Reviews

  • “With a cast of five who give stellar performances under the astute direction of Artistic Director Gary Landis, Los Altos Stage Company opens an intriguing, eye-opening, oft-perplexing, and sometimes unsettling Heroes of the Fourth Turning... Kevin not only is a drunken mess much of the evening, but his own sense of self-worth is on the other end of the scale from Teresa's overblown ego and self-confidence. "I think there is a demon in me ... I'm not OK ... I'm the worst," he moans and cries in many different ways (often with alcohol-enabled, remorseful tears while wallowing on the ground). Tim Garcia is magnificent as this blubbering mess seemingly on the verge of a total breakdown. His body seems to be made of rubber as he twists and turns his bony hands, flails like a madman with his arms, or wraps his torso into a near pretzel, all the while raising with pointed clarity questions that make his friends uneasy.

    Theatre Eddys on Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • “When nephew Steven (versatile Garcia) surprises the lovers, he expresses funny, teen-aged disgust. But as Steven grows up, he cherishes Daniel and Richard’s intimacy as ‘beautiful.’ People come around—even homophobic Joanne, Daniel’s mom, has to face the truth—in a funny drag satire by multi-talented Garcia.”

    Theatrius on A Marriage
    “A MARRIAGE” BRILLIANTLY CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF GAY ROMANCE—AT THEATREFIRST

  • “Beautifully presented in the round on a set made of a simple wooden dock and some foliage, we’re pulled into the drama by the strength of two fine performances by Tim Garcia and Leon Jones. In a powerful finale, the two friends deliver each other’s redemption. The acting is top notch and emotionally raw.”

    REVIEW: Broadway World on A Picture of Two Boys at New Conservatory Theatre Center

  • “Tim Garcia as Pete and Leon Jones as Markey/Marcus give phenomenal, multilayered performances as the equally tortured friends. The two actors are on stage for 90 minutes, convincingly playing both 17 year olds and then later men in their late 20s.”

    Stage & Screen Review on A Picture of Two Boys at New Conservatory Theatre Center

  • “Both Jones and Garcia are terrific in their roles … fine performances. Garcia plays his role with an almost manic energy that he uses to cover the pain in Pete’s life. (Pete also treats his pain with a plastic water bottle filled with vodka–’Absolut – the good stuff.’) It almost feels like if Pete ever slowed down, he’d have to more completely face the stress in his current life, a seemingly bleak future, and a painful past that will be addressed in the second half.”

    Talkin’ Broadway on A Picture of Two Boys

  • “Cassandra’s brother Alexander (a buttoned-down, nuanced performance by Tim Garcia) is accompanying her on a bicycle trip across the country to follow the butterflies and discover where they will hatch. As directed by John R. Lewis, it’s taut and suspenseful.”

    The Mercury News on Somewhere

  • “Tim Garcia nails an impressive, lightning-paced monologue riddled with more casino-friendly terminology than a copy of Gambling for Dummies. He is excellent as frenetic 17-year-old Sheldon, keeping his broke father Walter afloat with handouts from his winnings.”

    Aisle Seat Review on Good. Better. Best. Bested.

  • "When gambling addict, Walter, and his coked out teenage poker-shark son, Sheldon (intense Tim Garcia) hear about the event, they butt heads. Movingly, Sheldon wails uncontrollably, ‘I hate people!'”

    Theatrius on Good. Better. Best. Bested
    “GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED.” EXPOSES GLITTER AND GLOOM, AT CUSTOM MADE, S.F.

  • “One of the youngest actors in the production, Tim Garcia, displays incredible emotional variability as Mickey Marcus, a mentally unstable writer for the Health Department who grapples with the lack of information about the disease.”

    The Daily Californian on The Normal Heart

  • “Overwhelmed by the tragic absurdity of so many deaths and the malicious inertia of Koch and Reagan, ACT-UP reaches a breaking point. Mickey (memorable and authentic Tim Garcia) undergoes a heart-wrenching breakdown.”

    Theatrius on The Normal Heart
    “THE NORMAL HEART” SPURS LOVE AND ACTION, AT THEATRE RHINO, S.F.

