After 12 months of virtual offerings, MCC Theater will return to in-person productions this fall. Five productions have been announced for the upcoming season, with scheduled performances through to June 2022.
MCC Theater has officially announced their 2021-2022 season, which is expected to kick off in October 2021 with Nollywood Dreams by Burnt Umber Playwright-in-Residence Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play) and directed by Saheem Ali (Fires in The Mirror).
In January 2022 MCC will present a full production of the previously announced Space Dogs, a new musical by Van Hughes (Burn All Night) and Nick Blaemire (Glory Days). Here She Is, Boys, by Ana Nogueira (Empathitrax) and directed by Mike Donahue (MCC s Collective Rage), will premiere in April 2022.
The season will conclude in May 2022 with soft by Donja R. Love (one in two) and directed by Whitney White (What to Send Up When It Goes Down). MCC will also present Uncensored, an MCC Youth Company Production, in Spring of 2022.
Jocelyn Bioh (Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com)
MCC Theater is giving an update on its 2021-2022 season. Exact dates and casting for all productions is to be announced. The off-Broadway theater company will kick-off its return to in-person theater with its previously canceled production of Jocelyn Bioh s
Nollywood Dreams.
Directed by Saheem Ali,
Nollywood Dreams will play the Newman Mills Theater in October. The story takes plase in the 1990s in Lagos, Nigeria. There the Nollywood film industry is exploding and taking the world by storm. Ayamma dreams of stardom while working at her parents’ travel agency alongside her lovable and celebrity-obsessed sister Dede. When Ayamma lands an audition for a new film by Gbenga Ezie, Nigeria’s hottest director, she comes head-to-head with Gbenga’s former leading lady, Fayola. Tensions flare just as sparks start flying between Ayamma, the aspiring ingénue, and Wale, Nollywood’s biggest heartthrob, in this hilarious new pl
The Huntington will present the virtual premiere of
Eleanor Burgess s
Lisa Banes and
Jordan Boatman. The show is free and will be available until June 13. Viewers can sign up to see it here.
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Changemakers, a collection of 20 original, two-minute plays and musicals inspired by community leaders, activists, and front-line workers who have fought for change over the course of the past year.
Changemakers explores our nation s most critical current events, told through a series of comic and dramatic vignettes created specifically for this moment. This collaborative work, written by commissioned playwrights working alongside students from University of Kansas, premiered this spring before a limited, in-person audience, and is now streaming, for free, on YouTube. To watch, click here.