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Monday, October 6, 2008

Review: `I’m Yours! (or Deranged by Love)’ by Chad Jones

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 …

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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Cabaret Review: Terese Genecco & Her Little Big Band by Chad Jones

Here’s a recipe for a perfect Saturday night: go see a play, but make sure it gets out around 10, and then head to the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko and see Terese Genecco and her Little B…

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Review: `Shining City’ by Chad Jones

Opened Oct. 4, 2008, SF Playhouse Paul Whitworth (left) is John, a grief-stricken widower, and Alex Moggridge is Ian, a fledgling therapist in the SF Playhouse production of Conor McPherson�…

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Crowded Fire cancels `Vera Cupido’ by Chad Jones

New Crowded Fire artistic director Marissa Wolf announced Saturday that Monday’s opening of My Name Is Vera Cupido by Stephanie Fleischmann has been cancelled, as has the entire run of the…

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Friday, October 3, 2008

When Sarah Palin went `Wicked’ by Chad Jones

Not that we’re getting political, but this is just too funny: a mix of presidential politics and show tunes — an unlikely combo. And the thing is that whoever is singing this re-written …

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Review: `Irma La Douce’ by Chad Jones

Alison Ewing (left) is the lone woman in 42nd Street Moon’s production of Irma La Douce, the story of a sweet Parisian prostitute. Playing some of the “mecs” in her life are (from top)…

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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Review: `The K of D’ by Chad Jones

Maya Lawson plays the inhabitants of a small Ohio town in the ghost story The K of D, the one-woman show that opens the new Magic Theatre season. Photos by www.DavidAllenStudio.com   Magic …

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Hippin’ Shakespeare’s hop, selling Benzali’s Willy, trying Barker’s `Devil’ by Chad Jones

Always a lot going on in the big, wide world of Bay Area theater, so let’s get right to it. SHAKESPEARE RAPS: The African-American Shakespeare Company is in the midst of MacB: The MacBeth …

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Monday, September 29, 2008

Metcalf, Williams, Lagerfelt star in ACT’s `Quality of Life’ by Chad Jones

ACT’s The Quality of Life stars, from left JoBeth Williams, Dennis Boutsikaris and Laurie Metcalf. Photo courtesy of the Geffen Playhouse and Michael Lamont. American Conservatory Theater …

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Saturday, September 27, 2008

`Wicked’ witches swarm Union Square by Chad Jones

Green-faced fans of all kinds swarmed San Francisco’s Union Square on Friday, Sept. 26 – Wicked Day in San Francisco, according to a proclamation from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom �…

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Review: `A Bronx Tale’ by Chad Jones

  Chazz Palminteri excavates his childhood in his one-man show A Bronx Tale, at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre through Oct. 19. Photo by Joan Marcus   Chazz Palminteri offers a `Bro…

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

C’est magnifique — `Irma La Douce’ gets intimate by Chad Jones

Greg MacKellan and has cast and crew for Irma LaDouce are finding out what the expression “the show must go on” really means. A mere week before the first preview performances of the 195…

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Fringe felicitations: Best of winners, encores announced by Chad Jones

The cast of “Best of Fringe” Award-winning Lost and Found in the Mission includes (from left) Rowena Richie, Susie Hara, Carol Landes, Joan D. Saunders, Peter Griggs and Jocelyn Truitt. …

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Monday, September 22, 2008

Workin’! `9 to 5′ hits the stage by Chad Jones

Megan Hilty (left), Allison Janney (center) and Stephanie J. Block in the world premiere of 9 to 5: The Musical at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles Music Center. The sh…

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Dolly Days! Carol Channing returns to San Francisco by Chad Jones

SAD NEWS! After I posted the article below, I received a press release stating that for health reasons, Carol Channing has had to cancel her San Francisco performances this week. This is the…

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Review: `Vera Wilde’ by Chad Jones

