A note to readers

After three months on hiatus, Theater Dogs is once again back in action!I was in Sacramento working for an excellent newspaper, but now I'm back in San Francisco and happily on the theater beat once again. At the risk of sounding sappy, can I just say how much I missed it?Oh, I saw some good theater: August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean at Sacramento Theatre Company (starring one of my favorite Bay Area leading ladies, C. Kelly Wright) and Margaret Edson's Wit at the B Street Theatre (starring another favorite Bay Area leading lady, Julia Brothers).And I managed to see a few things in the Bay Area. Couldn't miss Wicked -- leading lady Teal Wicks is as good as I'd hoped she'd be. And Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (the vibrator play) was one of the best things I've seen in a long time. No wonder director Les Waters is taking it to Broadway.But now I'll see as much as I can across our theatrical compass, from Marin down to San Jose, from San Francisco to Walnut Creek.Very happy to be back.Send me theater info, questions, complaints at chiatovich@gmail.com.