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'''Marin Theatre''' is a [[501(c) organization|501(c)3 nonprofit organization]] and professional LORT D [[Regional theater in the United States|regional theater]] located in [[Mill Valley, California]]. Lance Gardner is the company's Artistic Director<ref>{{cite news |last=Janiak |first=Lily |date=October 11, 2023 |title=This outspoken Bay Area actor just got hired to lead Marin Theatre Company |url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/lance-gardner-marin-theatre-company-18417831 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303101709/https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/lance-gardner-marin-theatre-company-18417831 |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |accessdate=May 22, 2024 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref>
[[Image:MTC.JPG|right]]The '''Marin Theatre Company''' is a professional [[regional theatre]] located in [[Mill Valley, California]].


Marin Theatre is home to the 231-seat Boyer Theatre and 99-seat Lieberman Studio Theatre.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.marintheatre.org/history |accessdate=May 22, 2024 |website=Marin Theatre |publisher=}}</ref> Notable past productions include the Bay Area premiere of Matthew Lopez's ''The Whipping Man'', the 10th Anniversary revival of [[Suzan-Lori Parks]]'s [[Pulitzer Prize]] for Drama-winning ''[[Topdog/Underdog]]'', the Bay Area premiere of [[Annie Baker]]'s ''Circle Mirror Transformation'', the West Coast premiere of Keith Huff's ''[[A Steady Rain]]'', the world premiere of Steve Yockey's ''Bellwether'', the world premiere of [[Libby Appel]]'s adaptation of [[Anton Chekhov]]'s ''[[The Seagull]]'', the world premiere of [[Bill Cain]]'s 2011 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/[[American Theatre Critics Association]] New Play Award<ref>{{cite web|title=Bill Cain receives $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for 2011; $7,500 citations for Kathryn Grant and David Bar Katz|url=http://americantheatrecritics.org/homepublic/2011/4/3/bill-cain-receives-25000-steinbergatca-new-play-award-for-20.html|work=American Theatre Critics Association Official Website|publisher=self-published|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> -winning ''9 Circles'', the West Coast premiere of [[Tarell Alvin McCraney]]'s ''In the Red & Brown Water'', and the Bay Area premiere of Bill Cain's 2010 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award<ref>{{cite web|title=CAIN WINS 2010 STEINBERG/ATCA AWARD — MARGULIES AND ZACARÍAS ALSO CITED|url=http://americantheatrecritics.org/homepublic/2010/3/27/cain-wins-2010-steinbergatca-award-margulies-and-zacarias-al.html|work=American Theatre Critics Association Official Website|publisher=self-published|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> -winning ''[[Equivocation]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Production History|url=http://marintheatre.org/productions/production-history/|website=Marin Theatre Company|publisher=|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref>
It was founded as the Mill Valley Center for the Performing Arts by Sali Lieberman and Al White in 1966, with its first twenty seasons produced at the Mill Valley Golf Club. In 1984, it was rechristened the Marin Theatre Company to acknowledge its role as the [[San Francisco|San Francisco Bay Area]]'s most prominent group dedicated to providing the community with works by both established and emerging [[playwright]]s ranging from [[Anton Chekov]], [[Henrik Ibsen]], and [[George Bernard Shaw]] to [[Arthur Miller]], [[David Mamet]], and [[Christopher Durang]]. Presently it offers a season of five classic and contemporary plays and musicals in the Herb & Grace Boyer Mainstage Theatre and a series of staged readings in the Studio Theatre to nearly 40,000 patrons.


==History==
MTC sponsors three full-day, four-week Summer Camps, each devoted to a specific project, featuring theatre training in the morning and rehearsals in the afternoon. Students study [[improvisation]], acting, [[musical theatre]], vocal technique, and [[dance]]. Each camp culminates in a weekend of fully-mounted productions presented to the public.
Marin Theatre was founded in 1966 as the Mill Valley Center for the Performing Arts (MVCPA) when 35 Mill Valley residents came together under the leadership of Sali Lieberman.<ref>{{cite web|title=Milley Awards of Mill Valley: Sali Lieberman and Vera Schultz Biographies|url=http://www.milleyawards.org/bios.html|work=Milley Awards of Mill Valley Official Website|publisher=self-published|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> The nonprofit organization brought arts as diverse as film, theater, poetry, dance and concerts of classical, jazz and folk music to Marin County for a decade. After a number of successful community theater productions, MVCPA began to exclusively produce and present theater performances in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://marintheatre.org/about/history/|website=Marin Theatre Company|publisher=|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref>


The small group overcame many challenges to put on critically acclaimed, award-winning plays in a golf clubhouse, a veterans’ auditorium and several schools and parks. To acknowledge the organization’s specialization in theater arts and expand regional focus, MVCPA changed its name to Marin Theatre Company (MTC) in 1984. This marked the beginning of a period of extraordinary growth. By 1987, MTC had become a professional theater company, opening its own theater complex with onsite administrative offices and joining with other local theaters to negotiate the first regional equity contract in the Bay Area. MTC began a new play program to support emerging American playwrights, launching a New Works developmental workshop and public reading series in 2004 and establishing two new play prizes in 2007. MTC joined the [[League of Resident Theatres]]<ref>{{cite web|title=List of LORT Member Theatres|url=http://www.lort.org/LORT_Member_Theatres.html|work=League of Resident Theatres Official Website|publisher=self-published|accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> and the National New Play Network in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=NNPN Member Theater Listings|url=http://www.nnpn.org/join-us/members|work=National New Play Network Official Website|publisher=self-published|accessdate=18 April 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319010910/http://www.nnpn.org/join-us/members|archivedate=19 March 2013}}</ref> The organization discontinued use of the term "Company" in 2024, and is known today as Marin Theatre.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Janiak |first=Lily |title=New name, new leader, lesser-known plays at Marin Theatre in 2024-25 |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/marin-theatre-new-name-2024-25-season-19436559.php |access-date=2024-05-23 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en}}</ref>
''MTC Engaged!'' is a program that offers the audience access to the performers and playwrights after each performance and allows them to follow the evolution of each production via daily [[blog]]s posted to the MTC [[website]].


