh in San Francisco. Photo by Rudy Meyers It’s a laug…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:12PMFriday, November 21, 2008
Creative schizophrenia is a common occurrence in show biz. You’ve got actors, writers and sometimes even directors donning different personalities in the name of storytelling and entertain…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:10PMThursday, November 20, 2008
EXTENDED AGAIN! NOW THROUGH JAN. 18! The rambunctious cast of Mary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights tells the tale of the virtuous merchant, his hideous bride and the beauty who tricked him.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:23PMWednesday, November 19, 2008
EXTEDNED THROUGH DEC. 14 The cast of Marin Theatre Company’s The Seafarer by Conor McPherson includes (from left) Julian Lopez-Morillas as Richard, Andrew Hurteau as Ivan, Andy Murray as S…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:00AMTuesday, November 18, 2008
Lee Meriwether has had a long, distinguished career that stretches from her beauty queen days as Miss San Francisco, Miss California and eventually Miss America in the mid-’50s to her stin…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:50PMMonday, November 17, 2008
EXTENDED THROUGH DEC. 21! The cast of the Magic Theatre’s Evie’s Waltz includes, from left, Marielle Heller, Darren Bridgett and Julia Brothers. The Carter W. Lewis play continues throug…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:57PMFriday, November 14, 2008
Pete Townshend and The Who did it. Phil Collins did it badly. Duncan Sheik did it brilliantly. Billy Joel sort of did it. And Elton John does it every other day. Now it’s time for Ben Fold…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:48PMThursday, November 13, 2008
A familiar face is back among us. Carlo D’Amore got his start in the acting world more than a decade ago in productions with some prominent Bay Area theaters: Theatre Rhinoceros’ Twelfth…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:02PMWednesday, November 12, 2008
No one ever said running a small theater company was easy. Last summer, TheatreFIRST founding artistic director Clive Chafer handed leadership of the company over to Dylan Russell and Alliso…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:17PMTuesday, November 11, 2008
The following letter, by musical theater performer Susan Egan (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) has been making the rounds of various social networking sites and includes a long quote from H…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:53PM 
