Winter 2025 Festival of New Works Events through our partnership with Mill Mountain Theatre
For more than four decades, Mill Mountain Theatre has had the development of new plays as part of their core mission. They have been home to a prominent national playwriting contest, premieres of new plays on both the Trinkle and Waldron stages, the Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works, CenterPieces and their ongoing partnership with the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University has helped Roanoke gain an international reputation as an artistic home for new work since that program launched in 2007. Each year, Hollins brings dozens of professional theatre artists from all over the globe to our city as faculty, guest speakers and visiting artists mounting productions.
This year, the Winter Festival of New Works features two plays, please read below to learn more about these shows.
Nuptial Mass
Written by Ben Abbott. Directed by David Veatch.
Jeff has been looking forward to getting married his whole life. But when his fiancee doesn't show up at the church on the morning of the wedding, he scrambles to figure out where she is and why. What will it take for the wedding to go forward as planned? Is he prepared for the secrets that will come to light as he tries?
Nuptial Mass contains queer themes, religious themes, and simulated, comical drug use.
Buy Tickets
