Mountain Play Fundraising Concert Canceled

The Mountain Play, currently on hiatus while it deals with the financial challenges being faced by many arts organizations today, announced today that it was cancelling its upcoming benefit concert due to “lower than expected funding and lackluster ticket sales”. The concert, originally scheduled for June 15 and titled Tradition!, was to be “a tribute…

Preview: Mountain Play gets “Kinky”

The last few years have been exceedingly challenging for the theatre community, and Mill Valley’s Mountain Play is no different. “Since 2019 the Mountain Play has been weathering storms,” said Executive Director Eileen Grady, “both literal and figurative. From the climate crisis to employment law changes to the pandemic and its aftershocks, we’ve been through…

Review: “Hello, Dolly!” on Mt. Tam

The Mountain Play returns to the Cushing Memorial Amphitheater atop Mount Tamalpais with a boisterous production of the Jerry Herman classic Hello, Dolly! Directed by Jay Manley, the quintessential American musical runs Sundays (and one Saturday) though June 19. Matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi (Dyan McBride) has been hired by well-known Yonkers, New York half-a-millionaire and…