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’
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, Caroline Lagerfelt, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jane Anderson, JoBeth Williams, Laurie Metcalf, local theater, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 29 Sep 08 - 1 Comment
`Wicked’ witches swarm Union Square
Archived in the category: David Stone, Idina Menzel, Joe Mantello, Marc Platt, SHN/Best of Broadway, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked, Winnie Holzman, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Sep 08 - 1 Comment
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’
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Sep 08 - 1 Comment
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
Posted by Chad Jones on 25 Sep 08 - 3 Comments
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
Posted by Chad Jones on 23 Sep 08 - 0 Comments
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
Posted by Chad Jones on 22 Sep 08 - 0 Comments
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
Archived in the category: Broadway, Carol Channing, Museum of Performance & Design, Theatre Rhino, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 22 Sep 08 - 1 Comment
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’
Archived in the category: Dave Malloy, Oscar Wilde, Shotgun Players, local theater, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 20 Sep 08 - 2 Comments
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’
Archived in the category: Mark Sargent, Richard Winchester, Varla Jean Merman, local theater, musicals, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 19 Sep 08 - 0 Comments
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’
Posted by Chad Jones on 19 Sep 08 - 0 Comments
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, [...]
