MCC names two of the three plays of their 2006 - 2007 season.

MCC Theatre 2006-07 mainstage season at the Lucille Lortel Theatre will include the 10th anniversary production of MCC�s Nixon�s Nixon and the world premiere of In a Dark, Dark House, by Neil LaBute. LaBute was recently named MCC playwright in residence.

The season will open with Russell Lees� two-character political satire, Nixon�s Nixon, directed by Jim Simpson with Gerry Bamman and Steve Mellor in the roles they originated for MCC 10 years ago.

Nixon�s Nixon opens on 4 Oct 2006, following previews from the 20 Sep and runs through to 28 Oct 2006.

The design team for Nixon�s Nixon includes: Kyle Chapulis (scenic & lighting Design), Claudia Brown (costume design) and Jill DuBoff (sound design).

Historical Fact: The night before President Richard M. Nixon announced his resignation, he summoned Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to the White House. Nixon�s Nixon imagines the conversation of a secret meeting between Nixon (Bamman) and Kissinger (Mellor) in the Lincoln Sitting Room that very night (7 Aug 1974 at 10pm).

Performed without an intermission, these two larger-than-life characters spend the evening wrestling with history as they try to manipulate each other, re-enact scenes of their political triumphs and ultimately, devise a dizzying and doomed plot to keep Nixon in office.

Of its MCC premiere in October 1995, Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times wrote, �Smoothly directed by Jim Simpson, Russell Lees� play flashes with humor; watching Nixon and Mr. Kissinger concoct a world crisis calculated to allow the President to bow out as a hero is as hilarious as it is hair-raising.� And of its later commercial transfer to the Westside Theater in March 1996, Vincent Canby of The New York Times declared �It�s both a serious work of the imagination and a fully realized political satire of the sort that American theater seldom sees.�

The final play of MCC's 2006 - 2007 season is the world premiere of Neil LaBute�s In a Dark, Dark House, a drama about a man and his complicated relationship with a complicated father.

In a Dark, Dark House opens on 7 Jun 2006, folliwng previews from 16 May and runs through to the 23 Jun 2006. Director and casting, to be announced.

MCC is currently presenting LaBute�s Some Girl(s), directed by Jo Bonney, with Fran Drescher, Eric McCormack, Judy Reyes, Brooke Smith and Maura Tierney, in a limited engagement through to 8 Jul 2006 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

The second play of MCC�s 06-07 season is still to be announced.