I’ve already offered up my Top 10 list of 2007′s best Bay Area theater (see it here). That’s all well and good, but there was way too much good stuff in 2007 to contain in a polite numbered list. What follows, in no apparent order, are some of the year’s most distinctive theater moments (mostly [...]
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Theater moments: Reflections on 2007
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway by the Bay, Cal Shakes, Charles Dickens, Delia MacDougall, Justin Bond, Kenny Mellman, Kiki & Herb, Legally Blonde, Mae West, Magic Theatre, Ratatouille, SHN/Best of Broadway, Shakespeare, TheatreWorks, Thornton Wilder, Z Plays, local theater, musicals, nudity, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 02 Jan 08 - 0 Comments
Hairy Botter: Naked on Broadway
Archived in the category: Broadway, Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter, backstage, nudity, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 12 Sep 07 - 3 Comments
Little Daniel Radcliffe grew up before our eyes in the Harry Potter movies. Earlier this year, he did his utmost to break away from the “boy wizard” image by starring in a London production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus. The headline grabber was that the play _ about a mentally disturbed young man who injures a [...]
The naked truth
Posted by Chad Jones on 09 Jul 07 - 0 Comments
What is it about actors that allows them to be naked onstage? Does that courage come from the same source that lets them be actors in the first place, a mix of confidence, capability and desperate insecurity? Whatever it is, I admire it. I can barely do the swimsuit thing on a public beach. I [...]
Vegas query: Broads or Broadway?
Archived in the category: Cirque du Soleil, Elvis Presley, Jubilee!, Las Vegas, Phantom The Las Vegas Spectacular, Spamalot, The Producers, backstage, musicals, nudity, theater news, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS Calling Las Vegas the Broadway of the West is really pushing it. Sure, Mama Mia! has blossomed into a hit, and it looks like Spamalot and The Phantom of the Opera have a chance of success of long runs in the hot desert, but Chicago, Avenue Q and Hairspray didn’t live [...]
So many Cirques
Archived in the category: Cirque du Soleil, Ka, Las Vegas, Love, O, Zumanity, backstage, nudity, theater news, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS The celebrated Montreal-based circus re-inventors Cirque du Soleil currently has five shows in Vegas (with two more on the way — one, an Elvis-themed show, the other built around magician Criss Angel). The only Cirque show I missed this trip was Mystere, the first one (at Treasure Island), but I saw [...]
Review: `Take Me Out’
Archived in the category: New Conservatory Theatre Center, Richard Greenberg, backstage, local theater, nudity, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 May 07 - 0 Comments
Baseball drama aims for more than just naked truth three stars Play ball! It’s a shame that Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out is known as “the naked baseball play.” Sure, there’s more male nudity than in all the previous Tony Award-winning best plays combined. Sure, the front rows have more than their share of gawkers. [...]
