Our 2025/26 Season

MCC

WELCOME TO OUR 2025-26 SEASON!

Our 2025/26 season features Tony Award®-winning artists, a world premiere play, and two more exciting shows to be announced soon. The MCC Youth Company returns, sharing their unique perspectives in their annual UNCENSORED production, and developing playwrights share their work through FRESHPLAY readings and festival. Join us for illuminating stories and thought-provoking experiences meant to continue the conversations long after the curtain closes.

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CAROLINE

PERFORMANCES BEGIN SEP 12

Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater

A world premiere play starring AMY LANDECKER (BUG, “TRANSPARENT”), RIVER LIPE-SMITH (Geva Theatre’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL), and CHLOË GRACE MORETZ (“THE PERIPHERAL,” THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST). Written by PRESTON MAX ALLEN (WE ARE THE TIGERS) and directed by Tony Award Winner DAVID CROMER (DEAD OUTLAW, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK), CAROLINE is a luminous and intimate story about the possibility of redemption and the complex relationships between generations of mothers and daughters.

COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE

PERFORMANCES BEGIN FEB 2026

The Newman Mills Theater

Dear Santa, for Christmas this year I want a Pound Puppy, a Speak + Spell, and a nuclear radiation detector.

In this celebrated play directed by Tony Award nominee KNUD ADAMS (ENGLISH), a prominent Black conservative brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays, setting long simmering tensions with his estranged family to boil. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults—underscored by the Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.

A Co-Production with Clubbed Thumb and Page 73

BIRTHRIGHT

PERFORMANCES BEGIN JUN 2026

The Newman Mills Theater

What begins as a reunion among six young friends after a Birthright trip to Israel becomes, over the span of nearly two decades, an exploration of identity, memory, and what it means to belong in BIRTHRIGHT by Tony Award winner JONATHAN SPECTOR (EUREKA DAY) and directed by TEDDY BERGMAN (KPOP). As these friends grow up and the world around them shifts in ways they could never have imagined, they find themselves confronting seismic questions: How do we carry the weight of history? How do we define who we are, and who we want to be? And what happens when the narratives we inherit no longer fit the lives we’re living?

Birthright is produced by Special Arrangement with Jenny Gersten and Sonia Friedman Productions.

Birthright was commissioned and developed by Miami New Drama. World Premiere presented by Miami New Drama, April 2024, Michel Hausmann-Artistic Director; Nicholas Richberg-Managing Director.

MCC THEATER receives General Operating Support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Shubert Foundation, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the Actors’ Equity Foundation, and the Lambs Foundation. Funding for open caption performances is provided, in part, by a grant from NYSCA/TDF TAP Plus.

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.

MCC receives additional support from Harold J. Newman† & Ruth Newman, the Eric Rosedale Playwriting Fund, the MacMillan Family Foundation, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, the Tiger Baron Foundation, the Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, the Giving Bee Family Foundation, the Burton A. and Sandra D. Zipser Foundation, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Axe-Houghton Foundation, the Find Your Light Foundation, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council.

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