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Marin Theatre Company is the Bay Area’s premiere mid-sized theater and the leading professional theater in the North Bay. We produce a five- to six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in two intimate theaters – a 231 seat proscenium and a 99-seat thrust. We are committed to the development and production of new plays by American playwrights, with a comprehensive New Play Program that includes world premieres, playwriting awards, new play readings and workshops, and a leadership position in the National New Play Network. We also have numerous educational programs, including theater for young audiences that perform in our Lieberman Theater and tour to schools throughout Marin; teachers in the classroom; a summer camp; student matinees; free tickets for teachers; and internships. Our educational programs serve more than 6,000 students each year. MTC is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT).
and Ryan Rilette
Dear Friends,
Marin Theatre Company is the Bay Area’s premiere mid-sized theater and the leading professional theater in the North Bay. We produce a five- to six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in two intimate theaters—a 231-seat proscenium and a 99-seat thrust. We are committed to the development and production of new plays by American playwrights, with a comprehensive New Play Program that includes at least one world premiere each season, two nationally recognized annual playwriting awards, numerous new play readings and workshops by the nation’s best emerging playwrights, and a leadership position in the National New Play Network. We also provide numerous educational programs that serve more than 6,000 students each year.
Provacative Plays | Passionate Playwrights are what you will find at Marin Theatre Company. Our Provacative Plays will entertain you, thrill you, and engage you in our two intimate theaters where you can escape into a realm of the mind, of language, and of pure excitement. Our Passionate Playwrights will ignite your emotions, fire your imagination, and ask you to examine our world from countless angles and points of view. We have five exciting mainstage productions lined up this season, set to cause a sensation in the Bay Area and across the country all year.
Our first production is the West Coast premiere of Aaron Posner’s deeply moving adaptation of the classic novel by Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev. MTC’s production of My Name is Asher Lev is one of only three in the U.S. this season, and the only production on the West Coast. In November we present one of this year’s most produced plays—with 13 productions scheduled across the country—Marin native Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s hysterical, romantic/apocalyptic comedy, boom. In January, MTC is honored to produce the National New Play Network World Premiere of Sharr White’s political thriller, Sunlight, which will go on to three additional productions in Seattle, Indianapolis, and Long Branch, NJ. March brings a very rare opportunity to see a play in its Bay Area premiere while it is still running in New York off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club. Bill Cain’s marvelous Equivocation is about William Shakespeare and his attempts to write the dramatic “true” history of the infamous Gunpowder Plot. We conclude the season in May with Peter Glazer’s heart stirring, foot stompin’ musical, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, which follows Woody’s journey from his home in the American dustbowl to the promised land of California and beyond.
Many of your favorite MTC veterans will be back on our stage as we continue our commitment to creating a working company from Bay Area artists. Danielle Levin (said Saïd) returns in My Name is Asher Lev and Joan Mankin (The Pavilion) appears in boom. Charles Dean (Communicating Doors), Wanda McCaddon (The Subject Tonight is Love), Carrie Paff (A Streetcar Named Desire), and Kevin Rolston (What the Butler Saw) return in Sunlight. Equivocation features Anna Bullard (Magic Forest Farm), Lance Gardner (A Streetcar Named Desire), Andrew Hurteau (The Seafarer), Craig Marker (Bus Stop), as well as Andy Murray and Charles Shaw Robinson (both recently seen in What the Butler Saw).
We are also expanding our MTC Engaged! offerings this season to help you get more enjoyment out of your experience. As always, you are invited to stay after each performance (excluding Saturdays) to participate in our Question & Answer sessions with members of our artistic staff as well as our actors and artists. Please visit our production pages for exclusive behind-the-scenes material about the creative process at MTC.
It’s going to be a great year, with a talented company of artists, and unique experiences you can only find here at MTC. A seat awaits you. Join us at MTC and take a journey that will explode ordinary expectations.
Jasson Minadakis | Artistic Director
Ryan Rilette | Producing Director
