Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater has added two plays to their upcoming season, both in 2026.

The first will be Clubbed Thumb and Page 73’s Cold War Choir Practice, which premiered with Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks program series this year. MCC is co-producing the encore run with Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, with performances to begin February 21, 2026 ahead of a March 10 opening night in their Newman Mills Theater. The limited run of Ro Reddick’s play with music will continue through March 29, with Knud Adams directing.

Described in press notes as “a fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults,” the Syracuse, New York–set work centers on a young girl whose estranged Uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays.

The company will follow that up with the New York premiere of Jonathan Spector’s Birthright, beginning in the Newman Mills Theater June 4, 2026 before opening June 24, and performing through July 12. Teddy Bergman will direct the work, about a group reuniting nearly two decades after a shared Birthright trip to Israel. The work was commissioned and premiered by Miami New Drama, and MCC’s run is being produced by special arrangement with Jenny Gersten and Sonia Friedman Productions.

“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,” say Friedman and Gersten in a joint statement. “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.”

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