From the ashes of the American Musical Theatre of San Jose rises a whole new series bringing Broadway tours to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, and it’s called Broadway San Jose. A Nederlander Presentation, part of the national Nederlander Organization, is the producing agency that will bring in the shows starting in [...]
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Broadway San Jose announces inaugural season
Archived in the category: Avenue Q, Broadway San Jose, Legally Blonde, Spamalot, Spring Awakening, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 09 Jun 09 - 0 Comments
Reviving Muppet mania: Next stop Broadway?
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Oct 08 - 0 Comments
I’m always surprised when theater pops up in pop culture, more specifically, in popcorn movies. Sitting at home, I was thoroughly enjoying Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a comedy written by and starring Jason Segel (of TV’s “How I Met Your Mother” – an admirable sitcom set in New York but none of the 20somethings ever goes [...]
K-K-K-Katie Holmes on Broadway, `Tales’ in tune
Archived in the category: Armistead Maupin, Arthur Miller, Avenue Q, Ben Affleck, Jason Moore, Jeff Whitty, Jennifer Garner, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah, Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters, Tales of the City, Tom Cruise, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Mar 08 - 1 Comment
Yes, Katie Holmes, late of Dawson’s Creek, she of the couch-jumping husband, the ever-changing cute hairdos and the impossibly adorable Suri parentage, is being rumored to be heading to Broadway for a revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons starring John Lithgow and Dianne Weist. Ms. Holmes must have had a conversation with Jennifer Garner, [...]
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 [...]
Make `ShowBusiness’ your business
Archived in the category: Avenue Q, Broadway, Caroline, or Change, DVDs, Idina Menzel, Jeff Marx, Rosie O'Donnell, Taboo, Tony Awards, Wicked, backstage, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 12 Oct 07 - 0 Comments
One of the most interesting documentaries of the year had nothing to do with health care or Iraq. ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway sort of slipped in and out of theaters without a whole lot of fanfare, which is really too bad because director Dori Berinstein has created a fascinating glimpses behind the scenes of [...]
It’s OK if Sen. Craig is gay
Posted by Chad Jones on 30 Aug 07 - 1 Comment
Gotta love the YouTube. Some genius mashed up the song “If You Were Gay” from Avenue Q and paired it with disgraced Sen. Craig’s emphatic declaration that he is not gay. Have a look. (This is a clip featuring the original Broadway cast, by the way). The San Francisco production of Avenue Q closes Sunday. [...]
`Q’ BLOGGERS: Nicky & Rod
Archived in the category: Avenue Q, Joan Rivers, SHN/Best of Broadway, backstage, local theater, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 17 Aug 07 - 0 Comments
As our week of Avenue Q guest blogging comes to a close, we get not one but TWO bloggers today. Again, many thanks to the touring Q company for playing along and to the kind folks at SHN/Best of Broadway for setting the guest bloggers in motion. First up is Nicky, an easy-going, well-intentioned dude [...]
`Q’ BLOGGERS: Kate Monster
Posted by Chad Jones on 16 Aug 07 - 0 Comments
This week is going by too quickly as Theater Dogs welcomes guest bloggers from the touring production of Avenue Q at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre. Today we hear from Kate Monster, the well-coiffed bundle of fur who has a thing for her neighbor, Princeton, and whose dream is to open a school for young monsters. [...]
`Q’ Bloggers: Christmas Eve
Archived in the category: Avenue Q, Broadway, SHN/Best of Broadway, backstage, local theater, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 15 Aug 07 - 0 Comments
While the fleshy and fuzzy folks who live on Avenue Q are in town, they’re dropping by Theater Dogs this week to blog a little about being in the Bay Area. Today we hear from Christmas Eve, who, with her fiance Brian, is one of three humans who live with fuzzy men, strippers and monsters [...]
`Q’ BLOGGERS: Trekkie Monster
Archived in the category: Avenue Q, Broadway, SHN/Best of Broadway, backstage, local theater, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Aug 07 - 2 Comments
This week on Theater Dogs, we’re joined by guest bloggers from the puppet and human cast of Avenue Q at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre. Please welcome today’s blogger, Trekkie Monster, a resident of Avenue Q who spends a great deal of time surfing the Internet (for porn) and enjoying all (the porn) it has to [...]
