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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. – Oscar Wilde
What a tumultuous year it has been here at Theater Dogs. Thank you for taking the ride.
The news is that I have jumped the fence, from writing about theater to working in theater. As the new communications manager for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, I find that [...]
We already knew that Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical solo show, Wishful Drinking, was headed to Broadway. What we didn’t know was that Fisher will be Drinking at Berkeley Repertory Theatre before heading for New York.
Wishful Drinking, a humorous re-telling of Fisher’s celebrity upbringing as the spawn of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher as well her life [...]
Opened May 20, 2009 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Danny Scheie solidifies his reputation as one of the Bay Area’s best, most original actors as the title character in Amy Freed’s You, Nero on Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Thrust Stage. Photos by kevinberne.com
A funny thing happened on the way to `You, Nero’««« ½
Berkeley Repertory Theatre ends a spectacular [...]
I’ve written before about Bay Area actors whose names, just by appearing on a cast list in a program, excite certain expectations and delights.
Danny Scheie (at right, photo by Henry DiRocco) is one of those actors. When I first started covering theater in San Francisco 17 years ago, he was better known as a director, [...]
Opened May 9, 2009 at SF Playhouse
Jackson Davis and Amy Resnick are Dwight and Jean, two lovers awash in a sea of cynicism, stationery and sentiment in Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone at SF Playhouse. Photos by Zabrina Tipton.
In Ruhl’s quirky `Phone,’ we get the message«««
There are few things more enjoyable, theatrically speaking, than [...]
Another week, another Berkeley Repertory Theatre show going to Broadway.
Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical solo show Wishful Drinking, directed by Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone, will open in October at — where else? — Studio 54, where it runs through Jan. 3. The show is produced by Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Jonathan Reinis, Jamie [...]
The geniuses over at Great Hera!, which translates into my friend and nerd queen Sarah Kuhn, have seen fit to award this humble little theater Web site a Zombie Chicken Award.
It’s our first award of any kind, and we’re bursting with pride. And gratitude.
We’d like to thank the Academy, the Board of Tony voters and [...]
Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced today that the hole in its 2009-10 season has been filled with the West Coast premiere of Coming Home by Athol Fugard (right) directed by Gordon Edelstein, who also staged the show’s world premiere in New Haven. The drama begins previews on the Thrust Stage Jan. 15, opens Jan. 20 and [...]
Opened April 22, 2009 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Roda Theatre, EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 24!
Padraic (Blake Ellis, front center) finds himself in a spot of trouble when he’s set upon by fellow terrorists from his Irish splinter group (from left) Brendan (Rowan Brooks), Christy (Danny Wolohan) and Joey (Michael Barrett Austin) in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant [...]
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is rocking and rolling with Green Day.
After the success of Stew’s Passing Strange, it seems Berkeley Rep can’t get enough of the rock. Already announced for the 2009-10 season was the world premiere of Girlfriend, a stage adaptation of Matthew Sweet’s album of the same name.
Today comes official word that Berkeley Rep [...]
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