Our Performance Guide for A Streetcar Named Desire is now available for download. Here’s an excerpt; this is scenic designer Robert Mark Morgan talking about his process.
I find visual research to be tremendously important in creating a design. I tell my students at UC Berkeley that it’s the fuel that gets you through [...]

Here’s what sound designer and composer Chris Houston has to say about his process working on Lovers & Executioners:
As a composer for theater, my process begins with the text. Where, When, What, Why, and Who all come into play. Character, period and story rule. And of course, I want to write beautiful [...]

From Light Cue 23, Lucas Krech’s blog about lighting design:
Style is always an interesting aspect of creating a play. I mean there are “Style Plays” where the content is the style. There are plays set firmly in a certain genre, where the style of the piece is integral to the story telling. And then there [...]

Opening night…. its here.. all the months of planning, the orgainizing, building, creating and magic that continually happens even up to the very second the lights hit and the first note of music is played, the first word is said, and the first tense of an actors muscle. It is truly and amazing experience [...]

Hello everyone currently visiting the information super highway. Thanks for checking out my first blog here at MTC. Most blogs you read from me here will speak of MTC production stuff. The kind of whats its, whys its of making the show, the technical aspect of the who shebang. I will [...]