WORLD PREMIERE
Written by NICK WHITBY
Based on the motion picture To Be Or Not To Be
Directed by CASEY NICHOLAW

Previews begin: Thursday, September 11, 2008
Opening Night: Thursday, October 2, 2008

At the Polski Theatre in 1939 Warsaw , Joseph and Maria Tura are about to open yet another smash with their theatrical troupe. As the German invasion gets underway, the theatre is closed by the censors, forcing the troupe to face desperate times. But when a handsome young bomber pilot enlists their help to catch a spy, what is a group of actors to do? This hilarious black comedy is an ingenious commentary on the World War II era and an inspired tribute to the timeless joys of the theatre. 

TO BE OR NOT TO BE is by Nick Whitby based on the 1942 motion picture To Be Or Not To Be. This will mark Whitby ’s New York playwrighting debut. The world premiere production will be helmed by three time Tony Award nominee Casey Nicholaw (The Drowsy Chaperone, Monty Python’s Spamalot).

BROADWAY PREMIERE
Written by RICHARD GREENBERG
Directed by DAVID GRINDLEY

Previews begin: Friday, January 2, 2009
Opening Night: Thursday, January 22, 2009

An exciting new look at an early, acclaimed play by the Tony Award-winning author of Take Me Out. It is the Catskill Mountains in the early 1960s, and Lily Adler and her mother Eva are spending the summer across the lake from a bustling hotel where comics entertain and buffets overflow. When a handsome young stranger enters their world, the emotionally fragile Lily finds herself falling in love. But once her imperious mother learns of their relationship, lies are exposed, alliances are forged and Lily's one chance to escape her mother's control may be lost forever.

Playwright Richard Greenberg continues his long association with MTC where his New York premieres has included The Violet Hour, Three Days of Rain and Eastern Standard .David Grindley who most recently staged Pygmalion and the Tony Award-winning production of Journey’s End will direct the production.

WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL
Book & Lyrics by JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
Music by HENRY KRIEGER
Directed by JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY

Previews begin: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Opening Night: Tuesday, October 28, 2008

From the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning aut hor of Doubt and the two-time Tony -nominated composer of Dreamgirls comes this crackpot musical romance. Connie of Woodmere has just married Fred of Newark, but her exes are back in the picture and not sure they approve of the union. Judy of Westchester is being wooed by Arthur, a dishwasher poet of no particular address, while her husband is out of town. And Lily of Soho is climbing Wally of Little Italy's fire escape with amorous erotic intent.

They are all mad and they are all sane and they are all creating ROMANTIC POETRY. Genuine emotion and the excitement of living an ideal crisscross like a night of shooting stars. When you have the Academy Award -winning author of Moonstruck writing the book and lyrics, and the two-time Grammy -winning composer of Dreamgirls collaborating, you know something delicious is coming from the kitchen.