| MCC Theater Announces 2024-2025 Season Including Two World Premiere Plays | |
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| MCC THEATER ANNOUNCES INITIAL PRODUCTIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS FOR THEIR 2024-25 SEASON THE WORLD PREMIERE OF TABLE 17 BY DOUGLAS LYONS DIRECTED BY ZHAILON LEVINGSTON FEATURING BIKO EISEN-MARTIN, MICHAEL RISHAWN, & THREE-TIME TONY AWARD NOMINEE KARA YOUNG PREVIEWS BEGIN AUGUST 14, 2024 LIMITED RUN THROUGH SEPTEMBER 22, 2024 THE WORLD PREMIERE OF SHIT. MEET. FAN. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY OBIE AWARD WINNER AND TONY AWARD NOMINEE ROBERT O'HARA OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2024 THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF MISCAST SPRING 2025 MCC YOUTH COMPANY PRODUCTIONS UNCENSORED & FRESHPLAY FESTIVAL SPRING 2025 WITH A NEW PRODUCTION STILL TO BE ANNOUNCED SPRING 2025 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS ON-SALE TODAY (May 13, 2024 – New York, NY) MCC Theater (Bernie Telsey and Will Cantler, Co-Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) announced today the initial two productions of their 2024-2025 season, as well as the 25th anniversary of Miscast and their annual MCC Youth Company productions. MCC's Fall 2024 season will begin in August with the World Premiere of Table 17, by Douglas Lyons (Chicken & Biscuits), directed by Zhailon Levingston (Cats: The Jellicle Ball), and featuring Biko Eisen-Martin (MCC's soft), Michael Rishawn (Ain't No Mo'), and three-time Tony Award nominee Kara Young (MCC's All the Natalie Portmans, Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Clyde's, The Cost of Living). In October, MCC will present the World Premiere of Shit. Meet. Fan. written and directed by Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Robert O'Hara (MCC's BLKS, Slave Play, Bootycandy), and based on the Italian film Perfect Strangers by Paolo Genovese – the most remade film in cinema history. In Spring 2025, MCC will present the 25th anniversary of Miscast, as well as the annual MCC Youth Company Productions, Uncensored and Freshplay Festival. MCC will also present an additional production in Spring 2025. Details will be announced shortly. MCC Artistic Directors Will Cantler and Bernie Telsey share, "We love to give our audiences something to talk to us about, and that is exactly what we are doing this year. Our 2024-25 season promises big laughs, relatable stories about complex and flawed people, and new work from award-winning theater artists. We'll see you in the lobby!" Three-Show season subscription packages begin at $175 plus fees, and include Table 17, Shit. Meet. Fan., and a spring production to be announced at a later date. Flex packages are also on sale, beginning at $480 plus fees for eight tickets. Subscribers receive priority access to book tickets before they go on sale to the public, free exchanges, discounted add-on tickets, and more. 2024-25 season subscriptions are now on sale at mcctheater.org. Complete schedules, casting, creative teams, and individual ticket on sale dates will be announced shortly. Details for 2024/2025 Include: The World Premiere of TABLE 17 By Douglas Lyons Directed by Zhailon Levingston Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater Previews begin August 14, 2024 Limited run through September 22, 2024 If your ex wanted to meet up again, would you? Previously engaged, Jada and Dallas reunite for dinner to hash out the good, the bad, and the ugly from their romantic past. Despite the intrusion of sassy waiters, complicated memories, and their best efforts to keep things casual, the estranged couple find themselves cornered by the truth. From the author and director of Chicken & Biscuits (Douglas Lyons & Zhailon Levingston), this world premiere play is a hilarious and sweet open letter to love found, lost, and possibly reignited. This new romantic comedy stars three-time Tony Award nominee Kara Young (MCC's All the Natalie Portmans, Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Clyde's, The Cost of Living), Biko Eisen-Martin (MCC's soft) and Michael Rishawn (Ain't No Mo'). Table 17 is presented in association with Jeffrey Richards & Mark Cortale. Table 17 was commissioned in 2022 by New Works Provincetown. The World Premiere of SHIT. MEET. FAN. Written and directed by Robert O'Hara Based on the Italian film Perfect Strangers by Paolo Genovese The Newman Mills Theater October – November 2024 Here's the game... Phones Out. Face Up. Volume High. Every text, every email, every call must be shared aloud. That's what a group of long-time friends gather to play on the night of the eclipse. With the cocktails flowing among grownups who refuse to grow up, outrageous secrets and skeletons begin to emerge... Shit. Meet. Fan. Are they ready for the ensuing chaos? Are you? The mayhem unfolds in