Melbourne Civic Theatre

The award-winning theater was named Winner of Florida Theatre Conference in 1980 with their production of The Dumb Waiter and again in 1990 with Painting Churches, for which IRP mainstay Gillian Wilson also won Best Actress. In 1988, Indian River Players joined the effort to renovate the Henegar Center in Downtown Melbourne, and changed its name to Melbourne Civic Theatre to better identify the community we serve. They were the resident theatre group when the Henegar Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1991, and then a 1999 move took them to the Metro West Shopping Center in West Melbourne, where they renovated the former Meadowland Library into a theater. Since 2006, MCT has made its home in the intimate space at La Galerie arcade in Downtown Melbourne. This 93-seat theater opened as The Ensemble Theatre of Florida in 1986, and was later occupied by The Phoenix Theatre.