Arts & Entertainment
2022-23 EMV Guide: Sweetwater Music Hall, Then & Now
“The whole point of this place…is to let the music happen,” Bob Weir says. “The building wanted us here, and it revealed itself to us.” In the years since, the board navigated the turbulence of Covid, renovated the space, added a nonprofit component and leveraged a gorgeous new patio to open the Rock & Rye restaurant.
Read More2022-23 EMV Guide: Art Q&A
Seven artists and experts answer questions about the local art scene. With these aficionados in town, including the Mill Valley Art Dealers Association, you’ll see why Mill Valley is fast becoming a global arts destination.
Read More2022-23 EMV Guide: Member Directory
The Mill Valley Chamber has nearly 400 members, including an array of arts & culture organizations, restaurants, retail shops, nonprofits, financial services, real estate, health & wellness, automotive, lodging, consumer and professional services and much more.
Read More2022-23 EMV Guide: Art About
Art About Mill Valley was inspired by a curious visitor who came to the MV Chamber to find out the name of the artist who created the downtown Mosaic. The Mill Valley Historical Society had the answer – Alfonso Pardinas. With an abundance of fantastic art installations about town, we thought it would be fun to highlight many of our local treasures so you can seek them out on your own. We’re honoring the creators and express our deepest gratitude to the generous individuals, foundations and organizations who funded these community-enriching projects.
Read More2022-23 EMV Guide: 2022-23 Calendar
Let’s live, learn, laugh and cut a rug in the 94941! Check enjoymillvalley.com and individual sites for updates, times and locations.
Read MoreJoey Hoeber Brings ‘The Realistic Joneses’ to The Playhouse in San Anselmo
Boasting the playwright’s quintessential existential quirkiness, this comedy finds poetry in the banal while humorously exploring our ever-floundering efforts at communication. Listed as one of New York Times’ Best Plays of 2012, The Realistic Joneses received its Broadway premiere in spring 2014, starring Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts and Marisa Tomei, and opened to rave reviews.
Read MoreThrockmorton Theatre’s Summer Youth Ensemble Debuts Drought- and Nature-Themed Production – July 29-31
For Throckmorton Theatre founder Lucy Mercer, the unexpected quiet moments of running a largely shuttered live arts venue provided the time to conceive of “The Water Spirit,” a new family musical play that explores what happens to the smallest creatures – a mouse and a rat, in this case – when drought hits a small town named Happy Valley.
Read MoreRenowned Marin Girls Chorus Comes to Mill Valley and Southern Marin
The breadth and depth of another key sector of our arts community far outweighs the rest in terms of number of participants: kid-centric arts venues. Now we can add the Marin Girls Chorus to the mix – it’s coming to Mill Valley.
Read MoreCeramicist Julems Returns to Mill Valley’s Poet and/the Bench With New Pieces – July 30
Judith Lemmens returns to Mill Valley on July 30 (2-5pm), bringing nearly 50 new ceramic pieces to Poet and/the Bench, the nearly five-year-old Poet and/the Bench lifestyle store and jewelry atelier space on the block of Throckmorton Ave. that includes the Cinemark Sequoia movie theater.
Read MoreLinda Colnett Brings Her ‘Magical Mystical Trees’ to MV Chamber in August – First Tuesday Artwalk is Aug. 2nd
Throughout August, Colnett is set to show her work on the walls of the Mill Valley Chamber’s space at 85 Throckmorton Ave., including a reception on Tuesday, August 2nd as part of the Mill Valley Arts Commission’s First Tuesday Artwalk (5:30-7:30pm).
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