Two extraordinary shows are lighting up Bay Area stages, and in each of them, the specter of death hovers in the shadows. In Trevor Allen’s intelligent, compassionate adaptation of Frankenstein at the Thick House, Victor Frankenstein defies death by creating life from dead parts and cowering from the unexpected results. Over at Intersection for the [...]
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It’s alive! Death and theater
Archived in the category: Campo Santo, Gabe Marin, Intersection for the Arts, James Carpenter, Sean San Jose, Trevor Allen, local theater
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Oct 09 - 0 Comments
Theater review: `The Lieutenant of Inishmore’
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Blake Ellis, Danny Wolohan, James Carpenter, Les Waters, Martin McDonagh, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 23 Apr 09 - 3 Comments
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 [...]
Countdown to ACT’s `Carol’
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, Beaver Bauer, Charles Dickens, James Carpenter, Ken Ruta, Sharon Lockwood, Stephen Barker Turner, local theater, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 11 Dec 08 - 7 Comments
James Carpenter (center) is Scrooge in American Conservatory Theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol. Photo by Kevin Berne American Conservatory Theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol is in full swing in downtown San Francisco. Rather than reviewing this holiday perennial, let’s just hit some of the major points. Herewith, in descending order, some [...]
Humbug! Here we come a-`Carol’-ing
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, Charles Dickens, James Carpenter, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 04 Dec 08 - 4 Comments
James Carpenter plays Ebenezer Scrooge “dead seriously.” “It’s just like when you play farce,” Carpenter explains. “You don’t play it funny. You have to invest as fully as you can.” Carpenter, 56, one of the Bay Area’s most revered actors, is now in his third year as Scrooge in American Conservatory Theater’s re-tooled production of [...]
ACT casts `Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ partners up for `Phedre’
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, Anthony Fusco, Carey Perloff, Delia MacDougall, Jack Willis, James Carpenter, Jud Williford, Manoel Felciano, Rene Augesen, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Tom Stoppard
Posted by Chad Jones on 22 Aug 08 - 0 Comments
Manoel Felciano, a San Francisco native who used to work at Recycled Records on Haight Street, plays Jan, the central character in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, an ACT production. Photo by Ashley Forrette Photography With all this buzz about, there must be a new theater season about to start. First up is news from [...]
Review: Aurora’s “The Birthday Party”
Archived in the category: Aurora Theatre Company, Harold Pinter, James Carpenter, Tom Ross, backstage, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 02 Feb 07 - 0 Comments
(opened Feb. 1, 2007) Actors sizzle, plot fizzles in Aurora’s `Birthday Party’ two and 1/2 stars A well-made muddle There’s an old saw about a tree falling in the woods, and if there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a noise — you know the one. Well, what happens when a play [...]
It’s aliiiiive!
Posted by Chad Jones on 25 Oct 06 - 1 Comment
You know it’s a new world of technology when they start doing plays in podcast form. Trevor Allen’s Black Box Theatre Company is celebrating Halloween in a big way. On Monday night, which you might call Halloween Eve, Allen gathers a top-notch cast of Bay Area actors for The Creature, his own version of the [...]
