Matthew Perry's Playwriting Debut, Judith Light in a Neil LaBute Solo Show & More Set for MCC Theater's 2016-17 Season

MCC Theater has announced its 2016-17 season. The off-Broadway lineup includes a reworked version of Matthew Perry’s The End of Longing, which previously premiered in London, and a one-woman show by Neil LaBute starring Judith Light.

The season kicks off on September 6 with LaBute's new play All the Ways to Say I Love You with Light center stage. Leigh Silverman will direct the show, which follows a high school English teacher and guidance counselor as she recalls her experiences with a former student. Performances will run through October 9.

Next up is Ride the Cyclone, a musical by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. The show played the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in November and follows a group of high school chorus members involved in a fatal roller coaster accident. Performances will run from November 3 through December 18; Rachel Rockwell will direct.

Following a run at the Royal Court Theater in London, Anna Jordon’s Yen will make its New York premiere beginning February 2, 2017. The play, directed by Trip Cullman, follows two brothers whose solitary lives are disrupted when their neighbor takes an interest in their dog (named Taliban). It is scheduled to run through March 12.

The season concludes with Perry's The End of Longing, running from May 18, 2017 through June 24. The Friends alum will also reprise his performance in the show, which follows four people in a Los Angeles bar whose lives become irreversibly entwined after one raucous night. The Lindsay Posner-helmed production ends its West End run this week on May 14.

Additional casting for the four productions will be announced at a later time.