Above photo: Ashkon Davaran (left) and Casey Jackson in Den of Thieves at SF Playhouse. Photo by Jessica Palopoli. Photo below: Tommy A. Gomez and Lucinda Serrano in Sunsets and Margaritas, a TheatreWorks production at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. Photo by Mark Kitaoka How strange it is to see two wildly different [...]
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Duct tape and yuks: holding comedy hostage
Archived in the category: Bill English, Casey Jackson, Jose Cruz Gonzalea, SF Playhouse, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Susi Damilano, TheatreWorks, Tommy Gomez, local theater, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Mar 10 - 0 Comments
TheatreWorks’ 2010-11 season is a wow!
Archived in the category: Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Laura Schellhardt, TheatreWorks, Tracy Letts, [title of show]
Posted by Chad Jones on 18 Feb 10 - 2 Comments
The original cast of [title of show] included (from left) Heidi Blickenstaff, Hunter Bell (seated), Jeff Bowen (top), and Susan Blackwell. [title of show] will be presented as part of the 2010-2011 season at TheatreWorks. Photo by Carol Rosegg If the new TheatreWorks season only contained[title of show], I would be thrilled. I wanted desperately [...]
The long, long legs of Daddy Long Legs
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Jan 10 - 3 Comments
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
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 [...]
Review: `Dead Man’s Cell Phone’
Archived in the category: Amy Resnick, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Bill English, Jackson Davis, SF Playhouse, Sarah Ruhl, Susi Damilano, TheatreWorks, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 10 May 09 - 3 Comments
Opened May 9, 2009 at SF Playhouse Jackson Davis and Amy Resnick are Dwight and Jean, two lovers awash in a sea of cynicism, stationery and sentiment in Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone at SF Playhouse. Photos by Zabrina Tipton. In Ruhl’s quirky `Phone,’ we get the message««« There are few things more enjoyable, [...]
Delighted by `Ruined,’ Nottage nabs Pulitzer
Archived in the category: Bertolt Brecht, David Henry Hwang, Gina Gionfriddo, In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize, San Jose Rep, TheatreWorks, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 21 Apr 09 - 1 Comment
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Photo by the LA Times Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined, inspired by Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play, about a Congolese brothel run by a woman named Mama Nadi, is about a country torn apart by civil war and about a woman [...]
GrooveLily cancels `Sleeping Beauty’ fundraiser
Posted by Chad Jones on 09 Apr 09 - 2 Comments
The band GrooveLily (Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda and Gene Lewin, seen above in a photo by Leslie Lyons) has had to cancel its benefit concert for TheatreWorks that was scheduled for Friday, April 10. The reason for the cancellation: family emergency. The group still plans to hold the event, a concert production of their theater [...]
Theater review: `Distracted’
Archived in the category: Cassidy Brown, Cynthia Nixon, Jayne Deely, Lisa Loomer, Rebecca Dines, Suzanne Grodner, TheatreWorks, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 08 Apr 09 - 2 Comments
Rebecca Dines is a harried mother desperately trying to figure out how to help her 9-year-old son, who may have Attention Deficit Disorder, in Lisa Loomer’s Distracted, a TheatreWorks production. Photo by Mark Kitaoka Script’s lack of depth distracts in otherwise enjoyable `Distracted’««« Say this for the TheatreWorks production of Distracted by Lisa Loomer: it [...]
Theater by the Bay: Best of 2008
Archived in the category: Aaron Loeb, American Conservatory Theater, Ann Randolph, Banana Bag & Bodice, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cal Shakes, Campo Santo, Carey Perloff, Encore Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, Magic Theatre, SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Theatre Rhino, TheatreWorks, Thick Description, Tom Stoppard
Posted by Chad Jones on 23 Dec 08 - 2 Comments
Theatergoing in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of life’s treats. No question about it. If you love theater, this is a wonderland. In this devastating economic climate, may that only hold true for the next couple of years. There is so much good theater here, so many incredible actors, writers, directors and crafts [...]
GrooveLily’s Milburn, Vigoda tune up a new musical `Story’
Posted by Chad Jones on 02 Dec 08 - 1 Comment
Husband-and-wife team Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda follow up the success of Striking 12 with a new two-person musical, Long Story Short, a TheatreWorks production now at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. The last time we got into the GrooveLily groove was about four years ago when TheatreWorks produced the group’s terrific [...]
