Playhouse Launches a New Logo

Look out for our brand new logo as we roll it out over the coming weeks and months. The new design was developed during July through a detailed dialogue between playhouse staff and Mexico-based graphic designer Denisse Pina. In a series of discussions staff focussed in on what we wanted to achieve, and our wonderful Marketing intern Cristina Bringas relayed our thoughts to Denisse as she offered a number of concepts and renderings to choose from.

The logo will appear on our new season brochure- also completely redesigned by Denisse - which'll be hitting over 30,000 doormats in August. Following that, you'll begin to see it on our other communication materials like our e-newsletter and website.

We think the logo really speaks to our vision for the theater and our committment to diversity, to a sense of history, and to a contemporary outllook. We love it! We hope you like it too.

Mission Playhouse Plays Host to Major New HBO Movie

July 12th and 13th saw the Playhouse parking lot full to the brim with Starwagons and wardrobe trucks, generators and all manner of movie-making equipment as the production team for a major new HBO movie rolled into the Mission District.

The film entitled Cinema Verite stars Academy Award and Golden Globe Winners Diane Lane, and Tim Robbins and Golden Globe Winner James Gandolfini, star of The Soprano’s.

Cinema Verite charts the story of the making of An American Family, the Oscar-winning 1973 groundbreaking documentary centered on Santa Barbara couple Pat Loud (Lane) and Bill Loud (Robbins), who split up during the filming, and their children, the eldest of whom, son Lance, became TV's first openly gay character. Gandolfini plays the documentary’s producer.

The cast is joined by Almost Famous star Patrick Fugit and Swingtown star Shanna Collins. Look out for familiar San Gabriel scenes in the film in 2012.