Chad Jones’ Theater Dogs

UPDATED 5:45 p.m., April 29, 2009
The rumors have been swirling for days that the Post Street Theatre and the Marines Memorial Theatre are closing down.
Roberto Friedman in the Bay Area Reporter reported that the most recent Post Street show, the ballroom dance extravaganza Burn the Floor, would be heading to Broadway but added: “Uncorroborated word [...]

Dame Edna warbles her way through songs and insults audience member like nobody’s business in her new show, Dame Edna: Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour, at San Francisco’s Post Street Theatre. Photo by kevinberne.com

Familiar shtick hobbles grand Dame’s latest outing«« ½

Nobody works an audience like Dame Edna.

Ten years ago, Bay Area audiences [...]

Creative schizophrenia is a common occurrence in show biz. You’ve got actors, writers and sometimes even directors donning different personalities in the name of storytelling and entertainment.

Nowhere was this fascinating split personality more evident than when interviewing comic genius Barry Humphries and his most famous creation, Dame Edna Everage.

The goal was to talk to creator [...]

NOW CLOSING JUNE 29

Musical theater turns magical – somewhat«« ½ Flash, bang, wallop

Darren Romeo is many things over the course of his 90-minute magic and music show with the cumbersome title.

He’s a magician, as promised, and a singer, as promised. He’s also, as the title reminds us, the protégé of master Vegas magicians Siegfried [...]

One of the first things Darren Romeo wants you to know is that yes, his name is really Darren Romeo – Darren Robert Romeo, to be exact. And his first name is a tribute – with a slight spelling change — to his parents’ love of crooner Bobby Darin.

Growing up in East Meadow, N.Y., Romeo [...]

Mega-superstar and truth teller Dame Edna Everage (aka Barry Humphries) is coming back to San Francisco, her spiritual home, and, if the dame is to be believed, the home of her fashion designer son, Kenny, and her lesbian pit bull trainer daughter, Esme.
The International Housewife, Therapist, Gigastar, Fashion Icon, Guru and Swami today proclaimed she [...]

Opened April 2, 2008 at the Post Street Theatre, San Francisco

Connolly unbound: Comedy sets Scot free
3 1/2 stars — Big, bulky laughs
Billy Connolly must tell you something. He simply must.
The Scottish comedian, best known for replacing Howard Hesseman on the sitcom “Head of the Class” or starring (quite admirably) opposite Judi Dench in Mrs. Brown, [...]

Opened Feb. 3, 2008, Post Street Theatre, San Francisco

Shepherd’s charms can’t enliven bleak Widow
Two stars (Light, long)
Cybill Shepherd is moonlighting these days in the thee-ah-tuh.
The movie and TV star, famous for being blonde and beautiful, is doing a brave thing by taking on Curvy Widow, a one-woman show by Bobby Goldman, who points out in [...]

“At this point in my life, I’d rather do the standards. I’m not exactly the hip-hop type.”
So says Freda Payne, the 58-year-old pop/R&B singer best known for her million-selling single “Band of Gold.”
Payne is in San Francisco singing her heart out in Blues in the Night, a jazzy, blues-y revue featuring a bunch of great [...]

opened Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, Post Street Theatre
For fans only: One-man `Star Wars’ has major dork appeal
three stars Geek mythology

Charles Ross is saving the galaxy one geek at a time. I use the word “geek” with love. It takes one to know one.
Ross goes so far as to call himself a “professional geek,” and it’s [...]