Chad Jones’ Theater Dogs

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, the roster of performers is impressive. Among the locals you’ll find singing songs from movies (both great movie musicals and pop songs [...]

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 I was in for. I enjoyed the show on stage, especially the first time, when the show made its U.S. premiere [...]

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 today. If you’ve seen an animal on stage in the last 32 years, chances are pretty good Berloni had something to do with it. His very first [...]

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 Bouvier Kennedy’s quirky, reclusive relatives.

The cast has been announced, and in the role that won Christine Ebersole (above) a Tony on Broadway is Beth Glover, a veteran of touring [...]

Is 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 on a play, Zoo Logic, about his experiences as an employee of the San Francisco Zoo. As part of his research, he [...]

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” concert was a triumph.

Last time Peters was in town, she was performing a theatrical concert at the Orpheum Theatre to promote her [...]

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 photos found on the Internet.

The singer managed to turn that infamy into hard-won fame through sheer hard work and by maintaining a focus on what [...]

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. Photo by Edward Casati, Unbound Photography
The homegrown musical that has been called “Will & Grace meets Sex in the City” has reached a milestone.
L. Jay [...]

Opened 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.” The Tony Award-winning musical is at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. Photos by Joan Marcus

Shadows hover over daffy, delightful `Drowsy’««« ½

Musicals don’t [...]

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 one-day extravaganza on Sunday, July 27, features 100 shows on 14 stages from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. You’ve got your plays, [...]