MCC to Present Grace, Spain and a Musical, The Black Suits in 2007-08 Season

An import from London's Soho Theatre, Grace, a new play by Mick Gordon and AC Grayling, will run at the off-Broadway theater from August 29 through October 20. When noted scientist Grace Friedman learns that her son Tom has decided to become a Christian minister, she is forced to confront the meaning of both her atheist convictions and maternal impulses. Tom¹s father and pregnant girlfriend are caught in the cross-fire between mother and son that leads to a tragic twist.

Jim Knable's Spain is set to run from January 23 through March 8. A romantic play, it concerns Barbara, a recent divorcee who retreats into her very active imagination where she meets a sexy Conquistador. Together, they embark on a fanciful journey to a country she has long dreamed of visiting. Spain is billed as a touching tale in which a disenchanted, lonely woman finds her way to self-knowledge and self-confidence through the simple, profound act of loving and being loved.

The musical The Black Suits will run from May 14 through July 5. It is written by Joe Iconis and Robert Maddock, both recipients of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. Haunted by the prospect of a dead-end life in a working-class Long Island suburb, Chris decides to push forward with his dream. He relentlessly rehearses his band in the garage with the goal of a breakthrough from hopelessness to fame and escape. Problem is nobody in the group wants it as much as he does. This musical follows Chris and his best friend John over a rocky landscape of love lost and won, inertia, betrayal and panic attacks as they struggle toward the seemingly impossible challenge of making their lives matter.