MCC Theater

Screen stars Owen Teague and Abbey Lee play recovering alcoholics who stumble into a blurry, co-dependent and co-enabling love affair in this one-act two-hander, which marks the U.S. debut of the rising English playwright Joe White. Rory McGregor directs them through the protracted Days of Wine and Roses daze of their romantic drama. 

Ro Reddick's offbeat comedy with music, set in the days before a 1987 conference between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, was a standout in last year's edition of the new-play festival Summerworks. Those who missed it then—which is most people, since it ran for only two weeks!—can catch it now in a longer engagement at MCC, co-produced by Clubbed Thumb and Page 73. Alana Raquel Bowers once again plays the central character, a young Black girl in upstate New York, flanked by fellow original cast members Grace McLean, Suzzy Roche, Will Cobbs, Andy Lucien, Lizan Mitchell, Nina Ross and Ellen Winter, along with newbie Crystal Finn. The astute Knud Adams (English) directs.