DON'T GO GENTLE, REALLY REALLY Included in MCC's 2012-13 Season

MCC Theater  today announced two exciting productions as part of their 2012-13 three-play mainstage season, which marks the company's 27th consecutive year producing and developing new work by today's most provocative and vibrant artists. 

The Season:

A World Premiere
September 27 – November 4, 2012
Don't Go Gentle
By Stephen Belber
Directed by Lucie Tiberghian

Judge Lawrence Driver: conservative powerhouse on the bench, failure at home. Now retired, widowed, and seeking redemption, Lawrence volunteers to do pro bono legal work with Tanya, a vulnerable ex-con with a troubled teenage son, while working to repair the increasingly complicated relationships with his own adult children. But do-overs don't come easy, and when his newfound generosity is perceived as condescension, Lawrence runs the risk of losing everything.

Don't Go Gentle is a world premiere by Stephen Belber, whose chronicles of moral ambiguity include Tape, Dusk Rings A Bell, and Match on Broadway. Acclaimed director Lucie Tiberghian, a frequent collaborator with Belber, directed his play Geometry of Fire at the Rattlestick Theater. She most recently directed the West Coast premiere of Blood and Gifts at the La Jolla Playhouse.

A New York Premiere
January 31 – March 10, 2013
Really Really
By Paul Downs Colaizzo
Directed by David Cromer

In the hazy aftermath of a wild party, dawn breaks on what appears to be just another day in the undergrad carnival that revolves around a close circle of friends. But when morning-after gossip turns ugly, the veneer of loyalty and friendship is peeled back to reveal a vicious jungle of sexual politics, raw ambition, and class warfare where only the strong could possibly survive.

Paul Downs Colaizzo's startlingly funny, booze-soaked cornucopia was a hit last season at D.C.'s Signature Theater. Really Really now gets its New York premiere in a new production directed by David Cromer, whose visionary take on Our Town took New York by storm in 2009, and whose Tribes is one of this year's biggest Off Broadway hits.

"Having concluded a landmark season at MCC, and are now focused on our next and very exciting season ahead," commented MCC Artistic Director Bernie Telsey. "Stephen Belber serves up another morally ambiguous character portrait with his signature go-for-the-jugular style in Don't Go Gentle. The play's world premiere, directed by Belber's frequent collaborator Lucie Tiberghian, will kick off our 27th season. On its heels, we'll introduce New York audiences to the voice of playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo with the New York premiere of Really Really. We're thrilled to be working with David Cromer on this new production of Colaizzo's truly surprising play, which caused a stir earlier this year during its smash-hit run at the Signature Theater in D.C. These two stunning new plays will propel our upcoming season forward to a third attention-grabbing production we're looking forward to announcing shortly."

Season subscriptions for all three 2012-2013 mainstage productions are priced at $115-$155 and are available by visiting www.mcctheater.org. Individual tickets will go on-sale at a later date. All performances will take place at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC).

MCC Theater – founded in 1986 as Manhattan Class Company – is committed to developing and producing new work that challenges artists and rewards audiences. Our mission is carried out through an annual season of world, American, and New York premieres, literary development programs for emerging writers, and ground-breaking education programs that enable more than 1,000 New York City high school students to find - and use - their own unique voice each year through the creation and performance of original theater pieces. Notable MCC Theater highlights include: the 2008 Tony Award-nominated Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute, The Pride, Fifty Words, the 2004 Tony-winning production of Bryony Lavery's Frozen, Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living, Marsha Norman's Trudy Blue, Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone, Alan Bowne's Beirut, The Submission, winner of the inaugural Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award for new American plays, and last season's newly reworked and fully re-imagined production of Carrie, the musical. Over the years, the dedication to the work of new and emerging artists has earned MCC Theater a variety of awards.

For a complete production history, visit www.mcctheater.org.