Sunday, 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 04:08PMSaturday, August 16, 2008
Kurt Deutsch didn’t mean to get into the record business. The self-described “total theater guy” grew up in St. Louis going to theater whenever possible (usually at The Muny) and then …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:03PMFriday, August 15, 2008
Felicia Benefield is Mare in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Betting on the Dust Commander, one of three avant garde plays in The Cutting Ball Theatre’s avantGARDARAMA at the EXIT on Taylor. Photos by…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:49PMThursday, August 14, 2008
Stephen Lawson, half of the Canadian duo 2boys.tv, performs in Zona at the New Conservatory Theatre Center Candian duo drags out, lip synchs through twilight `Zona’««« Aaron Pollar…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:27PMWednesday, August 13, 2008
Continues through Aug. 31 at the Bruns Amphitheater in Orinda Annie Purcell is Sonya and Dan Hiatt is Vanya in Cal Shakes’ beautiful, moving production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Photos b…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:09PMTuesday, August 12, 2008
Melissa Gilbert stars as Ma in the Guthrie Theatre’s world-premiere musical adaptation of Little House on the Prairie. Photo by Michal Daniel First a series of beloved, ever-popular books,…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:47PMI never expected, on my recent vacation getaway to Michigan, to find such a treasure trove of beauty and culture. Visiting friends in the Saugatuck/Douglas area on the shores of Lake Michiga…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:58PMMonday, August 11, 2008
Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s season-opening play Yellowjackets, a drama about life at Berkeley High School in the early ’90s, has inspired a free teen journalism summit. Photo by Kevin B…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:00AMSunday, August 10, 2008
The cast of the national tour of The Drowsy Chaperone will raise money for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation Monday, Aug. 11 at Club Fugazi, the home of Beach Blanket Babylon. Photo by Joan…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:14AMSaturday, August 9, 2008
David Kahawaii (left) is JoJo and Carl Danielsen is The Cat in the Hat in the Woodminster Musicals production of Seussical the Musical. Summer used to be a dead time in Bay Area theater. No …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:28AMWednesday, August 6, 2008
There’s no getting around the fact that for more than 40 years now, Dolly Parton has been a bright light of show business. She quickly transcended her beginnings on country radio and corny…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:58PMTuesday, August 5, 2008
Last summer, Dan Hiatt was in three California Shakespeare Theater shows, including The Triumph of Love (above, with Domenique Lozano). This summer he is playing the title character in Cal S…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:06PMMonday, August 4, 2008
Word from the California Shakespeare Theater is that artistic director Jonathan Moscone’s production of An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde has become the company’s biggest box-office hit in…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:00PM“We’re calling it our Bar Mitzvah season not just because the company is run by two Jews,” says Impact Theatre artistic director Melissa Hillman referring to herself and managing direc…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:39PMSunday, August 3, 2008
Opened Aug. 2 at John Hinkel Park, Berkeley Dave Garrett is Pa Ubu (roughly translated as Father Turd) and Carla Pantoja is Ma Ubu in Shotgun Players’ rollicking summer production Ubu for …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:10PMFriday, August 1, 2008
Continues through Aug. 16 at Custom Stage, Off-Market Theatre Benjamin Pither (center, in gown) is Gordon Schwinn, a man who needs a new brain in William Finn’s A New Brain, in a produc…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:13AMThursday, July 31, 2008
The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s annual gala fundraiser, Help Is on the Way 14: Blame It on the Movies, is this Sunday, Aug. 3, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. As usual, t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:15PMWednesday, July 30, 2008
I know some people who have just flipped over the movie version of Mamma Mia! now plaguing movie theaters. I am not among them. Having seen the stage version several times, I knew just what …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:29PMTuesday, July 29, 2008
When Bill Berloni barks, Broadway listens. Or, to be more accurate, when Berloni’s clients bark. Or meow. Or chirp. Berloni is the foremost theatrical animal trainer working on the stage t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:05PMMonday, July 28, 2008
Mountain View’s TheatreWorks will present the first post-Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical Grey Gardens, based on the documentary of the same name about Jacqueline Bouv…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:06PMIs it hot in here or is it just the animals? Crowded Fire Theater Company is holding a fundraiser, and it’s of the hot and steamy variety. Sort of. Playwright Trevor Allen has been working…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:40PMSaturday, July 26, 2008
Last night at Davies Symphony Hall, Bernadette Peters was in a good mood. Her voice was in great shape (and her shape was in GREAT shape). In other words, Peters’ “Summer in the City” …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:53PMFriday, July 25, 2008
When her stint on season two of “American Idol” flared into controversy, Frenchie Davis became infamous. The promising young singer had been kicked off early on because of some risqué p…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:00AMThursday, July 24, 2008
Sarah Farrell (center), with (from left) Mikey Tongko, Joven Calloway, Mike Triolo and Alex Rodriguez sing and dance their way through L. Jay Kuo’s Insignificant Others at Theatre Pier 39.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:02PMOpened July 23, 2008 at the Orpheum Theatre The cast of The Drowsy Chaperone joins stage star Janet Van De Graaff (Andrea Chamberlain, center, leg in air) in the show stopper “Show Off.…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 11:31AMWednesday, July 23, 2008
For a fifth year, some of the best and brightest in the Bay Area theater community will gather in the vicinity of the Yerba Buena Gardens for the annual San Francisco Theater Festival. This …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:19PMSan Francisco’s Rrazz Room has announced its fall schedule, and it’s pretty amazing, especially for theater aficionados. The season opens in September with Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John D…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:57PMTuesday, July 22, 2008
Opened July 21 at American Conservatory Theater Roger Rees performs a soliloquy from Richard II, one of many incredible moments in What You Will, a solo show about all things Shakespeare at …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:07PMThe three remaining girls (from left), Bailey, Autumn, Rhiannon, face the judges one last time. B’bye Rhiannon. Photos courtesy of MTV. Well let’s just be thankful it’s over. MTV’s r…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:57AMMonday, July 21, 2008
Bernadette Peters’ career is going to the dogs. No, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway diva has not hit the skids. She’s just more interested in dogs at the moment than the stage. …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:03PMSunday, July 20, 2008
Such a busy weekend so full of entertainment treats. Here’s a quick recap. Friday night, on a whim, I headed down to the Octavia Lounge for the official cabaret debut of homegrown diva Car…
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