Blake West News

MCC THEATER today announced programming for the MCC Theater Youth Company's fourth annual FreshPlay Festival.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) today announced that Elizabeth Marvel will star in the World Premiere Production of Michael Weller's new play Fifty Words, which will begin performances at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC) on September 10 and continue through October 25, with an opening night set for Sunday, September 28 at 6:30 p.m. Fifty Words marks Ms. Marvel's first appearance on the New York stage following her critically acclaimed turn in Manhattan Theatre Club's 2008 revival of Top Girls.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) announced that Logan Marshall-Green and Piper Perabo (current star of MCC's production of reasons to be pretty) will join the cast of tonight's special reading of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street).

MCC's special reading of 'Fat Pig.'

MCC THEATER today announced that Tony Award-nominee Bobby Cannavale will join the cast of the special one-night-only-reading of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig this Monday, June 9, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

MCC THEATER today announced that Tony Award-nominee Bobby Cannavale will join the cast of the special one-night-only-reading of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig this Monday, June 9, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) today announced that it will host two one-night-only readings of plays by Neil LaBute exploring America's obsession with physical beauty.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) is committed to the cultivation of new voices and to the creation of innovative work through its programs for emerging artists.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced that tickets for the general public are now on sale for the World Premiere of Neil LaBute's bristling new comic drama reasons to be pretty. Terry Kinney directs.

MCC Theatre will not produce The Black Suits, a musical that was originally to have been the third and final show of the company's 22nd Off Broadway season.

The MCC Theater Youth Company 's 6th annual Uncensored, the Company's Acting Lab's annual spring perfomance, will take place at Baruch Performing Arts Center's Rose Nagelberg Theatre, 55 Lexington Ave.

MCC Theater has announced that Blake West has been named the company's new Executive Director, effective immediately. West, who was previously the Director of Development at MCC, succeeds John Schultz, who left in October.

MCC Theater has announced an all-star line-up for the theater's annual Gala, to be held Monday, March 12, 2007 at The Hammerstein Ballroom