TOP: Ralph and Myron (l-r, Patrick Russell and Charles Dean) have a father-and-son talk as Moe (back, Rod Gnapp) listens in Aurora Theatre Company’s production of Awake and Sing! Photo by David AllenBOTTOM: Playwright D.H.H. (Pun Bandhu, left) takes a lesson on the American dream from his father, H.Y.H. (Francis Jue, right) in the Bay [...]
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Fathers and sons: Aurora’s Awake and TheatreWorks’ Yellow
Archived in the category: Aurora Theatre Company, Charles Dean, Clifford Odets, David Henry Hwang, Francis Jue, Joy Carlin, TheatreWorks, local theater, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Aug 09 - 2 Comments
Beth Wilmurt goes `Boating’ in Berkeley
Archived in the category: Art Street Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Beth Wilmurt, Danny Wolohan, Gabe Marin, Joy Carlin, Mark Jackson, Shotgun Players, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 10 Jun 09 - 0 Comments
You’ve heard about monsters being unleashed and wreaking havoc in New York? Well, Beth Wilmurt was just such a monster.
The San Francisco-based actor played a ferocious dragon in the final scenes of Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, the Shotgun Players/Banana Bag & Bodice musical that headed to New York after its award-winning birth in [...]
Aurora announces 18th season
Archived in the category: Aurora Theatre Company, Barbara Damashek, Barbara Oliver, Henrik Ibsen, Joel Drake Johnson, Joy Carlin, Neil LaBute, Tom Ross, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 01 Apr 09 - 1 Comment
Aurora Theatre Company artistic director Tom Ross announced today his Berkeley company’s 18th season, which stems from the theme “Family and Fortune.” In addition to classics and newer works, the season includes a world premiere by Joel Drake Johnson (pictured at right).
The season opens in August with Clifford Odets’ 1935 Awake and Sing, directed by [...]
Gabe Marin exorcises Aurora’s devilish `Disciple’
Archived in the category: Aurora Theatre Company, Barbara Oliver, Dan Hiatt, Gabe Marin, George Bernard Shaw, Joy Carlin, Kimberly King, Magic Theatre, SF Playhouse, Stacy Ross, Thick Description, Traveling Jewish Theatre, local theater, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 30 Oct 08 - 0 Comments
One of the great things about Bay Area theater is watching local actors grow into greatness.
They may or may not strike off to find fortune and fame in New York or Los Angeles, or they may choose to stay here and continue doing as much good work as they can.
The Aurora Theatre Company’s next show, [...]
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 [...]
Little stage on the prairie
Posted by Chad Jones on 06 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
I was in the lobby at SF Playhouse for an opening a couple weeks ago, and while milling through the crowd, I heard a voice that zinged me straight back to childhood.
There I was, 8 years old, glued to the television while Ma, Pa, Mary and Laura (aka Half-Pint) attempted to make a life for [...]
Theater review: `Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge’
Posted by Chad Jones on 07 Dec 07 - 0 Comments
SF Playhouse serves up a Cratchit-y Christmas
three stars Holiday hilarity
Gladys Cratchit is not having a merry Christmas.
Her husband, Bob, is a sap, a boob and a goody-goody. She has 21 starving children — including Tiny Tim, whom she refers to as a crippled idiot — and not an ounce of maternal concern.
There will be [...]
