ACT’s The Quality of Life stars, from left JoBeth Williams, Dennis Boutsikaris and Laurie Metcalf. Photo courtesy of the Geffen Playhouse and Michael Lamont. American Conservatory Theater has announced full casting for its follow-up to the season-opening hit Rock ‘n’ Roll. Jane Anderson’s The Quality of Life, which takes place in the post-fire Oakland Hills, [...]
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Metcalf, Williams, Lagerfelt star in ACT’s `Quality of Life’
`Wicked’ witches swarm Union Square
Green-faced fans of all kinds swarmed San Francisco’s Union Square on Friday, Sept. 26 – Wicked Day in San Francisco, according to a proclamation from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom – at a party celebrating Wicked’s return to the city that gave it birth next January. Photos by J. Lynne McVey San Francisco has [...]
Review: `A Bronx Tale’
Chazz Palminteri excavates his childhood in his one-man show A Bronx Tale, at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre through Oct. 19. Photo by Joan Marcus Chazz Palminteri offers a `Bronx’ cheer««« Watching Chazz Palminteri come to life on stage in his one-man show A Bronx Tale, you realize how limiting movies can be. [...]
C’est magnifique — `Irma La Douce’ gets intimate
Greg MacKellan and has cast and crew for Irma LaDouce are finding out what the expression “the show must go on” really means. A mere week before the first preview performances of the 1950s musical, leading man Steve Rhyne (pictured right with Bill Fahrner (center) and Alison Ewing (left), staring as Nestor Le Fripe, a [...]
Fringe felicitations: Best of winners, encores announced
The cast of “Best of Fringe” Award-winning Lost and Found in the Mission includes (from left) Rowena Richie, Susie Hara, Carol Landes, Joan D. Saunders, Peter Griggs and Jocelyn Truitt. The play won the “best ensemble” award and will receive an encore performance on Friday, Sept. 26. Photo by Borys Prozak They came, they [...]
Workin’! `9 to 5′ hits the stage
Megan Hilty (left), Allison Janney (center) and Stephanie J. Block in the world premiere of 9 to 5: The Musical at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles Music Center. The show opened amid a set snafu and abundant celebrity sightings. Photo by Craig Schwartz What a way to make a livin’! Yes, Dolly Parton, [...]
Dolly Days! Carol Channing returns to San Francisco
SAD NEWS! After I posted the article below, I received a press release stating that for health reasons, Carol Channing has had to cancel her San Francisco performances this week. This is the first time she’s ever had to cancel a performance. “It’s a painful and temporary set back,” Channing said in a statement. “This [...]
Review: `Vera Wilde’
Opened Sept. 19, 2008 at the Ashby Stage Sean Owens (center) is Ocar Wilde in Shotgun Players’ production of Vera Wilde, a musical play by Chris Jeffries. Owens is flanked by (from left) Danielle Levin, Edward Brauer and Tyler Kent. Photos by Jessica Palopoli Shotgun’s revolution in Russian, Irish, musical stripes Oscar Wilde’s [...]
Review: `Jungle Red’
Varla Jean Merman stars as vixenish Crystal Allen in Jungle Red, the musical parody of The Women at the Victoria Theatre. Photo by Austin Young Cat fights and glamour: `Jungle Red’ sharpens its musical claws«« ½ The timing (to say nothing of the gowns) is impeccable. Back in the stone age of the [...]
Chazz hands! Palminteri tells a `Bronx Tale’
If your name was Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri, you might simplify to Chazz, too. Chazz Palminteri has made a career of playing thugs, gangsters, wiseguys and goombahs – maybe those are all the same thing, but with Palminteri, at least you get a little range. There’s serious bad guy, as in Diabolique, the comic bad guy, [...]
