Steven Culp, whom you might recognize from his stint as the late Rex Van De Kamp, husband of Martha Stewart-wannabe Brie Van De Kamp on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” doesn’t want me to tell you much about the play he’s in at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater. The play is Blackbird by British playwright David Harrower, [...]
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Culp flies with `Blackbird’
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, David Harrower, Desperate Housewives, Steven Culp, TV, backstage, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 30 Apr 07 - 0 Comments
Theater review: `Measure for Measure’
Archived in the category: Impact Theatre, Shakespeare, backstage, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 28 Apr 07 - 1 Comment
Impact ratchets up vice, vitality in Measure for Measure three stars Well measured By all counts, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a comedy — if you measure comedy not in the Will Ferrell sense but by the more classical definition that has all the major cast members alive at the end of the play. Measure [...]
Wonder Woman sings!
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Apr 07 - 2 Comments
Lynda Carter and I are bonding over the phone. I tell her that for my 11th birthday, my parents took me to the Sahara Reno (no longer there) for a big show. The maitre d’, knowing it was a big day, took us to a table right next to the stage, and we settled in [...]
Bright-eyed joy
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Apr 07 - 0 Comments
In New York recently, I had an amazing experience with Ricky Ian Gordon, an extraordinary composer who has written for the theater (My Life with Albertine, Dream True) and for the opera (his adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath recently premiered at Minnesota Opera). Sitting in the apartment he shares with his boyfriend, Kevin, Gordon [...]
All praise Bob Crowley
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Apr 07 - 2 Comments
In my final discussion of the shows I saw in New York last week, I’d like to simply honor the extraordinary work of Bob Crowley, who until recently, was best known as the go-to guy for mind-blowing production design. I had three Crowley experiences: Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia, Part Two: Shipwrecked, Disney’s Mary [...]
Rufus!
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Apr 07 - 0 Comments
I know Rufus Wainwright is not a theater person…yet. One day he’ll actually write the musical version of Tales of the City, which has been buzzed about for years, and then he’ll justify my including this concert review on a theater blog. Wainwright’s wall of sound concert anticipates `Stars’ release Before he was famous as [...]
`Boys’ bag big bucks in Bay
Posted by Chad Jones on 25 Apr 07 - 0 Comments
Every year around this time, the casts of Broadway shows make a spiel at the end of every performance and solicit audience donations for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which then makes donations to organizations caring and providing for people living with HIV and AIDS as well as to organizations dealing with women’s health issues such [...]
`Blonde’ reborn, `Gardens’ truly gray
Posted by Chad Jones on 25 Apr 07 - 1 Comment
More from last week’s Broadway binge. Couldn’t resist returning to see Legally Blonde at the Palace Theatre to see how the show had evolved since its January out-of-town tryout at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. I’m happy to report that the show is in fantastic shape. Director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell (making his Broadway directorial [...]
Cream of the NYC crop
Archived in the category: Broadway, Duncan Sheik, Spring Awakening, backstage, musicals, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 24 Apr 07 - 1 Comment
Boy was it hard to leave New York City. The day after I arrived, the city was hit by a nor’easter (a nice name for a Category 2 hurricane-type storm) that dumped, so I’m told 5 ½ inches of rain on the city in one day. Most of it, I believe, was in my shoes [...]
Hey, Theater Dogs! I’m off to New York to finally see Spring Awakening (among other shows). Will write all about it when I return next week.
