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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Mamma Mia!

Music and Lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, Book by Catherine Johnson

Comedy, Musical | Mar 27 – Apr 14

Fly in for a fABBAulous time at Mill Mountain Theatre this Spring. Mamma Mia! tells the story of Sophie, a twenty year old bride-to-be who longs to have her father…

Write Stuff!

Young Playwright Festival

Family, Festival, Staged Reading, Young Audiences | Apr 12 – Apr 12

MMT’s young playwrights festival Write Stuff! returns for its third year. Three plays were selected by a panel of readers from submissions to be produced as staged readings and performed…