MCC Theater


MCC Theater 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
  • John Pollono's Small Engine Repair
  • Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really
  • Sharr White's The Other Place
  • Jeff Talbott's The Submission
  • Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, Reasons to Be Pretty, Some Girl, 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
  • Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone
  • Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living
  • Margaret Edson's Wit 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

MCC has engaged a collection of directors and artists that have included:
2022–2024
2021–2022
  • Nollywood Dreams by Jocelyn Bioh
  • Space Dogs by Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes
  • Which Way to the Stage by Ana Nogueira
  • Uncensored
  • Soft by Donja R. Love
2019–2020
2018–2019
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
2015–2016
2014–2015
2013–2014
  • Small Engine Repair by John Pollono
  • Hand to God by Robert Askins
  • The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner
2012–2013
2011–2012
  • The Submission by Jeff Talbott
  • Wild Animals You Should Know by Thomas Higgins
  • Carrie by Lawrence D. Cohen
2010–2011
2009–2010
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
2004–2005
2003–2004
  • Bright Ideas by Eric Coble
  • Frozen by Bryony Lavery
  • The Distance from Here by Neil LaBute
2002–2003
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
1999–2000
1998–1999
1997–1998
1996–1997
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
1993–1994
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