Chad Jones’ Theater Dogs

Hello, loyal Theater Dogs readers.
First, I’d like to thank you for bothering to show up here in the first place. I’m so grateful (and have been since the blog started in August, 2006) for your support. I love writing this blog, and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it.
That said, Theater Dogs is going on a [...]

Opened July 4 in Dolores Park

The cast of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Red State includes (from left) Lisa Hori-Garcia, Lizzie Calogero, Robert Ernst and Adrian C. Mejia. Photos by David Allen

Great songs make Mime Troupe’s `Red State’ sing««« 

This Fourth of July, at the premiere of SF Mime Troupe’s latest opus, Red State, petitions were [...]

EW.com reports that filmmaker Spike Lee is so taken with Stew’s Broadway musical Passing Strange that he has raised money to film the show concert style. Here’s the short news item:
Spike Lee is going to Broadway. The Oscar-nominated writer/director will be spending part of his July filming the Tony-winning production Passing Strange. Lee will film [...]

Apparently audiences didn’t take to the mix of show tunes and magic. Darren Romeo: The Voice of Magic, a Siegfried and Roy presentation, was scheduled to run through mid-July but will now play its final performance on June 29 at the Post Street Theatre.
The press release says that anyone holding tickets for a show after [...]

Sure the Bay Area is brimming with homegrown theatrical talent. But there’s always room for a few visitors.

Now here’s something intriguing: a British theater company called 19;29 is setting up shop at The Mosser Hotel to produce the late Sarah Kane’s 1995 work Blasted.
with tabloid hack Ian and epileptic Cate for a radical reassessment of [...]

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 [...]

Opened April 30 at American Conservatory Theater

Pamela Reed (left) as Ella, chucks artichokes out of the fridge across a prone Jack Willis as Weston and toward Jud Williford as her son, Wesley in ACT’s Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard. Photos by Kevin Berne
 
Shepard’s revised `Curse’ still packs punchThree stars Let it bleat

Lambs, [...]

There’s some juicy-good stuff in American Conservatory Theater’s newly announced 2008-09 season.
Here’s the rundown:
Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard (Sept. 11-Oct. 12) — Surprising no one, especially after Stoppard’s visit to ACT in January, the West Coast premiere of this London and New York hit will be directed by ACT artistic director Carey Perloff. The [...]

Woo hoo! I love the smell of Tuna in the theater!
Two pieces of good news here. The first is that Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard have written a fourth Greater Tuna show: Tuna Does Vegas.
And that fourth show — following Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas (one of my favorite shows of all time) [...]

We’ve seen San Francisco’s Best of Broadway announcing shows in recent weeks, then canceling them. The Wiz disappeared, then Whistle Down the Wind, then the new Irish musical Ha’penny Bridge.
Well, when you can’t book a great show, you produce one. At least that’s what SHN/Best of Broadway head Carole Shorenstein Hays is going to do. [...]