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MCC Theater

American theater company

Summary

American theater company

Field	Value
name	Manhattan Class Company Theater
logo	MCC Theater.png
logo_size	200px
founded	in New York, New York
founders

MCC Theater (Manhattan Class Company) is an off-Broadway theater company located in New York City. The theater was founded in 1986 by artistic directors Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey and William Cantler. Blake West joined the company in 2006 as executive director. MCC opened its current location in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, as The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, on January 9, 2019.

Productions

MCC Theater's productions include:

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 Happy, 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 the musicals Coraline, Carrie, and Ride the Cyclone.

Many plays developed and produced by MCC have gone on to productions throughout the country and around the world.

Key players

Robert LuPone – Artistic Director
Bernard Telsey – Artistic Director
William Cantler – Artistic Director
Blake West – Executive Director

Artists

MCC has engaged a collection of directors and artists that have included:

Lynn Redgrave
Michael Greif
Jo Bonney
Doug Hughes
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Julianna 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
Raúl Esparza
John Spencer
Kathleen Turner
Stephin Merritt
David Greenspan
Piper Perabo
Frederick Weller
Sarah Paulson
Dominic Chianese
Hugh Dancy
Ben Whishaw
Charles Busch
Kara Young

Mainstage productions

2022–2024

Shit. Meet. Fan. by Robert O'Hara
Only Gold by Kate Nash, Andy Blankenbuehler and Ted Malawer
Wolf Play by Hansol Jung
Bees and Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen
Wet Brain by John J. Caswell, Jr.

2021–2022

Nollywood Dreams by Jocelyn Bioh
Space Dogs (musical) by Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes (actor/writer)
Which Way to the Stage by Ana Nogueira
Uncensored
Soft by Donja R. Love

2019–2020

The Wrong Man by Ross Golan
Seared by Theresa Rebeck
All the Natalie Portmans by C.A. Johnson
Nollywood Dreams by Jocelyn Bioh
Perry Street by Lucy Thurber

2018–2019

The Light by Loy A. Webb
Alice by Heart by Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater and Jesse Nelson
BLKS by Aziza Barnes
Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow by Halley Feiffer

2017–2018

Charm by Philip Dawkins
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh
Relevance by JC Lee
Transfers by Lucy Thurber
Collective Rage by Jen Silverman 2016–2017
All The Ways to Say I Love You by Neil LaBute
Ride the Cyclone by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
YEN by Anna Jordan
The End of Longing by Matthew Perry 2015–2016
The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez
Lost Girls by John Pollono
Smokefall by Noah Haidle
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecological Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York by Halley Feiffer 2014–2015
The Money Shot by Neil LaBute
Punk Rock by Simon Stephens
The Nether by Jennifer Haley
Permission by Robert Askins 2013–2014
Small Engine Repair by John Pollono
Hand to God by Robert Askins
The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner 2012–2013
Don't Go Gentle by Stephen Belber
Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo
Reasons to Be Happy by Neil LaBute 2011–2012
The Submission by Jeff Talbott
Wild Animals You Should Know by Thomas Higgins
Carrie by Lawrence D. Cohen 2010–2011
The Break of Noon book by Neil LaBute
The Other Place by Sharr White
Side Effects by Michael Weller 2009–2010
Family Week book by Beth Henley
The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell
Still Life by Alexander Dinelaris 2008–2009
Coraline book by David Greenspan, music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt
Fifty Words by Michael Weller
The Third Story by Charles Busch 2007–2008
Spain by Jim Knable
Grace by Mick Gordon and A. C. Grayling
reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute 2006–2007
In A Dark Dark House by Neil LaBute
A Very Common Procedure by Courtney Baron
Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees 2005–2006
Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute
The Wooden Breeks by Glen Berger
Colder than Here by Laura Wade 2004–2005
Last Easter by Bryony Lavery
Fat Pig by Neil LaBute
What of the Night based on the writings of Djuna Barnes 2003–2004
Bright Ideas by Eric Coble
Frozen by Bryony Lavery
The Distance from Here by Neil LaBute 2002–2003
Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute
Scattergood by Anto Howard
Intrigue with Faye by Kate Robin 2001–2002
The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
Runt of the Litter by Bo Eason
A Letter from Ethel Kennedy by Christopher Gorman 2000–2001
A Place at the Table by Simon Block
High Dive by Leslie Ayvazian
The Dead Eye Boy by Angus MacLachlan 1999–2000
Trudy Blue by Marsha Norman
Sueño by Jose Rivera
Yard Gal by Rebecca Prichard 1998–1999
Wit by Margaret Edson
The English Teachers by Ed Napier
Angelique by Lorena Gale 1997–1998
Anadarko by Tim Blake Nelson 1996–1997
The Gravity of Means by John Kolvenbach
Good as New by Peter Hedges 1995–1996
Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees
The Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson
Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman 1994–1995
Girl Gone by Jacquelyn Reingold 1993–1994
The Able Bodied Seaman by Alan Bowne
Liar, Liar by Dael Orlandersmith 1992–1993
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball
D Train by James Bosley and Fay Simpson 1991–1992
A Snake in the Vein by Alan Bowne 1987–1988
Beirut by Alan Bowne

References

"MCC Theater / New York City Off-Broadway Theater Company".
Winner of the 2015 Obie Award: [http://www.obieawards.com/2015/05/2015-obie-award-winners-announced/ 2015 Obie Awards]

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