Manhattan Theatre Club announces MTC Virtual Stage 2021 programming

Manhattan Theatre Club have revealed its next round of virtual theater offerings, celebrating both old and new work alike.

The venue aims to provide a collective virtual theatrical experience for audiences, albeit virtually. They will exhibit three series: the Curtain Call series, the Snapshot series and The Show Goes On series.

From 1-6 February, MTC will premiere original monthly Snapshots, each approximately ten minutes in length and created exclusively for the digital format, inspired by our current moment in theatre and the world.

They include: a spell for healing and transformation Ritual (featuring Gabrielle Carrubba, Octavia Chavez-Richmond , Shirley Chen , Ari Groover and Samantha Williams), personality test and performance piece Please Welcome Our Guest (written and performed by Liza Birkenmeier), a rare and intimate look inside the mind and creative process of superstar director and choreographer Camille A. Brown and an up close and personal rollicking ride through the life of the notorious Julie D’Aubigny in Untitled Vampire Cowboys Project. 

Also in February, the MTC Curtain Call series celebrates shows from its heralded past with a selection of beloved productions, with premiere dates for this monthly series of readings being announced soon.

This series features The Past Is The Past (originally produced in the venue’s 1974-75 season), Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Three Days Of Rain from the 1997-98 season (featuring original stars Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and Bradley Whitford), Neat written and performed by Charlayne Woodard and produced at MTC in 1997 and finally Nilo Cruz’s Beauty Of The Father from 2005-06. 

MTC also continues the third wave of the Student Monologue Challenge, which offers high school students a platform to express what is on their minds and in their hearts while theaters are closed and schools are remote.

For more information about these virtual initiatives, please click here.