real time in this World Premiere uproarious new satire written and directed by Tony Award nominee Robert O'Hara (MCC's BLKS, Slave Play, Bootycandy). Shit. Meet. Fan. is supported in part by the R&S Shulman Fund, which supports artistic development and production of new plays, as well as development and engagement activities, with a focus on work by African American playwrights. UNCENSORED & FRESHPLAY FESTIVAL MCC Youth Company Productions Spring 2025 The MCC Theater Youth Company will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. The season will include annual favorites UNCENSORED and FRESHPLAY and a full calendar of Public Engagement events. MCC Theater's Education Programs are supported by Axe-Houghton Foundation, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, Harold J. Newman† & Ruth Newman, the Eric Rosedale Playwriting Fund, the Tiger Baron Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. MCC Theater receives General Operating Support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Shubert Foundation, the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, the Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, and the Actors' Equity Foundation. MCC Theater's play development programs are supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Burton A. and Sandra D. Zipser Foundation. Funding for closed caption performances is provided, in part, by a grant from NYSCA/TDF TAP Plus. ABOUT MCC THEATER MCC Theater is one of New York's leading nonprofit Off-Broadway companies, driven by a mission to provoke conversations that have never happened and otherwise never would. Founded in 1986 by Bob LuPone (1946-2022) and Bernie Telsey, and later joined by co-Artistic Director Will Cantler, as a collective of artists leading peer-based classes to support their own development as actors, writers and directors, MCC fulfills its mission through the production of world, American, and New York premiere plays and musicals that challenge artists and audiences to confront contemporary personal and social issues, and robust playwright development and education initiatives that foster the next generation of theater artists and students. MCC Theater's celebrated productions include Jason Robert Brown, Daisy Prince, and Jonathan Marc Sherman's world premiere musical The Connector, Gavin Creel's Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice, Hansol Jung's Wolf Play (Five Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play); Guadalís Del Carmen's Bees & Honey (Three HOLA awards including Outstanding Play and Outstanding Production); John J. Caswell, Jr.'s Wet Brain, Kate Nash's Only Gold with a book by Andy Blankenbuehler and Ted Malawer; Donja R. Love's soft; Ross Golan's The Wrong Man; Aziza Barnes' BLKS; Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play; Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike; Robert Askins' Hand to God (Broadway transfer; five 2015 Tony Award® nominations including Best Play); John Pollono's Small Engine Repair; Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really; Sharr White's The Other Place (Broadway transfer); Jeff Talbott's The Submission (Laurents/Hatcher Award); Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty (Broadway transfer, three 2009 Tony Award® nominations, including Best Play), Some Girl(s), Fat Pig, The Mercy Seat, and All The Ways To Say I Love You; Michael Weller's Fifty Words; Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride; Bryony Lavery's Frozen (Broadway transfer; four 2004 Tony Award® nominations including Best Play, Tony Award® for Best Featured Actor); Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone; Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living (2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Margaret Edson's Wit (1999 Pulitzer Prize); and musicals including Alice by Heart, Ride the Cyclone, Carrie, and Coraline. Many plays developed and produced by MCC have gone on to productions throughout the country and around the world. Over the years MCC has worked with thousands of students through the innovative MCC Youth Company, school partnerships, and student matinee programs. Executive Director Blake West joined the company in 2006. MCC opened the doors to its new home in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, on January 9, 2019, unifying the company's activities under one roof for the first time and expanding its producing, artist development, and education programming. MCC founding Co-Artistic Director Bob LuPone sadly passed away on August 27, 2022. MCC continues to honor his fierce need for engagement with the art, the artists, and the audience and remember the profound impact he had on everyone who entered its spaces. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT MCCTheater.org |
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