A man of character, Trevor Allen decided to put his character life behind him. Having detailed what it’s really like to work as a costumed character in Disneyland in his popular solo show Working for the Mouse, Allen made a conscious decision to focus on his burgeoning career as a playwright. Mouse, under the direction [...]
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Warm and fuzzy: `Working for the Mouse’ evolves
Archived in the category: Disney, Disneyland, Impact Theatre, Kent Nicholson, Trevor Allen, local theater, playwrights
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Apr 09 - 1 Comment
Review: `Ching Chong Chinaman’
Archived in the category: Impact Theatre, Lauren Yee, Melissa Hillman, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 06 Sep 08 - 1 Comment
The cast of Lauren Yee’s Ching Chong Chinaman at Impact Theatre includes (from left) Dennis Yen, Arthur Keng, Sung Min Park, Cindy Im and Lisa Kang. Photos by Cheshire Isaacs Impact gets irreverent with Yee’s `Ching Chong’ (three stars) NOTE: Dates added to the run: Monday, Oct. 6 and Wednesday, Oct. 8. The Monday show [...]
Local theater folk in`Scrabulous’ doc
Posted by Chad Jones on 17 Aug 08 - 0 Comments
Check out this short documentary, part of Christopher Coppola’s Project Access Hollywood film festival. It’s about the demise of the wildly popular game Scrabulous, a version of online Scrabble, that was uncerimoniously yanked from Facebook by Hasbro, the (money)makers of Scrabble. It features Impact Theatre artistic director Melissa Hillman and former East Bay Express theater [...]
Impact’s new `Bar Mitzvah’ season: Mazel tov!
Archived in the category: Cheshire Isaacs, Impact Theatre, Lauren Yee, Melanie Marnich, Melissa Hillman, Shakespeare, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 04 Aug 08 - 0 Comments
“We’re calling it our Bar Mitzvah season not just because the company is run by two Jews,” says Impact Theatre artistic director Melissa Hillman referring to herself and managing director Cheshire Isaacs. “This season we’re taking some large leaps forward. It really is a rite of passage for us.” Yes, Impact Theatre, one of the [...]
Theatrical blogosphere
Archived in the category: Cal Shakes, Foothill Music Theatre, High School Musical, Impact Theatre, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Prince Gomolvilas, SHN/Best of Broadway, Tim Bauer, theater web sites
Posted by Chad Jones on 16 Apr 08 - 2 Comments
We here at Theater Dogs love the idea of blogs, obviously. We used to love newspapers, but now, not so much. They’re so…what’s the word?…pagebound. Sure there are good writers at newspapers (really good writers, actually), but on blogs, you can be sassy (snap!), you can be quick and you can add as many photos [...]
Chili scenes of autumn
Posted by Chad Jones on 15 Oct 07 - 3 Comments
On Saturday at San Francisco’s El Rio bar, where a giant cut-out of Carmen Miranda looks down on the back courtyard, Crowded Fire Theatre Company held a festive fundraising chili cook-off. Here are the competitors, who each contributed three chilis — traditional, veggie and “anything goes”: Impact Theatre Fools Fury Playwrights Foundation Crowded Fire (actually [...]
The `fun’ in fundraising
Posted by Chad Jones on 08 Oct 07 - 0 Comments
Upcoming theater fundraisers are going to let you fire it up and throw ‘em down. First up, this Saturday (Oct. 13), Crowded Fire Theatre Company is hosting a Chili Cookoff with foolsFury, Impact Theatre and the Playwrights Foundation. Here’s the beauty part: in addition to a “fan favorite” chili, there will be a “critics choice” [...]
Review: `Sleepy’
Posted by Chad Jones on 09 Sep 07 - 1 Comment
Opened Sept. 7, 2007 Impact scares up some horror in Sleepy three stars Dark, bumpy night Things go bump in the night during Impact Theatre’s Sleepy, and those bumping things are often dead bodies and audience expectations. A collection of five short interconnected plays, Steven Yockey’s Sleepy keeps threatening to be one thing and then [...]
Theater review: `Measure for Measure’
Archived in the category: Impact Theatre, Shakespeare, backstage, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 28 Apr 07 - 1 Comment
Impact ratchets up vice, vitality in Measure for Measure three stars Well measured By all counts, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a comedy — if you measure comedy not in the Will Ferrell sense but by the more classical definition that has all the major cast members alive at the end of the play. Measure [...]
