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.
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