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Chicago Gets Great Coverage In Marin

Chicago has gotten great coverage in many local Marin newspapers! Articles about the production have appeared in the Novato Advance, The Twin Cities Times and The Ross Valley Reporter.

Chicago is a Pacific Sun Best Bet

(From the Pacific Sun - July 2, 2010)

And all that jazz...

Murder! Greed! Corruption! Violence! Exploitation! Treachery! Plus a whole lotta exhilarating song and dance. The award-winning musical that has it all, CHICAGO, opens Marin Summer Theater's season with a talented cast of 13- to 23-year-old students—and that includes musicians, technicians and crew. The theater group, sponsored by San Marin Music Boosters with support from the high school and the Novato school district, presents three shows in seven weeks—Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Some Enchanted Evening—The Songs and Dance of Rodgers and Hammerstein follow later this month and next. Preview performance Thursday, July 8, at 8pm; regular performances Friday, July 9, and Saturday, July 10, at 8pm and Sunday, July 11, at 2pm at the Emily Gates Student Center at San Marin High School, 15 San Marin Dr., Novato. Info: www.marinsummertheater.org .—Carol Inkellis

Benefit for Marin Summer Theater Opens Season

Published in the The Novato Advance - June 16, 2010

‘Complete Works of Shakespeare’ to be performed June 19

Marin Summer Theater (MST) opens its second season Saturday, June 19, with a special one-night performance of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).” Proceeds from the performance will go toward MST’s scholarship fund and will be used to reduce tuition so more students can afford to participate in MST without regard to economic status.

Reprising a sold-out performance earlier this spring, actors Danny Weinberg, Fernando Sui and Matthew Puccini of San Rafael will take the audience through 37 plays in a 90-minute free-for-all, making mincemeat of the Bard. Improvisation, audience participation, pop culture, and local references are in store, as well as the fastest, funniest, “Hamlet” you’re likely to see. (Warning: watch for sock puppets and audience participation.)

Season One Recap

As Marin Summer Theater starts up its second season, here is a quick recap from season one!

3	Performances each of The Beaux Stratagem, Bernstein on Broadway and Sweeney Todd
20	Parent and community volunteers
23	Different schools and universities represented by company members
57	Company members
200	Total hours of rehearsal
1,000	Audience members

The staff of Marin Summer Theater would like to thank company members and volunteers for their hard work and the community for their support. Special thanks go to to Dr. Robert Vieth, San Marin High School, Novato Unified School District, Ross Valley Players, and Fairfield College for helping to make our first season so successful.

New acting program at Marin Summer Theater keeps students onstage

From the Marin Independant Journal - July 8, 2009

By Paul Liberatore

Posted: 07/08/2009 05:50:01 PM PDT

Marin Summer Theater, a new program for student actors, musicians, dancers and technicians, makes its debut July 10 in Novato with the first of three ambitious productions, the 300-year-old period comedy "The Beaux' Stratagem."