Hollins Playwrights Festival of New Works

Festival | Jul 17 – Jul 19

Each summer at the end of July, we present a three-day event showcasing readings of student work from the Playwright’s Lab. Normally, these eight readings are minimally staged at Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage for the general public and close to a dozen guest professional responders from all over the globe. On Sunday at 8…

2020 Monday Night Guest Speaker Series

Festival | Jun 22 – Jul 13

Each Monday night the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre present a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing the Monday Night Guest Speaker Series will be presented live via Zoom.   June 22  Guest Speaker: John Bergman, 7:30 pm (Eastern)…

Overnight Sensations

Festival | Jul 11 – Jul 11

Since 2006, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University has partnered with Mill Mountain Theatre to present a micro-brewed theatre festival. On Friday night six playwrights are randomly paired with six directors, who then randomly draw from a hat a variety of writing prompts and a pre-selected cast of local actors. Before 8 am the next…

Write Stuff! 2020

4th Annual Young Playwright Festival

Festival, Staged Reading, Young Audiences | Feb 22 – Feb 22

Write Stuff!, MMT’s young playwrights festival, returns for its fourth year! MMT’s program to encourage young playwrights culminates in readings and staged readings of the winning scripts. 6 plays have been selected to be workshopped this year.  3 plays will receive readings and 3 will be produced in a staged reading format, all performed by Mill Mountain…

Hollins-Mill Mountain Partnership 2020 Winter Festival of New Works

Festival | Jan 23 – Feb 2

Moving By Sean Michael McCord. Directed by Todd Ristau. Can love survive romance? Over the span of thirty years in one apartment lovers come together, fall apart, and move on through life’s choices. Performances: January 23, 25, 30, February 1 at 7:30pm Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage at 20 Church Ave SE Tickets: $10 general…

Timeless Twenties- An Immersive Prohibition Experience

Collaboration with Roanoke Parks and Rec

Immersive Theatre | Jan 31 – Feb 1

Travel back 100 years and experience a night in the Roaring 20s with this immersive prohibition experience. Speak easy as you give the secret password for admission into a Prohibition-era “Blind Pig.” To fully immerse yourself in the experience, wear your best flapper dress or pinstripe suit. Enjoy a night of cards, games, entertainment, and…

The Sound of Music

Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II with Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

Family, Musical | Dec 4 – Dec 22

The hills are alive in the Roanoke Valley this holiday season with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound Of Music, best known for its film adaptation starring Julie Andrews as the high-spirited governess Fraulein Maria. This 1959 classic has songs like “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”, “Do-Re-Mi’, and “The Sound of Music”, perfect for the whole family. Share…

Every Brilliant Thing

Play by Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe

Comedy, Drama | Nov 7 – Nov 10

All performances of Every Brilliant Thing are on Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage: 20 Church Avenue SE, Roanoke, VA. “You’re six years old. Your mother’s in the hospital. You’re told she finds it hard to be happy. So you start making a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world: 1. Ice Cream, 2. Kung…

Romeo and Juliet

Play by William Shakespeare

Drama, Young Audiences | Oct 19 – Oct 26

All public performances of Romeo & Juliet are on Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage: 20 Church Avenue SE, Roanoke, VA. William Shakespeare’s classic tale of Romeo and Juliet is re-envisioned in an imaginative and theatrical adaptation on the Waldron Stage. Shakespeare’s most famous play of love, family feuds, and inevitable tragedy takes on a new…

The Glass Menagerie

Play by Tennessee Williams

Drama | Sep 25 – Oct 6

Said to be one of the greatest plays in the 20th Century, The Glass Menagerie is the “memory play” that catapulted beloved playwright Tennessee Williams to fame. This riveting drama is set in 1937’s St. Louis, and follows the fragile Wingfield family: Tom, an aspiring poet, his painfully shy sister Laura, and their mother Amanda, a faded…

Let’s Go To The Movies

Concert | Aug 23 – Aug 24

Sit back and enjoy all of your favorite songs from Hollywood’s Greatest Blockbusters: from Titanic to The Wizard of Oz, to Dirty Dancing. You will not want to miss this journey of music through the golden age of cinema at Mill Mountain Theatre. Come join us in this celebration of music through 100 years of…

Disney’s The Little Mermaid JR

Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, and Book by Doug Wright

Comedy, Family, Musical, Young Audiences | Jul 31 – Aug 11

Journey under the sea with Ariel and her friends in Disney’s The Little Mermaid JR. In a magical underwater utopia, mermaid Ariel’s only wish is to live on land. But first she’ll have to meet a prince, defy her father, and strike up a deal with an evil sea witch! Classic songs like “Part of…

2019 Monday Night Guest Speaker Series

Special Event | Jun 24 – Jul 22

Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist:   June 24  Guest Speaker: Jacqueline E. Lawton, 7:30 PM Lawton – playwright, dramaturg, producer, advocate – is the Dramatist Guild of America regional representative for North Carolina.…

Hollins Playwrights Festival of New Works

Festival, Staged Reading | Jul 19 – Jul 21

On the Waldron Stage Each summer at the end of July, we present a three-day event showcasing readings of student work from the Playwright’s Lab. This year’s eight readings are being minimally staged for the general public and close to a dozen guest professional responders from all over the globe. On Sunday at 8 PM…

A Peter Rabbit Tale: A Children’s Musical

Book by Sarah Brandt, Music and Lyrics by Neal Richardson

Comedy, Family, Musical, Young Audiences | Jun 1 – Jul 13

Beatrix Potter’s classic story A Peter Rabbit Tale comes to life in this spirited  children’s musical, touring the Roanoke Valley this summer. Peter Rabbit has begun to believe that being a rabbit isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. His mother is always making him do chores and he’s had enough of his goody two-shoes…

Overnight Sensations

New Play Festival

Festival | Jul 6 – Jul 6

July 6 8:00 PM On the Trinkle MainStage Free admission! Since 2006, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University has partnered with Mill Mountain Theatre to present a micro-brewed new play festival of freshly baked plays. On Friday night six playwrights are randomly paired with six directors, then randomly draw from a hat a variety of…

Next To Normal

Music by Tom Kitt and Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey

Drama, Musical | Jun 20 – Jun 29

Winner of the Pulitzer-Prize for Drama, this groundbreaking musical follows the Goodmans, a seemingly typical American family whose lives are anything but normal. The contemporary and electrifying musical shares the Goodman family’s intricate battle with mental health. Abundant with love, sympathy, and heart, Next To Normal takes the audience into the minds of each character,…

Music of the 60s

Concert | May 31 – Jun 1

Twist and shimmy your way to Mill Mountain Theatre with the catchiest songs from one of the most revolutionary decades in music, the 60’s. With your favorites from chart toppers like The Beatles, The Supremes, and Aretha Franklin, we invite you to slip on a pair of bell bottoms and dance to your favorites. R.E.S.P.E.C.T.…