Mission
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)
The MCC Theater is planning to move into a larger 25,000-square-foot theater space designed by architect Andrew Berman at 52nd Street and 10th Avenue in 2013.
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