Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:06PMMonday, September 8, 2008
Opened Sept. 7, 2008 at the Curran Theatre, San Francisco Kyle Riabko and Christy Altomare are Melchior and Wendla, the doomed lovers in Spring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning musical t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:16PMSunday, September 7, 2008
East Bay publicist Robert Rezak shares the following item with us from the current production of Will Rogers Follies: He’s appeared in 22 productions of The Will Rogers Follies, a Life in …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:30PMColman Domingo revisits his West Philadelphia, soul music-infused childhood in the solo show A Boy and His Soul at San Francisco’s Thick House. Photos by Rick Martin. Domingo’s soulful `…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:43PMSaturday, September 6, 2008
The cast of Lauren Yee’s Ching Chong Chinaman at Impact Theatre includes (from left) Dennis Yen, Arthur Keng, Sung Min Park, Cindy Im and Lisa Kang. Photos by Cheshire Isaacs Impact gets i…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:16PMFriday, September 5, 2008
For the Tony Award-winning composing team of Steven Sater (book and lyrics, above left) and Duncan Sheik (music), Spring fever may be abating. The duo, along with director Michael Mayer, wor…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:06PMThe cast of the Aurora Theatre Company’s The Best Man by Gore Vidal includes (from left) Tim Kniffen, Deb Fink, Charles Shaw Robinson, Michael Patrick Gaffney, and Michael Cassidy. Photos …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:02PMThursday, September 4, 2008
Seems like just yesterday that Crowded Fire Theatre Company announced the departure of founding artistic director Rebecca Novick and the ascension of co-artistic directors (and husband-and-w…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:42PMMichael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of Spring Awakening, remembers people looking at his show and saying things like: “You can’t be unconventional.” “That’s choreography…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:21PMOpened Sept. 3, 2008 — now extended through Oct. 19 Jahmela Biggs (left) is Ms. Robbins a teacher who has problems with the school newspaper and Ben Freeman is Avi, the new editor of th…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:15AMWednesday, September 3, 2008
Members of the Spring Awakening creative team will take part in a free “In Conversation” onstage event from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7 at the Curran Theatre, 445 Geary St., San Francisc…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:39PMIf the name Tom Hulce sounds familiar, it’s probably not because he’s one of the Tony Award-winning producers of the musical Spring Awakening. He rings that familiarity bell because he h…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:43PMThessaly Lerner stars in The Ukulady’s Pony Show, part of the 17th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival. Photo by Lennon And here Edinburgh, Scotland thinks it’s got a great fringe fe…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:34PMTuesday, September 2, 2008
Oakland’s TheatreFirst, the intrepid troupe led by founding artistic director Clive Chafer that has managed some fantastic shows in the face of an impossibly nomadic existence, is moving i…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:38PMYou know you’ve achieved a certain level of success when you’re on line, waiting to get into an exclusive magazine party, and Spike Lee sticks his head out the door, sees you waiting and…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:25PMA quick Labor Day trip to New York allowed me a little long overdue catching up on some Broadway shows. I had three slots available, and I filled them all with musicals. Yes, I could have se…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:28AMMonday, September 1, 2008
Writing about his high school experience proved therapeutic for playwright Itamar Moses, a Berkeley native whose Yellowjackets has its world premiere this week at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:38PMTuesday, August 26, 2008
Let’s go watch a Chazz Palminteri movie … with Chazz Palminteri! While the venerable movie and stage actor is in town with his one-man show, A Bronx Tale (Sept. 23-Oct. 19 at the Golden …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:04PMDuncan Sheik (left) and Steven Sater say they hope to open their new musical, The Nightingale, at American Conservatory Theater. Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Could San Francisco be the…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:35PMSunday, August 24, 2008
We here at TheaterDogs are about to kick into high gear with Spring Awakening, which officially kicks off its national tour (after a “preview” run in San Diego) Sept. 4 (official opening…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:08PMOpened Aug. 23, 2008 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Beth Glover (left) is Big Edie and Elisa Van Duyne is Little Edie as they perform “Peas in a Pod” in Act 1 of …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:28PMSaturday, August 23, 2008
If you’re a fan of Showtime’s “Weeds,” as I have been since the series debuted four seasons ago, you’re probably quite aware of the emergence of Hunter Parrish (right, photo by Joa…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:37PMFriday, August 22, 2008
There aren’t many details yet, but you can check out Sony Pictures’ Web site for “The Hot Ticket” about the final performances of Rent on Broadway being shown in movie theaters aroun…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 07:07PMManoel Felciano, a San Francisco native who used to work at Recycled Records on Haight Street, plays Jan, the central character in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, an ACT production. Phot…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:51PMThursday, August 21, 2008
San Jose Repertory Theatre announced today that Rick Lombardo of Boston’s New Repertory Theatre will be the company’s next artistic director, succeeding the Rep’s long-time director, T…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:15PMNews from the the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the Bay Area’s premiere African-American theater company that has been left homeless by the Academy of Art University’s virtual takeover of …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 08:03PMIdris Ackamoor debuts a fragment of his work-in-progress, Music for One Hand Clapping, as part of Afro Solo’s Black Voices series at The Marsh. Photo by Pat Mazzera Not to be too dramat…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:34PMWednesday, August 20, 2008
Leon Gertzen (left), Louise Chegwidden (center) and Carolyn Doyle whip up some satiric comedy in the Rough and Tumble production of Candide, Len Jenkin’s take on the Voltaire classic. Phot…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:23PMTuesday, August 19, 2008
Beth Glover is Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale in the TheatreWorks production of Grey Gardens, the first since the original closed on Broadway. Photo by David Allen For Beth Glover, Gr…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:53PMMonday, August 18, 2008
The Walt Disney Company never has handled success very well. Surprisingly, abundance of imagination can lead to a hit, then absence of imagination can kill it dead. Look no further than the …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:35PMSunday, August 17, 2008
Check out this short documentary, part of Christopher Coppola’s Project Access Hollywood film festival. It’s about the demise of the wildly popular game Scrabulous, a version of online S…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:08PM 
