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 walk her down the aisle. The problem is, she has no idea who he is! After reading her mother’s diary, filled with her mom’s adventures…

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 by MMT Conservatory Students.   Winning plays are: One Date by Caroline Moledor Monologue by Zachary Conklin Lucas by Tura Furrow-Scott, Addison Carmen, & Jonas…

My Fatal Valentine- Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre

Collaboration between Roanoke Parks and Rec & Mill Mountain Theatre

Comedy, Immersive Theatre | Feb 15 – Feb 17

My Fatal Valentine by Eileen Moushey Love is all hearts and roses until it ends in murder… Join other amateur sleuths at Roanoke’s historic Fishburn Mansion for a delicious dinner and an interactive murder mystery theatre performance. During this interactive dinner theatre, audience members will use their detective skills while traveling through the mansion to solve…

Hollins 2019 Festival Of New Works

Festival | Jan 17 – Feb 2

Community Garden By Ben Jolivet. Directed by Lauren Brooke Ellis  When they go low, we go ‘round the bend. As Bernie and Hillary duked it out on the national stage, Claire got to work building the community garden she knew would transform her neighborhood and her life. Instead, political discord grew like weeds and strangled…

The Christmas Cup

By Nancy Ruth Patterson

Family | Dec 5 – Dec 23

The story of Ann Megan McCallie, recipient of the Good Citizenship Award, spelling bee champion, and favorite target of bullies, displays the events that unfold after she foolishly buys an old, ugly milkshake cup at an auction. Nannie, her wise grandmother, helps Megan turn that unwanted cup into a vessel of good cheer as together…

A Simple Gift

By Nancy Ruth Patterson

Family, Special Event | Nov 10 – Nov 10

Roanoke educator Nancy Ruth Patterson’s delightful story is about 10-year-old Carrie O’Connor, who wants to be an actress. After starring in her class play at her New York City school, she convinces her parents to let her audition for a theater in North Carolina that is doing a play based on a book written by…

West Side Story

Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and Book by Arthur Laurents

Drama, Musical | Oct 3 – Oct 21

Based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this classic follows warring families of teenaged gangs and star-crossed lovers, desperate for somewhere to be together forever. The romantic and violent story is told through choreography based on the Jerome Robbins original Tony Award-winning dances, with the music of Leonard Bernstein and the words of then beginner Stephen…

A Taste of Country

Concert | Aug 24 – Aug 25

We live in the birthplace of country music and all grew up with those songs and singers – from Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, and Dolly Parton to Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood and Alan Jackson. MMT invites you to savor a taste of the rich history of our nation’s authentic soundtrack in an evening of trucks,…

Shrek The Musical – TYA Version

Performed by MMTC students and local children.

Comedy, Musical | Aug 1 – Aug 12

Music by Jeanine Tesori, Book & Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. Once upon a time, as all fairytales begin, there lived an ogre named Shrek. His swamp was invaded by castoff characters from other fairytales. To reclaim the swamp, Shrek must rescue a princess and in the process, he falls in love with her. Adapted from…

Spring Awakening

Music by Duncan Sheik, Book & Lyrics by Steven Sater

Drama, Musical | Jun 21 – Jun 30

A rock musical about teenagers caught between the tumult of adolescence and the frustrating lack of experience with sex, pregnancy, abortion and suicide, guilt, innocence and death, all with wailing guitars, driving percussion and tortured young voices. The musical, based on a 19th century German play, won 8 Tony Awards in 2006. Performed by the…

A Year With Frog And Toad

Music by Robert Reale, Book & Lyrics by Willie Reale

Musical, Young Audiences | Jun 2 – Jun 30

This charming musical, the first children’s show to reach Broadway, is a year in the life of two amphibian friends and a host of other woodland characters. Songs about flying, swimming and sledding will take young audiences into a fantasy forest of new friends and adventures. MMT will perform this show around the region at…

An Evening With Andrew Lloyd Webber

Concert | Jun 1 – Jun 2

Over the past 50 years, much of the most memorable theatre music has been the creation of English composer and impresario, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Knighted by the Queen in 1992 for his service to music, Lloyd Webber composed The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, the recent School of Rock, and many…

The Christians

By Lucas Hnath

Drama, Staged Reading | May 18 – May 19

Pastor Paul approaches the pulpit on the day when his megachurch is celebrating paying off its debt. To the surprise of his congregation, his sermon reveals that the church is taking a new direction theologically. Fractured by a dispute over salvation and damnation, this is a play about religious schism in modern America. This play…

A Chorus Line

Music by Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics by Edward Kleban, and Book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante

Comedy, Musical | Apr 25 – May 13

Hopeful, heartbreaking and hilarious, A Chorus Line tells the personal stories of 17 dancers auditioning for 8 spots in the chorus of a new Broadway show. Through song and dance they describe the families, jobs, and tough times that shaped their lives and careers. Unforgettable songs by Marvin Hamlisch include “What I Did For Love,”…

Mother Goose Tales

Adapted by Christopher Castanho

Comedy, Young Audiences | May 5 – May 12

When siblings Jack & Jill decide they’re too old for bedtime stories, they suddenly are whisked away to a strange land and have to find their way home. On their journey they meet Nursery Rhyme characters: the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Little Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty and more, who lead them to the Queen: Mother Goose,…

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

Drama, Young Audiences | May 5 – May 12

Sorcerers, sprites and spirits meet villains, and monsters, and kings in Shakespeare’s tragicomedy set on a remote island complete with a shipwreck. Romance and a raging storm end in revelations, redemption and marriage as Shakespeare’s plays so often do. MMT’s shortened adaptation of the original script, an excellent introduction to Shakespeare for Middle and High…

Constellations

By Nick Payne

Drama | Feb 22 – Mar 11

Science and romance collide in this sophisticated love story. Constellations is a spellbinding journey about a simple encounter between a man and a woman that quickly defies the usual boundaries of a relationship, and ends by asking audiences to ponder the differences between choice and destiny. This production is produced in agreement with Actors’ Equity…

Write Stuff!

2nd Annual Festival

Festival, Young Audiences | Feb 10 – Feb 10

MMT’s program to encourage young playwrights culminates in staged productions of the winning scripts.   Mill Mountain Theatre Conservatory proudly presents Write Stuff! for it’s 2nd Annual Festival.   This playwriting competition was open to local middle & high school students who submitted their original ten-minute play. The pieces were then read and three were selected…