| MCC Theater Announces 2022-23 Season | |
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| MCC THEATER ANNOUNCES 2022-23 SEASON THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ONLY GOLD MUSIC AND LYRICS BY KATE NASH BOOK BY ANDY BLANKENBUEHLER AND TED MALAWER DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY ANDY BLANKENBUEHLER OCTOBER 2022 SOHO REP’S WOLF PLAY IN COLLABORATION WITH MA-YI THEATER COMPANY BY HANSOL JUNG DIRECTED BY DUSTIN WILLS JANUARY 2023 THE WORLD PREMIERE OF BEES AND HONEY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SOL PROJECT BY GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN DIRECTED BY MELISSA CRESPO MAY 2023 THE WORLD PREMIERE OF WET BRAIN A CO-PRODUCTION WITH PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS BY JOHN J. CASWELL, JR. DIRECTED BY DUSTIN WILLS MAY 2023 UNCENSORED AN MCC YOUTH COMPANY PRODUCTION SPRING 2023 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS ON-SALE TODAY (June 16, 2022 – New York, NY)MCC Theater (Bob LuPone, Bernie Telsey, Will Cantler, Co-Artistic Directors; Blake West,Executive Director) announced today their 2022-2023 season. MCC’s season will open in October with the World Premiere of Only Gold, a new musical with music and lyrics by Kate Nash (GLOW) and a book by Tony Award winner Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton) and Ted Malawer (Everything Beautiful Happens at Night). Blankenbuehler will also direct and choreograph the production. The season will continue in January with Soho Rep’s Wolf Play, in collaboration with Ma-Yi Theater Company, by Hansol Jung (Wild Goose Dreams) and directed by Dustin Wills (Wolf Play, Soho Rep) followed by the World Premiere of Bees and Honey, in collaboration with The Sol Project, by Guadalís Del Carmen (My Father’s Keeper) and directed by Melissa Crespo (Native Gardens) in May. MCC will also co-produce the World Premiere production of Wet Brain by John J. Caswell, Jr (Man Cave)and directed by Dustin Wills with Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director Adam Greenfield, Managing Director Leslie Marcus )in May 2023 at Playwrights Horizons’ Mainstage Theater. MCC will present the 22nd Edition of Uncensored, an MCC Youth Company Production, in Spring of 2023. Dates, casting, creative teams, and individual ticket on sales will be announced at a later date. Details for 2022/2023 Include: The World Premiere of ONLY GOLD Music & Lyrics by Kate Nash Book by Andy Blankenbuehler and Ted Malawer Directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler Newman Mills Theater October 2022 From the imagination of Tony Award-winning Hamilton choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, featuring music by British pop sensation Kate Nash and a book co-written by Ted Malawer, comes an electrifying theatrical dance musical. In Only Gold, a royal family’s arrival in Paris sets a flurry of activity into motion, forcing nobility and townsfolk alike to examine the choices they’ve made. As loyalties and loves are tested, will they find the courage to follow their hearts Paris will never be the same. Only Gold is supported by The Gary Platt Initiative for New Musicals. Soho Rep’s WOLF PLAY In collaboration with Ma-Yi Theater Company By Hansol Jung Directed by Dustin Wills Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater January 2023 When an off-the-record adoption goes awry, Jeenu's new parents learn just how far a wolf will go to defend its pack. Hansol Jung's Wolf Play is directed by Dustin Wills with exuberant imagination as MCC brings the critically acclaimed sold out Soho Rep production back to the stage. BEES AND HONEY In collaboration with The Sol Project By Guadalís Del Carmen Directed by Melissa Crespo Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater May 2023 In Bees and Honey, married couple Manuel and Johaira are entering new phases in their lives. But as the challenges of life and marriage mount, the young and ambitious couple must answer the age-old question: Is Love enough Inspired by Juan Luis Guerra’s Como Abeja Al Panal, this Washington Heights love story is written by Guadalís Del Carmen and directed by Melissa Crespo. WET BRAIN Co-Produced with Playwrights Horizons By John J. Caswell, Jr. Directed by Dustin Wills Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater May 2023 In a crumbling house in Arizona, a family haunted by addiction — and hardened into smart-asses — wrestles with the alcoholic ruin of its patriarch… who may or may not be repeatedly abducted by aliens. With humor and horror, John J. Caswell, Jr. brings us Wet Brain, the transfixing story of a family mining the depths of loss, traveling lightyears to find a language for closure. UNCENSORED An MCC Youth Company Production Spring 2023 An annual highlight of the MCC calendar, the 22nd Edition of Uncensored will feature New York City teens taking over MCC’s main stage to speak their truth. MCC Youth Company’s Performance Lab and Brooklyn Youth Company branches put on exhilarating shows with student-written monologues, scenes, and ensemble pieces. Uncensored is a celebration of young voices who speak to their experiences, hopes and dreams reflecting on today, while looking toward the future. Their words are emboldened with music and movement, resulting in a show that will bring you to your feet. MCC Theater’s Education Programs are supported by The Ruth and Harold Newman Education Fund, The Pinkerton Foundation, The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, the Tiger Baron Foundation, The Eric Rosedale Playwriting Fund, the Axe-Houghton Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. Priority subscriptions for MCC’s 2022/23 season start at $220 and include all the productions plus unlimited free ticket exchanges, 20% off guest tickets, waived ticket fees, and first access to tickets. Memberships start at $50 and include all of the productions at a discounted rate of $45 per play and $55 per musical ticket, up to three free ticket exchanges per production, 10% off guest tickets, waived ticket fees, and access to tickets ahead of the general public. A no frills Flex Ticket package will also be introduced starting at $220. Subscriptions, memberships, and flex packages are available for purchase beginning today at mcctheater.org. Subscriptions, Memberships and Packages purchased between June 16 and June 30 will receive waived fees totaling $12 per subscriber, membership or flex package. 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 as a collective of artists leading peer-based classes to support their own development as actors, writers and directors, MCC is one of the only theaters in the country led continuously by its founders, Artistic Directors Bob LuPone, Bernie Telsey, and Will Cantler. 