142 Throckmorton Theatre Youth & All-Ages Theatre Programs

142 Throckmorton Theatre Youth & All-Ages Theatre Programs offers a season of theatre that includes both youth and all-ages in its casting. The program also includes concerts, a weekly comedy show, master classes and workshops, fine art exhibitions, and spoken word events.

Today the theatre describes itself as a “people’s theatre” where everyone can come together in an intimate space to imagine, take risks, laugh out loud, and begin to more deeply understand each other. Its programs are described as being designed to foster creative thinking outside the molds of everyday lives, with creativity, reaching high, magic, and a driving interest in all people and the natural world named as common themes. The theatre opened in 1912 as The Hub Theater, a vaudeville and silent movie theatre that was the heart of the town’s artistic life, closed when “talkies” moved to the Sequoia in 1929, and was purchased by the Odd Fellows Lodge in the 1950s. In the 1970s, the space was rented to the Mill Valley Film Festival, then known as Saturday Night Movies, and the Lodge became the first home of the Festival. The leadership team includes Artistic Director Lucy Mercer, Head Scenic Designer Steve Coleman, Programs Director Reba Gilbert, Technical Director JP Larosée, Box Office Manager Barb Nimmons, Concessions Manager Nelly Furgiule, Volunteer Manager and Box Office Staff member Patti Melin, Curator for Noon Concerts Beni Shinohara, and Marketing/Website Design Consultant Gaby Mercer Slomoff.

Last updated June 22, 2026.