Birthright tickets

See this expansive and moving play about faith, friendship, and what it means to belong. Written by Tony Award winner Jonathan Spector (Eureka Day) and directed by Teddy Bergman (KPOP), Birthright plays for a limited run only at MCC in Midtown.

In Birthright off Broadway, six young friends navigate decades of friendship following their trip to Israel. As the world changes around them, the friends ask what it means to share a faith, a friendship, and a place in a culture that may or may no longer represent their values and beliefs.

The play is highly topical, as was Spector's last hit, Eureka Day, about vaccination requirements in a Bay Area school. The theater, and its co-producers Jenny Gersten and Sonia Friedman Productions, are very excited about this new work.

“The moment we started reading Birthright, we couldn’t put it down. For us, theater is all about collaboration and creating conversations — not just on stage, but in the lobby before the show, as it unfolds, and long after you’ve gone home. We’re thrilled to be working with Jonathan and Teddy, and we know our audiences will share in that excitement,” says Bernie Telsey, MCC’s Co-Artistic Director.

Sonia Friedman and Jenny Gersten also shared their enthusiasm in a joint statement: “Birthright is ambitious, intimate, and deeply personal — a play that courageously grapples with identity, responsibility, and belief in ways that are provocative, piercing, and deeply illuminating," they said. "Jonathan and Teddy have created something sensitive and powerful, and MCC is the ideal home for its New York debut. MCC has always championed bold new writing that provokes conversation and builds community, and we’re proud to support them in premiering this urgent and resonant work."