Theatergoing in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of life’s treats. No question about it. If you love theater, this is a wonderland. In this devastating economic climate, may that only hold true for the next couple of years. There is so much good theater here, so many incredible actors, writers, directors and crafts [...]
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Theater by the Bay: Best of 2008
Archived in the category: Aaron Loeb, American Conservatory Theater, Ann Randolph, Banana Bag & Bodice, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cal Shakes, Campo Santo, Carey Perloff, Encore Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, Magic Theatre, SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Theatre Rhino, TheatreWorks, Thick Description, Tom Stoppard
Posted by Chad Jones on 23 Dec 08 - 2 Comments
Review: `Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party’
Archived in the category: Aaron Loeb, Bill English, Chris Smith, Mark Anderson Phillips, Michael Phillis, SF Playhouse, Velina Brown, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Dec 08 - 1 Comment
The cast of Aaron Loeb’s Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party performs an elaborate opening number in the SF Playhouse world-premiere production. Photos by Zabrina Tipton. History, politics, utter zaniness collide in Honest Abe’s `Dance Party’««« ½ Aaron Loeb’s world-premiere play Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party at the SF Playhouse embraces adventurous theatricality. [...]
SF Playhouse’s `Big Gay Dance’ season
Archived in the category: Aaron Loeb, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, SF Playhouse, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 21 May 08 - 1 Comment
It’s worth reporting SF Playhouse’s 2008-09 season just for the name of the second show of the season. Check it out: Shining City by Conor McPherson (Oct. 1-Nov. 22) – Wonderful Irish playwright’s modern-day ghost story. Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party by Aaron Loeb (Dec. 3-Jan. 17) -This new comedy by local scribe Loeb [...]
2007 theater Top 10
Archived in the category: Aaron Loeb, Avenue Q, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cal Shakes, Charles Shaw Robinson, Elijah Alexander, Emma, George Bernard Shaw, Jeff Marx, Jonathan Moscone, Lorri Holt, Magic Theatre, Mary Zimmerman, Paul Gordon, Rebecca Gilman, SF Playhouse, SHN/Best of Broadway, Susannah Schulman, TheatreWorks, Word for Word, backstage, local theater, musicals, plays, playwrights, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Dec 07 - 5 Comments
I can always tell whether a theater year has been good or not so good when I sit down to hammer out my Top 10 list. If I can summon five or more shows simply from memory, it’s a good year. This year’s entire list came almost entirely from memory (which is a feat in [...]
Review: `First Person Shooter’
Posted by Chad Jones on 07 May 07 - 1 Comment
Opened May 5, 2007 at SF Playhouse SF Playhouse’s sharp `Shooter’ targets violence, video games three [1/2] stars Current, vital We love tidiness in our news. The worse the news, it seems, the less we want to think about it, so we welcome a hasty generalization here, a rush to place blame there. Stories become [...]
Loeb loads `Shooter’
Archived in the category: Aaron Loeb, SF Playhouse, backstage, local theater, plays, playwrights, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 04 May 07 - 1 Comment
Playwright Aaron Loeb is what you might call multitasking. He has a 16-month-old daughter, Talitha Jane; he just moved from Oakland to Berkeley; he’s readying his play First Person Shooter for its world premiere Saturday at the SF Playhouse; he has a short play in the Best of PlayGround festival coming up; and he’s just [...]
