MCC Theater is an Off-Broadway theater company located in New York City, founded in 1986 by artistic directors Robert LuPone and Bernard Telsey along with six graduates of the New York University drama department, including Jana Herzen. Guided by the artistic vision of LuPone, Telsey and associate artistic director William Cantler, MCC Theater brings together exceptional theater artists to produce works that force audiences to reexamine the world through the unique perspectives of extraordinary writers.
Contents |
MCC Theater was founded in 1986 as Manhattan Class Company, then a collective of young actors, writers and directors eager to take a leadership role in their own artistic development. Initial peer-based “classes” led to showcases and eventually to the kinds of full-scale productions that have made MCC Theater one of New York’s leading off-Broadway theater companies.
MCC Theater carries out its mission through an annual three-play mainstage season, its literary development programs including the unique Playwrights' Coalition, and education and outreach initiatives that include the MCC Theater Youth Company, a free program for high school students, and several in-school partnerships.
PAST PRODUCTIONS include Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty (moving to Broadway in 2009), In A Dark Dark House, Some Girl(s) and Fat Pig; Frozen (which moved to Broadway in 2004); Wit (winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1999)
MCC has engaged a collection of notable directors and artists that have included: Lynn Redgrave, Michael Greif, Jo Bonney, Doug Hughes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Juliana Margulies, Liev Schreiber, Jim Simpson, Benjamin Bratt, Swoosie Kurtz, Kathleen Chalfant, Allison Janney, Anna Paquin, Judith Light, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor, Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Piven, Keri Russell, Calista Flockhart, Bridget Fonda, Eric McCormack, Fran Drescher, Peter Hedges, Jane Alexander, Ron Livingston, Ben Shenkman, Maura Tierney, Kyra Sedgwick, Joanna Gleason, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Gil Bellows, Polly Draper, Thomas Gibson, Michael C. Hall, Lisa Harrow,Derek Anson Jones, John Spencer, Kathleen Turner, Charles Busch, Stephin Merritt, David Greenspan, Piper Perabo, Frederick Weller, Sarah Paulson, Dominic Chianese, Hugh Dancy, Ben Whishaw, and Charles Busch.
2009-2010
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002
2000-2001
1999-2000
1998-1999
1997-1998
1996-1997
1995-1996
1994-1995
1993-1994
1992-1993
1991-1992
1987-1988
Fifty Words by Michael Weller
reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute
Grace by Mick Gordan and AC Grayling
Spain by Jim Knable
The Wooden Breeks by Neil LaBute
Last Easter by Bryony Lavery
The Distance From Here by Neil LaBute
The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
The Dead Eye Boy by Angus MacLachlan
Good as New by Peter Hedges, Directed by Brian Mertes
Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees, directed by Jim Simpson
The Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson
Girl Gone by Jacquelyn Reingold
Beirut by Alan Bowne