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Review: `The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)’

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Posted by Chad Jones on 02 Nov 08 - 0 Comments

Some of the enthusiastic cast members of Berkeley Playhouse’s The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) are (clockwise from top right) Nkechi, Alona Bach, Tom Darci and Niko Darci-Maher. Photo by Kevin Berne.

 
Berkeley Playhouse scores big fun with energetic `Giant’««««

In only its second full production, Berkeley Playhouse is proving itself to be a joyously reliable practitioner of [...]

Review: `Evil Dead: The Musical’

Archived in the category: Evil Dead The Musical, Jon Tracy, Sam Raimi, Willows Theatre, musicals, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 21 Jun 08 - 2 Comments

Continues through July 26 at the Campbell Theatre, Martinez

Michael Scott Wells and Alexandra Creighton scare off Candarian demons in Evil Dead: The Musical, a Willows Theatre production at the Campbell Theatre in Martinez. Photos courtesy of Willows Theater.
Singing and bleeding in horror musical«« ½

Adding the words “the musical” to a title is, in some cases, [...]

In the director’s chair with: Jon Tracy

Archived in the category: Gabe Marin, Jon Tracy, Joy Carlin, SF Playhouse, Susi Damilano, Tracy Letts, Willows Theatre, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 07 May 08 - 1 Comment

The cast and crew of SF Playhouse’s Bug. Director Jon Tracy is on the right in the hat.
Ask Jon Tracy what’s bugging him these days, and the answer is easy: Bug.

Tracy is directing the Bay Area premiere of the play, by recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) for SF Playhouse. The production begins [...]