==Notable productions==
'''1987-88'''
*''[[Uncle Vanya]]''; ''[[Hedda Gabbler]]''
'''1988-89'''
*''[[Master Harold...and the Boys]]''; ''[[Noises Off]]''; ''[[I Do! I Do!]]''
'''1989-90'''
*''[[Loot (play)|Loot]]''; ''[[Glengarry Glen Ross]]''
'''1992-93'''
*''[[The Women]]''; ''[[Lend Me a Tenor]]''
'''1993-94'''
*''[[Shadowlands]]''; ''[[The Sum of Us]]''; ''[[Lips Together, Teeth Apart]]''
'''1997-98'''
*''[[Company (musical)|Company]]''; ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]''
'''2000-01'''
*''[[Morning's at Seven]]''; ''[[The Crucible]]''
'''2004-05'''
*''[[Beggar's Holiday]]''; ''[[Bus Stop (play)|Bus Stop]]''
'''2006-07'''
*''[[Orson's Shadow]]''
==See also==
==See also==
*[[American Conservatory Theatre]], [[San Francisco]]
*[[American Conservatory Theater]]
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*[[TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley)]], [[Palo Alto, California]]
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*[[San Jose Repertory Theatre]]
*[[Berkeley Repertory Theatre]]
*[[Berkeley Repertory Theatre]]
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*[[TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley)]]
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*[[San Jose Repertory Theatre]]
*[[Marin Shakespeare Company]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.marintheatre.org/index.htm Official website]
* {{Official website|https://www.marintheatre.org}}

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Latest revision as of 14:50, 23 July 2024

Marin Theatre is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and professional LORT D regional theater located in Mill Valley, California. Lance Gardner is the company's Artistic Director[1]

Marin Theatre is home to the 231-seat Boyer Theatre and 99-seat Lieberman Studio Theatre.[2] Notable past productions include the Bay Area premiere of Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, the 10th Anniversary revival of Suzan-Lori Parks's Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning Topdog/Underdog, the Bay Area premiere of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, the West Coast premiere of Keith Huff's A Steady Rain, the world premiere of Steve Yockey's Bellwether, the world premiere of Libby Appel's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, the world premiere of Bill Cain's 2011 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award[3] -winning 9 Circles, the West Coast premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red & Brown Water, and the Bay Area premiere of Bill Cain's 2010 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award[4] -winning Equivocation.[5]

History

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Marin Theatre was founded in 1966 as the Mill Valley Center for the Performing Arts (MVCPA) when 35 Mill Valley residents came together under the leadership of Sali Lieberman.[6] The nonprofit organization brought arts as diverse as film, theater, poetry, dance and concerts of classical, jazz and folk music to Marin County for a decade. After a number of successful community theater productions, MVCPA began to exclusively produce and present theater performances in 1977.[7]

The small group overcame many challenges to put on critically acclaimed, award-winning plays in a golf clubhouse, a veterans’ auditorium and several schools and parks. To acknowledge the organization’s specialization in theater arts and expand regional focus, MVCPA changed its name to Marin Theatre Company (MTC) in 1984. This marked the beginning of a period of extraordinary growth. By 1987, MTC had become a professional theater company, opening its own theater complex with onsite administrative offices and joining with other local theaters to negotiate the first regional equity contract in the Bay Area. MTC began a new play program to support emerging American playwrights, launching a New Works developmental workshop and public reading series in 2004 and establishing two new play prizes in 2007. MTC joined the League of Resident Theatres[8] and the National New Play Network in 2008.[9] The organization discontinued use of the term "Company" in 2024, and is known today as Marin Theatre.[10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Janiak, Lily (October 11, 2023). "This outspoken Bay Area actor just got hired to lead Marin Theatre Company". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on March 3, 2024. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
  2. ^ "History". Marin Theatre. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
  3. ^ "Bill Cain receives $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for 2011; $7,500 citations for Kathryn Grant and David Bar Katz". American Theatre Critics Association Official Website. self-published. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  4. ^ "CAIN WINS 2010 STEINBERG/ATCA AWARD — MARGULIES AND ZACARÍAS ALSO CITED". American Theatre Critics Association Official Website. self-published. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Production History". Marin Theatre Company. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Milley Awards of Mill Valley: Sali Lieberman and Vera Schultz Biographies". Milley Awards of Mill Valley Official Website. self-published. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  7. ^ "History". Marin Theatre Company. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  8. ^ "List of LORT Member Theatres". League of Resident Theatres Official Website. self-published. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  9. ^ "NNPN Member Theater Listings". National New Play Network Official Website. self-published. Archived from the original on 19 March 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  10. ^ Janiak, Lily. "New name, new leader, lesser-known plays at Marin Theatre in 2024-25". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
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