JUST ANNOUNCED: Joe Mantello to direct Laurie Metcalf Amanda Peet to join David Duchovny in The Break of Noon.

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World Premiere
October 28-December 12, 2010
The Break of Noon
by Neil LaBute
with David Duchovny, Amanda Peet
directed by Jo Bonney

The Break of Noon marks Neil LaBute’s seventh collaboration with MCC Theater as Playwright-in-Residence, following the 2009 Tony Award-nominated Best Play, Reasons to be Pretty. Renowned for his darkly-comic morality plays (The Shape of Things, In a Dark Dark House), he teams up again with longtime collaborator, director Jo Bonney (Some Girl(s), Fat Pig), for this exploration of the daunting, sometimes harrowing process of “finding religion.”

David Duchovny (Californication, The X-Files) will star as John Smith, a man who, amidst the chaos and horror of the worst office shooting in American history, sees the face of God. His modern-day revelation creates a maelstrom of disbelief among everyone he knows. A newcomer to faith, John urgently searches for a modern response to the age-old question: at what cost salvation?

A co-production with the Geffen Playhouse.

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World Premiere
March 10-April 24, 2011
The Other Place
by Sharr White
with Laurie Metcalf
directed by Joe Mantello

Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf (November, Roseanne) teams with Tony Award winning director Joe Mantello (The Pride, Glengarry Glen Ross) to stage this new emotional thriller by fast-rising playwright Sharr White. 

Just as Juliana Smithton’s research leads to a potential breakthrough in Alzheimer treatment drugs, her life takes a disorienting turn.  During a lecture to colleagues at an exclusive beach resort, she glimpses an enigmatic young woman in a yellow bikini amidst the crowd of business suits. One step at a time, a mystery unravels as contradictory evidence, blurred truth and fragmented memories collide in a cottage on the windswept shores of Cape Cod.

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World Premiere
May 12-June 26, 2011
Side Effects
by Michael Weller

MCC Theater’s acclaimed 2008 hit Fifty Words (which starred Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Marvel) culminated in one desperate phone call. Side Effects is the story of what happened on the other end of the line. This harrowing and unique journey is expertly plotted by playwright Michael Weller, noted for Loose Ends and Moonchildren, a seminal work for the American stage.

Hugh and Lindy's marriage seems picture-perfect, a beacon in their microcosmic Midwestern world of dinner parties and fundraisers. Behind closed doors they’re falling apart - doors they can barely keep shut - and Hugh’s rising political star is suddenly imperiled.

 

*Schedule and programming subject to change.