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 [...]
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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
`August’ in Pawhuska, OK, or the joys of family drama
Archived in the category: Estelle Parsons, Paul Vincent O'Connor, SHN/Best of Broadway, Shannon Cochran, Tracy Letts
Posted by Chad Jones on 17 Aug 09 - 1 Comment
Shannon Cochran (left) is eldest daughter Barbara and Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons is Violet, her drug-addled mother, in the national Broadway tour of August: Osage County, running through Sept. 6 at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. Photo by Robert J. Saferstein Where have all the family dramas gone and why did they become [...]
E.M. Lewis wins major theater award
Archived in the category: American Theatre Critics Association, E.M. Holmes, Lee Blessing, Tracy Letts, awards, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 05 Apr 09 - 1 Comment
The American Theatre Critics Association has selected E.M. (Ellen) Lewis’ Song of Extinction to receive the 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg /ATCA New Play Award. The announcement was made April 4 at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The award includes a plaque and a cash prize of $25,000 [...]
Missing the Tonys
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, In the Heights, Passing Strange, Patti LuPone, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, Steppenwolf Theatre, Stew, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Uncategorized, musicals, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 16 Jun 08 - 1 Comment
For the last four days I’ve been in Ashland, Ore., reviewing shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the San Francisco Chronicle (more on that later), and while the Tonys were on Sunday night, I was at the opening of a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Of course I’ll watch the [...]
Ramping up to the Tony Awards
Archived in the category: A Chorus Line, Broadway, Disney, In the Heights, Laurie Metcalf, Mario Lopez, Mel Brooks, Passing Strange, Patrick Stewart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Little Mermaid, The View, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Whoopi Goldberg, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, awards, musicals, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 11 Jun 08 - 1 Comment
This Sunday, the Tony Awards will be handed out. Here’s what you need to know (and get busy organizing your Tony party — we’ve got to get those dismal ratings out of the basement so CBS will continue broadcasting the darn things). For the first time, there will be pre-ceremony Tony Concert chock full of [...]
SHN/Best of Broadway’s new season
Archived in the category: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Drew Barrymore, Ever After, Grease, Kathleen Marshall, SHN/Best of Broadway, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Phantom of the Opera, Tracy Letts, Wicked, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 10 Jun 08 - 2 Comments
Megan Hilty (left) as Glinda and Eden Espinosa as Elphaba from the original LA company of Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus Old friends, new winners mark 30th anniversary season Carole Shorenstein Hays and Robert Nederlander’s new SHN/Best of Broadway season marks a milestone: 30 years of bringing Broadway to the Bay Area. The new season, [...]
Review: ‘Bug’
Archived in the category: Gabe Marin, SF Playhouse, Susi Damilano, Tracy Letts, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 15 May 08 - 0 Comments
At The SF Playhouse through June 14 Susi Damilano is Agnes and Gabriel Marin is Peter in Tracy Letts’ Bug at the SF Playhouse. Photos by Zabrina Tipton. It sure is fun to watch an audience squirm. It’s even more fun to be part of that squirming audience. Tracy Letts’ Bug, now at the [...]
Tony, Tony, Tony!
Archived in the category: Broadway, In the Heights, Passing Strange, Stephen Sondheim, Tom Stoppard, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Xanadu, awards, musicals, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 13 May 08 - 1 Comment
Tony Award nominations are out today. Here’s how it shook out: BEST PLAY: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard The Seafarer by Conor McPherson The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow BEST MUSICAL: Cry-Baby In The Heights Passing Strange Xanadu BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL: Cry-Baby by Mark O’Donnell and [...]
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 [...]
Letts’ bittersweet Pulitzer
Posted by Chad Jones on 07 Apr 08 - 0 Comments
News came down from on high today that Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, currently on Broadway, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The Chicago playwright and actor is the author of Man from Nebraska (a Pulitzer contender) Bug (also a movie starring Ashley Judd) and Killer Joe, a hit for Marin Theatre Company that transferred [...]
