Mill Mountain Theatre

Mill Mountain Theatre (MMT) is the only professional regional theatre in Roanoke, offering a variety of classic and contemporary American plays, musicals and children's shows on the Trinkle Main Stage and the smaller Waldron Stage. Located at Center in the Square in Downtown Roanoke, MMT has proudly served the region and industry for 50 years.

Recent offerings have included large musicals (White Christmas, 42nd Street, Hairspray and Children of Eden); dramas (To Kill a Mockingbird, On Golden Pond,); comedies (The Odd Couple, The 39 Steps); children's shows (Into the Woods Jr, Disney's Beauty and the Beast Jr,); and original music revues, conceived and produced in-house (The Music of ABBA, The Music of Motown.)

MMT also offers year-round theatre arts education through the Mill Mountain Theatre Conservatory (MMTC). MMTC provides instruction in Acting, Music Theatre, Dance, & Technical Theatre for emerging artists ages K through Adults. All classes are taught by experienced, working industry professionals, with performance opportunities on MMT's Main Stages.

Mill Mountain Theatre has a longstanding relationship with Hollins University and the Hollins Theatre Institute. Current collaborations include The Hollins-Mill Mountain Theatre Winter Festival of New Works, Overnight Sensations (a 24-hour play event), and the MFA Playwright Lab's 6-week summer residency at MMT.

The upcoming 2017 Season will feature 14 productions, from staged readings on the Waldron Stage to fully realized plays and musicals on the Trinkle Main Stage.

In 1964, two New York producers established a summer stock theatre in the vacant Rockledge Inn on the highest point in Roanoke, Virginia- Mill Mountain. Soon dubbed Mill Mountain Playhouse, the company underwent a series of institutional changes, finally incorporating as a not-for-profit, non-Equity resident stock theatre. When the original playhouse burned down in 1976, the company moved to the recently re-opened Grandin Theatre, an old movie house in an established neighborhood. With the opening of Center in the Square in 1983 came a year-round class schedule and a new name—Mill Mountain Theatre. The growing company’s ever-increasing quality and scope was a major force in the renaissance of downtown Roanoke.

Within its shops and offices spread across the Center in the Square complex, Mill Mountain Theatre has created more than 400 productions, including world and regional premieres; the national hit All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and the American premiere of Children of Eden.

In January 2009, Mill Mountain Theater’s Board of Directors responsibly faced mounted debt by ceasing productions to focus on reorganizing the Theater’s business operations. All staff members, with the exception of the director of education were laid off. At the same time MMT's landord, Center in the Square, undertook a complete reonvation, moving MMT into temporary space.

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