Orinda Community Center

I love live theater and I love it even more when you can catch one at community theaters for less than the price of a movie ticket. Orinda would normally be far for me to go for a community theater especially when Castro Valley’s Chanticleer is only about 20 minutes away. However, when I saw on Goldstar that they were putting on Agatha Christie’s Poirot, this mystery nut had to check it out.
This is a small outdoor amphitheater style seating with wood benches the first 3 – 4 rows and then rock benches for the remaining 5 – 6 rows. In anticipation of those with a rear lacking natural cushion or if you want some additional padding for the 2 hours, they do provide individual pads for you to sit on and blankets on cool nights. Acting for certain scenes seemed a little over the top vs. flowing naturally but it may be due to this only being the second show for this script. If you live in the area, it is a fun way to experience outdoor theater in the warmer months.

While living in Orinda, I took a few classes offered at the Orinda Community Center. First I enrolled in a tap dancing class and had a lot of fun. Although I had tapped for years the class was still fun and there were a lot of people enrolled. I also took a spanish class through the Orinda Community Center and it went well also. The Orinda Community center also organized league sports for children. I volunteered to coach a kids baseball team and everything was always very organized and fun.
The Community Center is connected to the Library, which is also a great place. The park next to the community center is a lot of fun and has a lot of different equipment for kids of all ages.