MTC’s new Managing Director Ryan Rilette just moved here from New Orleans. He spoke today at our Afterwords event (following the Sunday matinee preview of A Streetcar Named Desire) about Tennessee Williams and New Orleans.

Tonight is the first preview for A Streetcar Named Desire. Get your tickets now!

Tech for A Streetcar Named Desire was this weekend — previews start Thursday, and opening is a week from tonight. Here’s actor Marjorie Crump-Shears talking about the process:
For those out there in “techno land” who have not worked in theater, let me tell you about the role of the Stage Manager (I am [...]

Clips from rehearsals for A Streetcar Named Desire.

We’re in the last week of the Winter session of our afterschool drama classes with Mill Valley Parks and Rec — we offer weekly classes at Park, Strawberry Point, Old Mill, and Edna Maguire elementary schools in Mill Valley. The Spring session starts next week, and space is available in all our classes. [...]

Ryan Rilette, our new Managing Director, has been working part-time and off-site for a while now, but he is now out of New Orleans and working full-time at MTC.
He joins MTC after six years as Producing Artistic Director at Southern Rep Theatre, the premiere professional theater of New Orleans. During his tenure, Southern Rep underwent [...]

Clips from the second week of rehearsals for A Streetcar Named Desire, with actors Arwen Anderson, Daniel May, and Carrie Paff, and director Jasson Minadakis.

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 [...]

We had a faculty meeting last night for the teachers of our afterschool drama classes. Right now, we’re running classes at six different elementary schools. Some of these classes will be coming to MTC for a shared final session in the Lieberman Theatre, in which they will perform stories that they’ve been working [...]

SceneFest is MTC’s annual acting competition for teens; it happened last night in our Lieberman Theatre. Over 50 teens from six different schools (Miller Creek Middle School, San Marin, San Domenico, Branson, Sonoma Academy, and Marin School of the Arts) participated in acting workshops and performed their scenes and monologues. The teachers and [...]