The San Francisco Chronicle listed our public performances of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as one of the top 5 events for families this weekend. Our first two performances on Saturday were fantastic — the packed house at the 1pm show called the actors back for a second bow. Our last [...]

Our second School Tour production of the season opened today at Marin Primary & Middle School. It’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, performed by two amazing actors playing all the roles. The stage manager provides all the sound effects, and the whole play is under 45 minutes long. We’re performing [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia rehearsals:
Saturday the 21st was our first rehearsal up on our feet. It went really well. Jasson is so much fun to work with. As if the playwright hadn’t given me enough beautiful images to work with, Jasson makes finding movement fun! I didn’t expect him at one point to come [...]

More from Gloria Garayua on Lydia:
It was definitely a successful fourth rehearsal, but…have you ever felt like you’ve made such wonderful strides and yet you couldn’t begin explaining them? Today was that kind of day for me. I’ve dissected my journey so deeply, that I can’t help but feel overwhelmed with the playing possibilities! I’m [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua with more on Lydia rehearsals:
We started dissecting Act 2 today. That was crazy. Act two is so emotional and there is so much that happens here that we basically had to spend the whole day just talking things out, asking questions, and re-reading scenes because new discoveries were coming to us [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua with more on Lydia rehearsals:
We sure did alot of talking today! All very important stuff, however. Time just whizzed by! By talking out loud, everyone was able to make lots of profound discoveries not just about their own characters but about the relationships to each other at different points in act one. [...]

The first day of rehearsal for any production is an exciting day, but for the MTC production of Octavio Solis’ play Lydia, the energy is swirling around the actors and staff in the rehearsal room on the chilly Tuesday morning of February 17.
10-10:45am—The Equity Meeting. The actors and stage manager involved in the MTC production [...]

Gloria Garayua, who is playing Ceci in MTC’s production of Lydia, writes:
The first rehearsal was truly amazing, in an intense sort of way. This is not a light play, it’s a dark and heavy one, but rehearsal was still fun for me. My character, Ceci, takes me on a wild journey. Emotionally, I find her [...]

As recent conversations debating the spiralling economy, consumer confidence, and stimulus packages swirl around, art and culture fades into the background as pressing issues take center stage. But in a recent Perspectives piece on KQED, my good friend Marc Vogl astutely reminds us that culture is a vital and important part of the economy.
To listen, [...]

Over the course of the last three weeks, I have been leaving the office for part of the day on Wednesday and Thursday to make the rounds to several high schools in the Bay Area, mostly Marin County, but also into the East bay. The purpose of my return to high school was to be [...]