  • “Tim Garcia is electric as Mickey Marcus, angry over losing the hard-fought right to love in the face of a sexless new world.”

    For All Events on The Normal Heart

  • “Tim Garcia is outstanding as Mickey, when he breaks down in the second act amid the stress of volunteering for the organization and keeping his job with the city government.”

    Talkin’ Broadway on The Normal Heart

  • "In one of the most gripping scenes, Mickey (Tim Garcia) reaches a tipping point when the phones are ringing off the hook and he can find no more volunteers. The calm, witty activist, grief-stricken by the loss of so many friends, is threatened with losing his city job because of his advocacy. His handsome face crumples into a grimace, his rational voice is choked with sobs."

    48 Hills on The Normal Heart
    ”    ‘The Normal Heart’ still beats ferociously at Theatre Rhino”

  • “When organizer Mickey (Tim Garcia) has an unexpected but inevitable meltdown in the moment that makes the production, oh boy does that last a long time too.”

    Edge Media Network on The Normal Heart

  • “Tim Garcia is brilliant, morphing between [Norman Bates] and his mother with split-second timing. He goes back and forth with amazing speed in a brilliant display of acting.”

    Talkin’ Broadway on Twisted Hitchcock

  • “…this young actor shows promise for his ability to hold the whole stage in the grip of one character’s tension.”

    Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle on Ghost Limb

  • “Tim Garcia is an excellent actor who not only delivers Prior Walter’s lines with great meaning, he is a small, very thin man, and when he collapses on the floor, as this tiny, broken man who is terrified about having to go to the hospital, terrified by the blood he is spilling, terrified by what he fears will be his loneliness if his lover leaves him, it is a hugely powerful scene.”

    Regarding Arts on Angels In America: Millennium Approaches
    ”Brilliant Performances Bless ‘Angels in America’”

  • “Tim Garcia is a revelation… He gives a superb performance… His penetrating performance allows the audience to see the damage, even despairing young man under the stoic surface.”

    For All Events on How The World Began

  • “There’s tremendous power in Mr. Garcia’s performance and in Micah’s honesty… something is bothering him, and Garcia makes us feel his passions.”

    TheatreStorm on How The World Began

  • “The real star of this production is Tim Garcia. From the moment he slouches into the classroom, he commands the stage and our attention. Mr. Garcia shows all signs of being a mature actor beyond his young age. We as audience are both repulsed by his increasingly revengeful-sounding demands while at the same time are ready to step in and hug and comfort this kid who is evidently so traumatized and fearful from events that have transpired in his life.”

    Theatre Eddys on How The World Began

  • “Tim Garcia delineates the reactions of the young, orphaned student very well, showing his intensity and callow, awkward sense of fairness, his desire to communicate and his underlying guilt and religious mania, occasionally repetitive in his mannerisms."

    The Berkeley Daily Planet on How The World Began

  • “Mary McGloin (Susan), Malcolm Rodgers (Gene) and Tim Garcia (Micah) all deliver strong performances as guided by director Leah S. Abrams. Garcia’s Micah carries himself with an intense inward-facing woundedness, a depth of lonely pain he cannot reveal. So he shields himself with an unflinching insistence on righteous accuracy that keeps him isolated and in perpetual conflict.”

    SF Examiner on How The World Began

  • "Tim’s work and thinking for this course was remarkably advanced, not only in relation to those who took the course in the Fall, but in relation to all the students I have encountered in the course over the years…his writing was extremely sophisticated, intellectually complex, scholarly, and highly engaged…He displayed an exceptional measure of ambition insofar as he clearly expected his writing to persuade an audience (not just a professor) to reexamine assumptions about the relationship between drag performance and political power. Tim is a very talented actor, who has done very fine work for the Department’s theater productions. But it is evident that his scholarly and intellectual capacities, as well as his ambitions, differentiate him considerably within his student cohort at this university and probably at nearly any other university. He is exceptionally scholarly, he is a gifted actor, and he is an excellent collaborator, very curious and open to adventurous thinking and problem solving."

    -Dr. Karl Toepfer, San José State University