In Meredith Dayna Cope-Levy’s “The Bread Baking Play,” the actors make bread loaves from scratch in front of a live audience.
Mike Allen
Mike Allen is a Minnesota-born freelance writer and editor living in the Roanoke Valley.
Arts developer eyes Roanoke for first Virginia project
Minneapolis-based Artspace is looking at the Riverdale development — the former American Viscose property — as a place to create living and working spaces for artists.
Mill Mountain Theatre marks 60th anniversary with show tunes and Top 40 hits
The shows take place Friday and Saturday. The theater’s 60th season also will bring back productions from previous years such as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Annie.”
Ginger Poole, who brought Mill Mountain Theatre back to life, bids adieu
The producing artistic director says that this upcoming season will be her last.
Much of Roanoke’s historic Black neighborhood was lost to urban renewal. One artist’s drawings bring it back to life.
The late David Ramey drew scenes from Gainsboro from memory. Now his work is celebrated in a major exhibition at the Taubman Museum and a review by a New York-based publication.
Roanoke dedicates Henrietta Lacks statue Wednesday
The Roanoke native is considered the “mother of modern medicine” because cells harvested from her body after her death in 1951 have been essential to major medical breakthroughs.
Canceled shows put Mill Mountain Theatre in the red. COVID relief funds saved it.
The professional theater in Roanoke fell $239,000 short on ticket sales in 2022. CARES act funding helped get the theatre through, and it will feature all musicals in 2023, which generate more revenue.