After closing out the previous season with one of the finest shows ever to grace the MCT stage, Chicago has set the precedent for future performances to come. The upcoming season will entertain and exceed the expectations of visitors from all over the area.  From singing about "severed heads" in a scary movie spoof, to witnessing the emotions of a family in peril, reliving the most intense moments in history, then closing out the season with a trip back to the 80's.  Make your reservations today and one thing is for sure... THIS WILL BE THE BEST SEASON YET.

MCT Spotlight Event: Our Broadway Favorites Sep. 18-19 8:15pm     Come enjoy a spectacular evening of entertainment straight from the Great White Way... well sort of.  You see, the budget isn't hundreds of thousands of dollars and we don't have one of those fancy light-up marquees outside of our theatre.  Oh, and you won't have to wait in line at the TKTS booth in Times Square in order to get a ticket. Featuring some of the area's finest entertainers, this show is a fundraiser event to help the MCT adopt a new lighting system.  So come out and support your local theatre and have a great time doing it! Directed by: Kris & Sharon Barnes

Sorority Girl Slumber Party Massacre Oct. 16-17, 23-24, 30 8:15pm Oct. 25 2:15pm Oct. 31 10:00pm *Special performance after the Meadville Halloween Parade An escaped lunatic terrorizes several sorority pledges while they are spending the night in a reputedly haunted house. Sound familiar? It should. This parody manages to send up all of the familiar cliches and conventions of the 'slasher movie' genre. But this time they all sing and dance, too. Written by: Angus Kohm Directed by: Jessica J. Surdyk

Edward Albee's: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nov. 27-28, Dec. 4-5, 11-12 8:15pm  Dec. 6 2:15pm The winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play. The Broadway production was a shattering and memorable experience and proclaimed Edward Albee as a major American playwright. George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home, drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces, amidst general profanity, that she has invited a young couple—an opportunistic new professor at the college and his shatteringly naïve new bride—to stop by for a nightcap. When they arrive the charade begins. The drinks flow and suddenly inhibitions melt. It becomes clear that Martha is determined to seduce the young professor, and George couldn't care less. But underneath the edgy banter, which is crossfired between both couples, lurks an undercurrent of tragedy and despair. George and Martha's inhuman bitterness toward one another is provoked by the enormous personal sadness that they have pledged to keep to themselves: a secret that has seemingly been the foundation for their relationship. In the end, the mystery in which the distressed George and Martha have taken refuge is exposed, once and for all revealing the degrading mess they have made of their lives. ADVISORY WARNING: This play contains strong adult language and content. Written by: Edward Albee Directed by: Phil Shafer

Assassins: A Musical Jan. 29-30, Feb. 5-6, 12-13 8:15pm Feb. 7  2:15pm This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical “revusical” that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish rollercoaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and in an intense final scene inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream. ADVISORY WARNING: This play contains strong adult language and violent themes. Written by: John Weidman Music & Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim Directed by: Jessica J. Surdyk

Da March 12-13, 19-20, 26-27 8:15 March 21 2:15 Middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da". Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent Charlie is brought back from the past, while the man who is Charlie Now grapples with his own mortality and the part of him that will always be the irascible "Da". "A beguiling play about a son's need to come to terms with his father and himself ... in a class with the best of Sean O'Casey."-New York Times Written by: Hugh Leonard Directed by: Audrey Schweitzer

Dog Eat Dog May 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 8:15pm May 16 2:15pm The place is an affluent suburb in a mid-sized American city, the time, the "possible future," when the national economy has slid from recession into depression and even worse. The action of the play follows the plight of some representative families as they face conditions never before imagined: job loss, businesses collapsing, the country club besieged by squatters, and their friends and neighbors turning into hoarders, cadgers and thieves. Their attempts to survive while all is tumbling down are sometimes hilarious and sometimes genuinely moving as they turn curtains into clothes, dream up new ways to make zucchini appetizing, and fight over jobs they would have spurned in better days. But while told in broad, comic strokes, their story is also a moral tale, for while the times are out of joint, the resourcefulness and resiliency of the people remain strong—and, with this, the conviction that if the spirit is undaunted, renewal and recovery are sure to come in time. Written by: Mary Gallagher Directed by: Jenny Glover