| MCC Theater Announces TROPHY BOYS – Performances Begin June 5 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:42 pm EST 12/09/24 | |
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| MCC THEATER ANNOUNCES THE US PREMIERE OF TROPHY BOYS WRITTEN BY AND FEATURING EMMANUELLE MATTANA DIRECTED BY TONY AWARD- WINNER DANYA TAYMOR PREVIEWS BEGIN JUNE 5, 2025 OPENING NIGHT IS JUNE 24, 2025 LIMITED RUN THROUGH JULY 13, 2025 (December 9, 2024 – New York, NY) MCC Theater (Bernie Telsey and Will Cantler, Co-Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) announced today the final production of their 2024-2025 season, the US Premiere of Trophy Boys, by Emmanuelle Mattana and directed by 2024 Tony Award-winner Danya Taymor (The Outsiders). Trophy Boys will begin previews on Thursday June 5, with an opening night set for Tuesday June 24 and a limited run through Sunday July 13, 2025 at MCC Theater's Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater (511 W 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019). "Feminism has failed women." That is the prompt given to the debate team of an elite all-boys prep school one hour before the final match of their high school careers. As they develop compelling arguments to demolish their sister school, a "rumor" leaks about their team that threatens to blow up everything they have worked for. What begins as a riotously funny satire turns into a sharp exploration of power and privilege, from high school to the highest circles of political influence. Following multiple sold-out runs in Australia, playwright Emmanuelle Mattana's Trophy Boys makes its American premiere in a thrilling new production featuring Mattana as part of the cast. Directed by 2024 Tony Award-winner Danya Taymor (The Outsiders), Trophy Boys is a provocative comedy about the singular pursuit of victory, and the cost of reaching it. Additional casting, the creative team, and ticket on-sale for Trophy Boys will be announced at a later date. More information can be found at mcctheater.org. Trophy Boys is produced in association with Kevin Connor & Telegraph Productions Collective (Yes aka Amy Marie Haven, Leon Jones, Tori Lynn, Rachel Menendez, Siani Woods). MCC Theater receives General Operating Support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Shubert Foundation, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, New York State Council on the Arts, the Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, and the Actors' Equity Foundation. The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation has provided 2024-25 season support. Funding for open 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 Robert O'Hara's Shit. Meet. Fan., Douglas Lyons' Table 17, Rachel Bonds and Zoe Sarnak's musical The Lonely Few, 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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