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Remembering Jack Wrangler

Posted by Chad Jones on 07 Apr 09 - 3 Comments

Word from New York today is that Jack Wrangler, the gay porn star turned musical theater writer, has died after a struggle with lung disease. He was 62 and his survived by his wife, the singer Margaret Whiting, 84.

I had the great pleasure of interviewing Wrangler in late 1992 for the Bay Area Reporter when [...]

Continues through July 26 at the Campbell Theatre, Martinez

Michael Scott Wells and Alexandra Creighton scare off Candarian demons in Evil Dead: The Musical, a Willows Theatre production at the Campbell Theatre in Martinez. Photos courtesy of Willows Theater.
Singing and bleeding in horror musical«« ½

Adding the words “the musical” to a title is, in some cases, [...]

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 production begins [...]

`Evil Dead’ sings!

Posted by Chad Jones on 11 Apr 08 - 0 Comments

Now here’s something that might actually get my lazy butt to finally trek to Martinez and check out the Willows Theatre’s fancy new cabaret theater (the home of every Nunsense show known to God and mankind).
Willows is producing the cult classic EVIL DEAD: The Musical at the Campbell Theatre, 636 Ward Street in Martinez, CA, [...]