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SUMMERWORKS 2025'S SOLD-OUT CRITIC'S PICK COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE RETURNS FOR SIX WEEKS - TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Tickets for Ro Reddick’s COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE are on sale now! The Summerworks 2025 Critic’s Pick, directed by Knud Adams, will return for an extended run co-produced by MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73. Friends of Clubbed Thumb have access to $45 tickets throughout the run – CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS & INFO
MEET OUR NEW GROUP COHORTS!

A very warm welcome to the incoming writers and directors taking part in Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group and New Play Fellowship!

Directors Terrence I Mosley, Liz Peterson and Hanna Yurfest will work on newly commissioned plays by Max Mooney, jose sebastian alberdi and Emma Horwitz respectively – stay tuned for a Winterworks announcement.

And we’re looking forward to getting to know Alyssa Haddad-Chin, Doug Robinson, Dylan Guerra, Jan Rosenberg, Jen Diamond, Nadja Leonard-Hooper, Sarah Grace Goldman and Yulia Tsukerman in this year’s writers’ group!
THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR GALA A GREAT SUCCESS

Thanks to everyone who joined us to honor Crystal, Susannah, and Miriam, and to everyone who contributed to make it a truly special night.

We were moved by the warmth and generosity in the room on Monday October 6th — lots of hugs, laughter and a even few happy tears. These three are the real deal and we are lucky to know them; we’re excited to keep celebrating them and working with them for many years to come.

Actors are at the heart of what we do, and it’s not too late to support them with a gift to our 2025 gala! DONATE HERE
THANK YOU FOR COMING TO SUMMERWORKS 2025

Whether it was your first Summerworks or your 28th, we are so pleased you could join us. CLICK HERE for some photos and essays from this season.

We’ll be spending the summer incubating and planning for the fall, but we have lot of news to share, so watch this space!

In the meantime, we’re pleased to announce that our outgoing board chair will match donations up to a total of $25,000 to support future remounts of Summerworks shows (like this season’s Deep Blue Sound). He wants us to keep it up – and so do we! CLICK HERE TO JOIN THAT EFFORT
ANNOUNCING SUMMERWORKS 2025

Due to overwhelming demand, we’re adding performances this year – but Summerworks shows always sell out, so lock in your seats with a pass!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO & TO BUY YOUR PASS NOW
THANK YOU FOR A GREAT RUN!

Spending the last two months with Deep Blue Sound has been a joy and a balm. We are deeply proud of the work, and humbled by the talent and dedication of this company of artists.

The show played for six sold-out weeks and we added as many shows as we could – but sadly, we closed this weekend. Thank you to the over 4,000 people who came to visit our island. And thank you to all the artists, staff, funders and friends who made it possible. This was a special one.

Click here for photos, essays and a link to buy the play!
NOW PLAYING: DEEP BLUE SOUND

Our “devastatingly beautiful” production from Summerworks 2023 returns for a limited engagement, in residence at the Public Theater. Now playing! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
WINTERWORKS 2025 HAS COME TO A CLOSE

Thank you to the hundreds of people who joined as at Playwrights Downtown for the 10th annual Winterworks. We were so proud of the work these amazing artists made — and we managed to cram everyone in to share it. Congratulations especially to Directing Fellows Iris McCloughan, NJ Agwuna and Laura Dupper – read more HERE
OUR NEW ANTHOLOGY - ON SALE NOW

We’ve been eager to put out a second anthology since Funny, Strange, Provocative was published in 2007, and the last year finally provided us with the time to take on this long-awaited project. We are thrilled to announce that Unusual Stories, Unusually Told, published by Bloomsbury/Methuen, is now available!

In it you’ll find seven Clubbed Thumb plays that span 18 years of our history, as well as essays and interviews about the work, and the often atypical processes that led to their productions.

Read more about the book and get your discounted copy (and our first anthology) HERE

MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Page 73 present:

COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE

a play with music, by Ro Reddick
directed by Knud Adams

Dear Santa, for Christmas this year I want a Pound Puppy, a Speak + Spell, and a nuclear radiation detector.

In this celebrated play directed by Tony Award nominee KNUD ADAMS (ENGLISH), a young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults—underscored by the cryptic Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.

RO REDDICK’S (THROWBACK ISLAND) COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE was a New York Times Critic’s Pick during its 2025 Summerworks run co-produced by Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, with Laura Collins-Hughes saying the play is “…infused with choral music and spiked with espionage.”

with Alana Raquel Bowers, Will Cobbs, Crystal Finn, Andy Lucien, Lizan Mitchell, Suzzy Roche, Nina Ross and Ellen Winter – with more to be announced!

sets Afsoon Pajoufar
costumes Brenda Abbandandolo
lights Masha Tsimring
sound Kathy Ruvuna
music direction Ellen Winter
movement direction Baye & Asa
production stage manager Christina M. Woolard

February 21 through March 29, 2026
The Newman Mills Theater
at The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space
511 W 52nd Street, NY 10019
Run time: 90 mins, no intermission

Friends of Clubbed Thumb have access to $45 tickets throughout the run — use code CWCPCT to access this price for Preferred and Regular tickets (discount applied at checkout!)

This discount does not apply to premium seats