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The long, long legs of Daddy Long Legs

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Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Jan 10 - 3 Comments

`Emma’ still singing

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Posted by Chad Jones on 17 Apr 08 - 0 Comments

Paul Gordon’s musical version of Emma, which Bay Area audiences turned into TheatreWorks’ highest-grossing production in its 38-year history, continues its merry matchmaking.
Cincinnati Playhouse and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis are co-producing Emma, and TheatreWorks founding artistic director, Robert Kelley will be at the helm, just as he was for the Mountain View production.
The [...]

I can always tell whether a theater year has been good or not so good when I sit down to hammer out my Top 10 list. If I can summon five or more shows simply from memory, it’s a good year. This year’s entire list came almost entirely from memory (which is a feat in [...]

Review: `Emma’

Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Aug 07 - 0 Comments

Opened Aug. 25 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

TheatreWorks’ Emma charms, delights in world premiere musical adaptation
three [1/2] stars A match well made
Oh the pain of being an eligible bachelor in a Jane Austen novel. All the single women claw at you like cats at a scratching post, and everyone in the [...]

Making `Emma’ sing

Posted by Chad Jones on 24 Aug 07 - 0 Comments

Here’s how Jane Austen describes the title character of her novel Emma:
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Austen goes on to [...]

Jane Austen, Thronton Wilder, Tony Kushner and Golda Meir will all be there…sort of.
Robert Kelley, the founding artistic director of Mountain View’s TheatreWorks has just announced his company’s 38th season.
Unlike many theaters around the Bay Area, TheatreWorks begins its season in the summer, and this year, Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man, the story of deformed [...]