Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:17PMSaturday, July 19, 2008
"I'm so old people will say, `Is he still alive?'"
That's Roger Rees exaggerating people's response to his arrival in San Francisco with his one-man show What You Will, an evening of Shake…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:01AMFriday, July 18, 2008
Continues an extended run through July 27 at Theatre Rhinoceros Michael Vega is Ishi and Chris Libby is a settler attempting to cash in on the State of California’s reward of $5 for an Ind…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:49PMThursday, July 17, 2008
Four years ago, Cutting Ball Theater continued its search for the edge that cuts with the first Avant GardARAMA!, a festival of short, experimental plays. The quest for cutting-edge theater …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:54PMWednesday, July 16, 2008
Producer Randy Taradash announced today that the off-Broadway hit bare will have its Bay Area premiere in 2009 in a San Francisco theater to be determined. “I’m thrilled that Bay Area au…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:26PMKimberly King (with Cassidy Brown as Father Flynn) plays the stern Sister Aloysius in the TheatreWorks production of Doubt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by John Patrick Shanley. Photos b…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:09PMTuesday, July 15, 2008
Tony Award-winning singer/actress Idina Menzel once was Wicked. Now she’s going viral. Menzel, who is on a concert tour promoting her most recent solo album, “I Stand,” received a fan …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:47PMOpened July 14, 2008 at Traveling Jewish Theater (show moves to the Ashby Stage Aug. 15-31) Juliet Tanner plays the title character in The Listener, a world-premiere play by Liz Duffy Ada…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:02PMWe’re getting so close to the end of MTV’s “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods” that I’d like to just predict the winner and save us all the ridiculous drama. Ba…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:54AMMonday, July 14, 2008
Monty Python’s Spamalot is coming to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre in April 2009 as part of the Best of Broadway season. Photos by Carol Rosegg Prepare to eat ham and jam and Spam …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:00AMSaturday, July 12, 2008
Tickets for the launch of the Spring Awakening national tour go on sale Sunday, July 20. The tour of the eight-time Tony Award-winning rock musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater kicks off…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:37AMFriday, July 11, 2008
Continues through Sept. 20 at SF Playhouse Lauren English dons a brunette bob wig as Sally Bowles singing the title song in the SF Playhouse production of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret. Photos …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:13PMThursday, July 10, 2008
[show’s dates have changed since original posting: Previews begin May 15, opening is May 20 and closing is June 28] Local playwright Amy Freed (above) will collaborate once again with dire…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:47PMOpened July 9, Curran Theatre The national tour of A Chorus Line features a cast that can dance, but the singing and acting is, to say the least, spotty. Photos by Paul Kolnik On se…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:57PMWednesday, July 9, 2008
Not only is Pixar’s WALL-E an extraordinary movie – it’s also, in its strange way, a paean to musical theater. You just don’t head into a computer-animated film set in the 2100s to f…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:01PMTuesday, July 8, 2008
There they are, the five finalists in MTV’s “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods.” They are, from left, Rhiannon, Bailey, Natalie, Lauren and Autumn. Someone please m…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:05PMMonday, July 7, 2008
The national tour of the Tony Award-winning Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater musical Spring Awakening is growing ever closer. Performances begin Sept. 4 at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre as part …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:44PMSunday, July 6, 2008
Opened July 5, Bruns Memorial Amphitheater, Orinda Julie Eccles is Gertrude Chiltern and Stacy Ross is Laura Chevely in California Shakespeare Theater’s production of An Ideal Husband by O…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:40PMSaturday, July 5, 2008
Opened July 4 in Dolores Park The cast of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Red State includes (from left) Lisa Hori-Garcia, Lizzie Calogero, Robert Ernst and Adrian C. Mejia. Photos by Davi…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:19PMFriday, July 4, 2008
NEWS FLASH: Show has been extended through Aug. 31!!! Brandon Finch (left) is Albert, a lonely gay teen about to find love with the help of his “fairy godmother” (Scott Phillips) in t…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:39PMEW.com reports that filmmaker Spike Lee is so taken with Stew’s Broadway musical Passing Strange that he has raised money to film the show concert style. Here’s the short news item: Spik…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:37PMThursday, July 3, 2008
We have a tradition here at Theater Dogs, and that is to commemorate the Fourth of July by celebrating the greatest American art form: the musical. It was an interesting year on Broadway …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 05:35PMWednesday, July 2, 2008
Elijah Alexander starred as Jack Tanner in California Shakespeare Theater’s Man and Superman last summer. This year he’s starring in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. Photo by Kevin B…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:02PMTuesday, July 1, 2008
So now viewers aren’t the only ones hurling during MTV’s “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods.” We’re down to six girls at the start of this week’s episode, and…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:42PMSunday, June 29, 2008
San Francisco’s unique musical theater company, 42nd Street Moon, kicks off its 16th season with a celebration of Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Charles Strouse on Monday, June 30: Y…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:54PMSaturday, June 28, 2008
Before we get started, here’s a taste of A Chorus Line with current cast member Mario Lopez and the cast on “Dancing with the Stars” If you think you’re “uncommonly rare, very uniq…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:06PMFriday, June 27, 2008
Andrea McArdle, famous for being a Broadway belter at age 12, swears she’s going to write a book. “But I need to wait for a few people to go to a happier place,” she says. I, for one, …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 03:01AMThursday, June 26, 2008
Variety reports that Andrew Lippa’s musical version of The Addams Family is moving full steam ahead. In a closed reading in August, Gomez will be played by Nathan Lane (not often you think…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 12:18PMWednesday, June 25, 2008
I share the above photo not because I have a huge ego and want the world to know I had a few quality moments with Dame Julie Andrews, one of my favorite people on the planet. Wait – that�…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 04:54PMTuesday, June 24, 2008
The girls meet the dogs on MTV’s “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods.” Photo courtesy of MTV. It’s Week 4 on MTV’s “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:57PMMonday, June 23, 2008
Tony Award-winning Minneapolis-based theater company Theatre de la Jeune Lune will cease to exist as we know it. And those of us in the Bay Area know it thanks to Jeune Lune’s frequent col…
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