Manhattan Theatre Club
Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) has called New York City Center its off-Broadway home since 1984 when they created the 300-seat Stage I and 150-seat Stage II. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Director Chris Jennings, MTC is a preeminent not-for-profit theatre that produces seasons of new plays and musicals at City Center and at their Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. In just over five decades, MTC’s over 600 premieres have been recognized with 30 Tony Awards, 51 Drama Desk Awards, and seven Pulitzer Prizes amongst many other accolades.
Some of MTC’s productions that premiered at City Center include Prayer for the French Republic; Cost of Living; Heisenberg; Murder Ballad; Choir Boy; Ruined; Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; A Class Act; Fuddy Meers; Collected Stories; Sylvia; After-Play; Love! Valor! Compassion!; Putting it Together; Sight Unseen; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Absent Friends; The Lisbon Traviata; Eastern Standard; Woman in Mind; Frankie and Johnny…; It’s Only a Play; and Loot.
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2025 – 2026 Season
Queens
From Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living, Sanctuary City) comes an epic drama about hunting for the American Dream, finding family, and facing the ghosts you left behind. In an illegal basement apartment in Queens, multiple generations of immigrant women fight to launch a new life. But when a young Ukrainian woman comes searching for the mother who abandoned her years ago, she forces a reckoning with the impossible choices the women made to survive. Directed by Trip Cullman (We Had A World, Choir Boy), Queens chronicles the strivers who sacrificed whole worlds for the chance at something remarkable.
The Monsters
For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she’s been doing it all from afar… until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep. Written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu (Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, The Last of the Love letters) this world premiere is a sibling love story about reunions, resentment, reconnection, and wrestling with demons.