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 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 Pollon'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 the musicals The Wrong Man, 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. ABOUT PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS Playwrights Horizons (Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) is a writer's theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights, and to the production of innovative new work. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons' 51-year-old mission is unique; the organization has distinguished itself by a steadfast commitment to centering and advancing the voice of the playwright. It’s a mission that is always timely, and one that’s necessary in the ongoing evolution of theater in this country. Playwrights Horizons believes that playwrights are the great storytellers of our time, offering essential contributions to civic discourse and illuminating life’s greatest paradoxes. And they believe in the singularity of a writer’s voice, valuing the broad, eclectic spectrum and diversity of American writers. At Playwrights Horizons, writers are supported in every stage of their growth through their New Works Lab, POP Master Class series, Soundstage audio program, the Lighthouse Project, and Almanac, their digital magazine. Playwrights Horizons presents a season of productions annually on their two stages, each of which is a world, American, or New York premiere. Much like Playwrights Horizons’ work, their audience is risk-taking and adventurous; and the organization is committed to strengthening their engagement and feeding their curiosity through all of its programming, onsite and online. ABOUT SOHO REP Soho Rep provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice. The organization elevates artists as thought leaders and citizens who change the field and society. Artistic autonomy is paramount at Soho Rep; the organization encourages an unmediated connection between artists and audiences to create a springboard for transformation and rich civic life beyond the walls of its theater. Critics continue to herald Soho Rep as a go-to theater destination for new work.New York Magazine says, “this indispensable theater offers more excitement per chair than any space in town,” and The New York Times says, “The downtown powerhouse… regularly outclasses the work done on many of the city’s larger stages.” Soho Rep was named the “Best Theater in NYC” award by Time Out New York in their 2021 Best of the City Awards.Time Out New York wrote, "Soho Rep isn’t the last word in downtown experimental theater: Better than that, it’s often one of the first words, championing major voices at key points in their careers. Its astounding list of alums includes Richard Maxwell, Young Jean Lee, Adam Bock, Annie Baker, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, David Adjmi, Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Anne Washburn, Aleshea Harris and Jackie Sibblies Drury (whose Fairview, which premiered there, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize). And Soho Rep’s low ticket prices, including 99¢ Sundays, help keep some of the city’s bravest, boldest and wildest theater within the reach of all New Yorkers." ABOUT MA-YI THEATER COMPANY Ma-Yi Theater Company is the acclaimed Off-Broadway not-for-profit organization whose primary mission is to develop and produce new and innovative plays by Asian American writers. Its numerous acclaimed productions include Mike Lew's Teenage Dick and Bike America,Qui Nguyen's The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G and Soul Samurai(with Vampire Cowboys), and Hansol Jung's Among the Dead,Rescue Meby Michi Barall, Lloyd Suh's The Chinese Lady and Lonnie Carter’s The Romance of Magno Rubio. Through programs like the Writers Lab, May-Yi emboldens a new generation of Asian American artists to voice their experiences, while developing a steady stream of quality new works by Asian American playwrights for Ma-Yi’s own performing repertory. New works developed at the Writers Lab have gone on to successful productions around the country, at such theaters as Victory Gardens, Denver Center, South Coast Repertory, Laguna Playhouse, Long Wharf Theater, Woolly Mammoth and the Actors Theatre of Louisville, to name a few. Ma-Yi’s productions have earned 10 Obie Awards, 5 Henry Hewes Award nominations, an Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and Drama Desk nomination for Best Play and the Special Drama Desk Award for “more than two decades of excellence and for nurturing Asian-American voices in stylistically varied and engaging theater.” Ma-Yi Theater is under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Ralph B. Peña. ABOUT THE SOL PROJECT The Sol Project is a national theater initiative dedicated to producing the work of Latiné playwrights in New York City and beyond. Founded in 2016, The Sol Project works in partnership with leading Off-Broadway and regional theaters to amplify Latiné voices and build artistic homes for artists of color. Through the writers we champion, The Sol Project aspires to create a bold, powerful, and kaleidoscopic body of work for the new American theater. The Sol Project launched with the world premiere of Alligator by Hilary Bettis (New Georges), followed by the New York premieres of Seven Spots on the Sun by Martin Zimmerman(Rattlestick Playwrights Theater) and Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro(The Public Theater) in 2017. In the fall of 2018, The Sol Project partnered with Yale Repertory Theatre to produce the world premiere of El Huracán by Charise Castro Smith and in early 2020 partnered with Baltimore Center Stage and The Playwrights Realm to produce the world premiere of Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally by Noah Diaz. In 2022, The Sol Project is partnering with Soho Rep and MCC Theater to produce the world premieres of Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Board Members by Mara Vélez Meléndez and Bees and Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen ,respectively. In addition, The Sol Project produces an annual summer play festival – SolFest –in partnership with Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre to seed the field with new work driven by Latiné playwrights, directors, and actors. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT MCCTheater.org |
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