Mountain Theatre Company is one of North Carolina’s oldest theatre companies. It began at The Highlands Playhouse, which was originally built as the auditorium for the Highlands School in 1931. In the mid-1930s, Jack and Virginia “Ted” Wilcox helped to create the first troupe of actors in Highlands. All amateurs, they began using the auditorium for summer theatre productions while school was out of session. The troupe of summer players formally organized as the Highlands Little Theatre in the late 1930s. The Highlands Little Theatre was renamed Highlands Community Theatre in 1949. Over the decades, this dedicated troupe of players put on important works by notable authors
