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A real class act for clown Peter Pitofsky

Under the Teatro ZinZanni spiegeltent on a sunny, breezy Saturday afternoon, the 50-year-old clown leads about a dozen students through an hourlong crash course in how to put a little more joy into the world than you take out of it. In other words, ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Brian Thompson,  Jay Leno,  Mel Brooks,  Lou Costello,  Charlie Chaplin

The best of jest learn from the pros, fans

"There's no better teacher than the audience," he says from his Berkeley home. "That will always be true." The skills an aspiring clown needs to hone, according to Gilkey, include acting, which is something Gilkey learned from another great clown he ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Bill Irwin

Productions worth a trip to Oregon

The trek is even more worth it when there's a show (or two) that should not be missed, and that happens to be the case this season. By Bill Cain. Directed by Bill Rauch. Through Oct. 31 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. If ever there was a play that seemed ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Jul 2009
Related Topics: William Shakespeare,  Anthony Heald

Theater reviews: Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Don Quixote: By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, adapted by Octavio Solis. Directed by Laird Williamson. Through Oct. 10 on the Elizabethan Stage. Much Ado About Nothing: By William Shakespeare. Directed by Kate Buckley. Through Oct. 11 on the Elizabethan ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Jun 2009
Related Topics: William Shakespeare,  Santos, Ltd.,  Miguel de Cervantes,  Anthony Heald

Play examines 8 decades of gay history

"Some Men," which ran off-Broadway two years ago, is now playing in its West Coast premiere at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center. The timing, in the wake of the California Supreme Court's vote to uphold the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  4 Jun 2009

'TuttoDante' with Roberto Benigni

"Dante is choosing me," Benigni, 56, says on the phone from Rome, his English more enthusiastic than precise. "When I read 'Divine Comedy,' it was Dante reading me. Everything is so deeply, so profoundly personal. I feel like he is one of my best ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  24 May 2009
Related Topics: Roberto Benigni,  Academy Awards,  Billy Bob Thornton,  Steven Spielberg,  Sophia Loren

O'Hurley stars as King Arthur in 'Spamalot'

Oh, and he's touring the country in not one, but two Broadway shows this year. In mid-April, he finished a tour of "Chicago" in Washington, D.C. He traded in the tux of slick lawyer Billy Flynn and, fewer than 36 hours later, was wearing the tights of ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 May 2009
Related Topics: Billy Flynn,  Marshall McLuhan

Danny Scheie a leading man at last

A diminutive burst of energy, Scheie, with his distinctively high-pitched, occasionally loud voice, never fails to make an impression onstage, whether as one of Shakespeare's clowns in a California Shakespeare Theater production or as a character actor ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 May 2009

Stein, Williams and Maupin combine for 'Party'

The guests of honor are Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams and Armistead Maupin. Each member of this unlikely trio will have short stories performed on the Rhino stage in an evening dubbed "Three on a Party." Stein's "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" from ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  12 May 2009
Related Topics: Gertrude Stein,  Tennessee Williams,  Armistead Maupin,  Harold Prince,  John Fisher

'Oscar Wao's' stage name: 'Fukú Americanus'

The notion of fukús large and small weighs heavily through "Oscar Wao," the time-bending story of a Dominican Republic family living through the Trujillo dictatorship, starting a new life in New Jersey and raising two wildly different children: Lola, a ...

From CHAD JONES, San Francisco Chronicle,  11 May 2009
Related Topics: Dave Eggers,  Denis Johnson,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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