Opened Sept. 19, 2008 at the Ashby Stage   Sean Owens (center) is Ocar Wilde in Shotgun Players’ production of Vera Wilde, a musical play by Chris Jeffries. Owens is flanked by (from left…

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Friday, September 19, 2008

Review: `Jungle Red’ by Chad Jones

Varla Jean Merman stars as vixenish Crystal Allen in Jungle Red, the musical parody of The Women at the Victoria Theatre. Photo by Austin Young   Cat fights and glamour: `Jungle Red’ shar…

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Chazz hands! Palminteri tells a `Bronx Tale’ by Chad Jones

If your name was Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri, you might simplify to Chazz, too. Chazz Palminteri has made a career of playing thugs, gangsters, wiseguys and goombahs – maybe those are all …

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

O’Neill Festival honors Paul Robeson by Chad Jones

This year’s Eugene O’Neill Festival in Danville will honor Paul Robeson, the legendary African-American actor who died in 1976 at age 77, The festival begins today (Thursday, Sept. 18) a…

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Review: “Rock ‘n’ Roll” by Chad Jones

Opened Sept. 17, 2008   Rene Augesen is Esme and Manoel Felciano is Jan in a scene set at Prague’s John Lennon wall in the American Conservatory Theater production of Rock ‘n’ Roll by…

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Thar she blows! Matthew Martin dresses up `Moby Dick!’ by Chad Jones

[PLEASE NOTE: Moby Dick! The Musical has been extended through Oct. 19] You can bet that Matthew Martin has the greatest gams on the Pequod. Martin, the San Francisco drag superstar, is havi…

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Bravo Bernstein! San Francisco celebrates Lenny by Chad Jones

The great American composer Leonard Bernstein would have been 90 this year, and the man who gave us the memorable music for West Side Story, Candide and other Broadway shows, among all his o…

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Monday, September 15, 2008

`Wicked’ witches head west, Taylor Hicks follows by Chad Jones

Wicked, the hit musical positively rolling in green, had its world premiere at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre before heading to Broadway ‘s Gershwin Theatre, where it has broken the hous…

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Review: `Twelfth Night’ by Chad Jones

  Alex Morf (left) is Viola disguised as Cesario and Stephen Barker Turner is Count Orsino in the California Shakespeare Theater’s season-ending production of Twelfth Night. Photos by Kev…

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Review: `More Stories by Tobias Wolff’ by Chad Jones

Anthony Nemirovsky is the son and Jeri Lynn Cohen is his mother in the Tobias Wolff short story “Firelight,” one of three stories in Word for Word’s More Stories by Tobias Wolff at San…

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Friday, September 12, 2008

Politics `Beach Blanket Babylon’ style by Chad Jones

Leave it to the country’s longest-running musical revue –34 years and counting — to nail the political atmosphere. Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, always updating characters an…

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Manoel Felciano aims to make Stoppard `Rock’ by Chad Jones

Manoel Felciano stars in the ACT production of Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll. Photo by Ashley Forette Photography Manoel Felciano, a San Francisco native, had to play Broadway before he…

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

`Spring Awakening’s’ Kyle Riabko in SF concert by Chad Jones

Kyle Riabko has two jobs: he’s starring as Melchior in the national tour of Spring Awakening, now at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre through Oct. 12. He’s also a rising Canadian pop sta…

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Cal Shakes announces ’09 season by Chad Jones

As the California Shakespeare Theater heads into its final show of the season (Twelfth Night), artistic director Jonathan Moscone has announced next summer’s line-up. The season will mark …

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Meet the twins: Alex Morf does `Twelfth Night’ by Chad Jones

And suddenly, Alex Morf was everywhere. Not exactly, but it sure seemed that there was the Bay Area theater scene without Alex Morf, and then with him – in a big way. The wrestler from rur…

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Odds & ends: Legally Brown, `Spring’ cast blog by Chad Jones

You’ve gotta see this hilarious spoof of MTV’s terrible “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for the Next Elle Woods.” It’s related to In the Heights, and it’s called “Legal…

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