Mountain Play Centennial Celebration Kicks Off This Weekend

Each year, we Meanderers trek from Bootjack to the West Point Inn with a stop at the Mountain Theater to listen to Wendy talk about the history of the Mountain Play which has been staged there annually since 1913.

This year the Mountain Play celebrates its 100th anniversary with performances of The Sound of Music on weekends from May 19th through June 16th. (Click here to buy tickets.)

A special exhibit about the history of the play is at the Marin History Museum's "outpost" at 1025 Court Street in San Rafael, in the Courthouse Square area.



On Sunday, 4/28/2013 at 8:00 PM, Thursday, 5/2/2013 at 5:00 PM, and Sunday,
5/5/2013 at 7:00 PM, MarinTV's educational channel (Comcast Channel 30) will broadcast a 90 minute special presentation of a April 23rd event at which Mountain Play Executive Director Sara Pearson spoke and showed slides of the play's first 100 years. Mountain Play performers sang selections from past shows. Director Jay Manley discussed the upcoming production of The Sound of Music.

The Mountain Play will be feted by the Marin History Museum on Saturday, May 4th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm at the Boyd Gate House & Boyd Memorial Park.

Historian and author Fred Runner will do an audio-visual presentation on the Mountain Play's centennial on Thursday, June 20 at noon in Room 330 of the Marin Civic Center.

Marin's Mountain Play: 100 Years of Theatre on Mount Tamalpais, written by Dick Jordan's friend, Elisabeth Ptak, is available at local bookstores including Book Passage and Point Reyes Books, where she gave readings earlier this month.

You can learn more about the history of the Mountain Play by watching videos on the Mountain Play's YouTube Channel.