MCC Theater's 2006-2007 season will include a 10th anniversary production of Russell Lees' Nixon's Nixon and the world premiere of In a Dark, Dark House by Neil LaBute, who was recently named MCC playwright in residence. The company's mainstage season including a third play to be named later will be presented at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, which currently houses MCC's production of LaBute's Some Girls.
The season kicks off with Nixon's Nixon, which will run from September 20-October 28, with an official opening night of October 4. The production reunites original stars Gerry Bamman as Richard Nixon, and Steve Mellor as Henry Kissinger and their director, Jim Simpson. The intermission-less play imagines the conversation that took place when Nixon summoned his Secretary of State to the White House for a secret meeting on August 7, 1974, the night before he resigned. Nixon's Nixon was a popular hit for MCC in the fall of 1995 and transferred to the Westside Theater in March 1996 for a commercial run.
LaBute's In a Dark, Dark House begins performances on May 16, 2007, and is scheduled to run through June 23, 2007, with an opening night on June 7. It is described as a drama about a man and his complicated relationship with his complicated father. No director or cast members have been set. MCC had previously announced that it would present a different LaBute play, Swallowing Bicycles, this season, but replaced it with Some Girls. The prolific playwright will also be represented off-Broadway next season by Wrecks, to be produced at the Public Theater.
The third, unnamed play is scheduled to run at the Lortel from January 31, 2007-March 10, 2007. Robert LuPone and Bernard Telsey serve as artistic directors of MCC.
