MCC Theater completes 2025-26 season

Two new plays will join the currently running fall production of Caroline, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, at the Off-Broadway theatre this winter and spring.

Summary

• MCC Theater has added Ro Reddick's Cold War Choir Practice and Jonathan Spector's Birthright to its 2025-26 Off-Broadway season
• Reddick's play follows a girl who gets caught up in Cold War-era intrigue over the holidays
• Spector's play follows the reunion between a group of Jewish friends brought together on a birthright trip to Israel

MCC Theater has named two new productions in its 2025-26 season, both of which will take place at the nonprofit institution's Manhattan venue next year.

Running from February 21 to March 29 (opening March 10) will be Cold War Choir Practice in a co-production with Clubbed Thumb and Page 73. Written by Ro Reddick and directed by Tony Award nominee Knud Adams, the play follows a young girl whose estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays, cuing intrigue involving Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults. All this action is underscored by the Syracuse, New York chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.

Next, MCC will present the New York premiere of Birthright, a new play written by Tony Award winner Jonathan Spector, in spring and summer 2026. Off-Broadway performances run from June 4 to July 12, with a June 24 opening.

Spector, who won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play with Eureka Day, teams up with director Teddy Bergman, who previously staged Birthright’s Miami world premiere earlier this year. Set against the events of October 7, 2023 and their global and generational impact, the play follows a group of old friends who first grew close on a Birthright trip, a paid-for trip to Israel for Jewish young adults. When they reunite, and over the next 20 years, they grapple with memory, history, and identity in a changing world. Birthright is produced by special arrangement with Jenny Gersten and Sonia Friedman Productions.

The cast and additional creative team members for both productions have yet to be announced.

MCC Theater’s 2025-26 season also includes its currently running fall production of Caroline, starring Chloë Grace Moretz through November 2.

Photo credit: Ro Reddick and Jonathan Spector. (Photos courtesy of production; Spector photo by Cheshire Isaacs)