The Chronicle reports on our 2008-2009 Season announcement.
We’ll have lots more information on all these shows, coming soon.

Our production of A Streetcar Named Desire begins rehearsals today. This afternoon, the actors had their first meeting with dialogue coach Lynne Soffer, checked out the set design, and talked about the play with director Jasson Minadakis. There are some familiar faces (including Lance Gardner from Lovers & Executioners) and some new folks [...]

The Canal Project reached its completion this weekend with workshop performances at Pickleweed Community Center in the Canal district of San Rafael. Here’s playwright Marisela Treviño Orta from her blog:
I’ve been working on this project for more than a year, and I have to say the workshop production was my favorite part of the [...]

Two weeks ago, we opened up enrollment for our 2008 Summer Camps. Response has been tremendous — so tremendous that both of our Youth Camps have already completely sold out. We have a waiting list going, and it’s likely that at least a few people on the waiting list will get in. [...]

We had two workshop performances of American Triage (a new play about the immigration raids in San Rafael’s Canal District) over the weekend. We held a reception after the first performance, and a great Q&A session after the second. Dr. JuanCarlos Arauz from The Canal Alliance participated in the Q&A, answering questions about [...]

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Her second play, “American Triage,” still in workshop, came out of the experience of working with these students – particularly after the immigration raids last year, as they took place during the period she was teaching the class.
“I really got to really know these kids and their families,” Treviño Orta says. “When MTC first approached [...]

Actor Nicole Disson on American Triage, which opens this Saturday night at 7:30pm:
We are now in in our final stages of rehearsals, where all the different elements piece together, including sound, costumes, set, … fun to watch the pages come to life, and to take part in the process. At today’s rehearsal I [...]

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Lin’s play echoes many of the problems America now faces in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the general war against terror. With powerful gut-wrenching performances by the entire cast, said Saïd gives an authentic view of war and its traumatic aftermath.

Haven’t seen it yet? Get your tickets now.

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Q: Does it resonate with today’s headlines?
A: Absolutely. It constantly resonates with Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan – anywhere where there’s disparity in the definition of whether one is a terrorist or a freedom fighter. For example, our forefathers thought of themselves as American revolutionaries. But the British said we didn’t fight fair, that we [...]

We’ve just announced our plans for our 2008 MTC Conservatory Summer Camps. We’ll be back on site at MTC this year (last year we held the camps at Tam High because our roof was being fixed). The shows are a musical adaptation of the children’s book The Stinky Cheese Man (for grades 2-6), [...]