Tuesday, 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 02:53PMMonday, November 10, 2008
Broadway diva Patti LuPone releases a new old CD today: Patti LuPone at Les Mouches (Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom records). The disc is new, but the performance captured on it is from a New York nig…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:52PM42nd Street Moon, the company that specializes in charming productions of classic and lesser-known musicals, has announced a change in its season lineup. Next March, the previously announced…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:10PMSaturday, November 8, 2008
Out of the ruins and rubbleOut of the smokeOut of our night of struggleCan we see a ray of hope?One pale thin ray reaching for the day We can build a beautiful cityYes, we can; Yes, we can �…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:52PMFriday, November 7, 2008
Michael Ray Wisely (left) is a British soldier and Gabriel Marin is Dick Dudgeon, a man about to hang even though he’s not the man the Brits think he is in the Aurora Theatre Company’s p…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:45PMThursday, November 6, 2008
Cast members of Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone feel the spirit (from left): Barry Shabaka Henley as Seth, Kim Staunton as Bertha, Don Guillory as Jeremy and Bren…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:46PMWednesday, November 5, 2008
Norman Kern’s soothing voice tells you what to do: “Sit back, let your ears become your eyes and enjoy our play.” So begins celebrated Bay Area sound designer Kern’s latest project: …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:16PMTuesday, November 4, 2008
The Bay Area’s resident superstar, Rita Moreno, opens a new cabaret act at San Francisco’s Rrazz Room on Wednesday, Nov. 5. But she was recently at the Rrazz Room as an audience member f…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:03PMMonday, November 3, 2008
Meghann Reynolds and Jeff Horst croon “Embraceable You” in 42nd Street Moon’s revival of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Girl Crazy at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco. Photos b…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:30PMSunday, November 2, 2008
Some of the enthusiastic cast members of Berkeley Playhouse’s The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) are (clockwise from top right) Nkechi, Alona Bach, Tom Darci and Niko Darci-Maher. Photo by Kevin…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:33PMSaturday, November 1, 2008
Steven Culp (right), Laurie Metcalf (center) and JoBeth Williams star in Jane Anderson’s drama The Quality of Life at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater. Photos by Kevin Berne…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:47PMFriday, October 31, 2008
Matt Weimer plays Dan, a gay man in the Bible Belt, who is forbidden from seeing his children after the death of his longtime partner in Jerry Metzker’s drama His Heart Belongs to Me. Phot…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:43PMThursday, October 30, 2008
One of the great things about Bay Area theater is watching local actors grow into greatness. They may or may not strike off to find fortune and fame in New York or Los Angeles, or they may c…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:10PMWednesday, October 29, 2008
Perhaps it’s a sign that I’m old and have bad taste, but Disney’s High School Musical 3: Senior Year kept reminding of my favorite bad movie musical of all time: Grease 2. You’ve got…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:50PMMonica Cortes Viharo (right) plays Jackie O., a prostitute at a crossroads, in Charles Pike’s Ghost Train Coming, a Performers Under Stress production. Valerie Fachman plays The King, a so…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:40PMMonday, October 20, 2008
Oh, so many things to watch in this YouTube world of ours. Let’s get started with a tribute to the now-closed Broadway show [title of show], which had an incredibly devoted and active fan …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:13PMBerkeley Repertory Theatre’s Yellowjackets, a drama about Berkeley High School’s student newspaper, The Jacket, had some real-life consequences. Audiences raised more than $6,600 to help…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:00PMSaturday, October 18, 2008
COOL DISCOUNT TICKET OFFER FOR THEATER DOGS READERS! SEE BELOW! The Marsh is delving into theater of a whole new vintage these days. Best known as a breeding ground for great solo shows, The…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:02AMFriday, October 17, 2008
It’s a Bay Area autumn weekend. The weather is gorgeous and you should be out in the world enjoying various entertainments. And entertainments are never more varied than they are in the Ba…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:16PMThursday, October 16, 2008
Clinton Leupp doesn’t pretend to be a girl. He’s a man in a dress with a drag alter-ego named Coco Peru. He’s very much a man and very much Coco – two personalities for the price of …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:48PMWednesday, October 15, 2008
A friend sent this to me today. It originally appeared on McSweeney’s a few months ago, and if you know Facebook, you know how brilliant it is (bravo, Sarah Schmelling!): Hamlet (Facebook …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 06:02PMAldo Billingslea (left) is Harmond Wilks, C. Kelly Wright (center) is Harmond’s wife, Mame, and Anthony J. Haney is Harmond’s business partner, Roosevelt Hicks, in August Wilson’s Radi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:17PMTuesday, October 14, 2008
Spencer Evans (left) is the Mariachi and Erin Mei-Ling Stuart is Joey McGee in David Szlasa’s My HOT Lobotmy at CounterPULSE. Photos by Katrina Rodabaugh. Last time out, theatrical inno…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:55PMMonday, October 13, 2008
Keep your eyes and ears open for Russ Lorenson’s next show. If you care about quality cabaret – the elusive art that lives in a specific region where pop, jazz and theater intersect – …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:56PMSaturday, October 11, 2008
Earlier this week I attended the Theatre Bay Area Annual Conference, and amid much useful information about the state of local and national theater, and in between the networking and general…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:46PMFriday, October 10, 2008
Timothy Douglas is brining a sense of authenticity to his duties as director of Good Breeding, Robert O’Hara’s wild adaptation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. The production, which features Am…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:32PMThursday, October 9, 2008
Members of the Irish theater company Druid perform a double feature of John Millington Synge plays at Berkeley’s Roda Theatre as part of the Cal Performances season. Photos courtesy of Dru…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:00PMWednesday, October 8, 2008
Here’s an inspiring story that comes from the folks at The Museum of Performance & Design in San Francisco, who recently came to the rescue of set and costume designer Sandra Woodall a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:43PMThree of the actresses playing the Mitchell Sisters, the three main characters of the new musical Rivets, are (from left) Molly Lewis, Erica Maier (the understudy for Shawn Creighton) and Mo…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:21PMTuesday, October 7, 2008
C. Kelly Wright and Aldo Billingslea head a top-notch cast of Bay Area actors in the TheatreWorks production of August Wilson’s final play, Radio Golf. Photo by David Allen August Wilson, …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:30PMMonday, October 6, 2008
Opened Oct. 5, 2008 Christian Cagigal (left) is Miguel, Andrew Calabrese (center) is Cardenio and Erin Carter is Don Fernando in Precarious Theatre’s new musical I’m Yours! (or Deranged …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:25AM 
