Manhattan Theatre Club has added premieres from Pulitzer winners Martyna Majok and David Lindsay-Abaire to its upcoming 2025-2026 season.
Up first in fall 2025 at the company's Off-Broadway space (New York City Center Stage I) will be the premiere of a newly imagined version of Martyna Majok's 2018 play Queens, to be directed by Trip Cullman. The play centers on a young Ukrainian woman who comes to an illegal basement apartment in Queens in search of her mother, and who is forced to reckon with the difficult choices multiple generations of immigrant women who live in the home have been forced to make to survive.
The play originally premiered via Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 series, but Majok has reportedly been working on a major revision that MTC will debut. 鈥�Queens means the world to me,鈥� says Majok in a statement. 鈥淚 first began writing it in 2016 and I鈥檝e been searching for it ever since, in various workshops, productions, and late nights and early mornings. I worried I鈥檇 never write another original play again until I figured out this one; so haunted was I by these women, so driven to do right by them. It鈥檚 with tears that I now write that I finally feel like I鈥檝e found their story. These characters are some of the dearest creations of my life. They鈥檙e like family. And I鈥檓 bursting with love and pride to share them with this city. I鈥檓 immensely indebted to the many generous artists and institutions that have supported and cared for this play over the years. And I鈥檓 especially grateful to MTC for encouraging me and producing this newly reimagined version of Queens. It moves me so very much that it鈥檚 finding a home in one of the theatres that first gave me one. As I read the headlines and witness this country, I hope this story can offer a place at the hearth of the impossibly complicated experience of immigrant women鈥攁n experience that, for some, costs entire lives.鈥�
Dates and casting are to be announced.
The new work from Lindsay-Abaire is The Balusters, which will play the company's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway in spring 2026 with Tony winner Kenny Leon directing. This MTC commission centers on a small-town neighborhood association experiencing some big drama鈥攏amely, the concept of installing a new stop sign on the neighborhood's most bucolic block.
"Manhattan Theatre Club has been my artistic home since I was a baby-playwright, so of course I鈥檓 thrilled to be back with The Balusters, my newest play about well-intentioned people behaving really badly,鈥� says Lindsay-Abaire. 鈥淭he only thing more exciting than having a new show on Broadway? Having it helmed by the brilliant director Kenny Leon. After 25 years of plays with MTC, I鈥檝e never looked forward to sharing a story with an audience more than I am with The Balusters."
Both Majok and Lindsay-Abaire are returning to MTC after earlier collaborations, including Cost of Living for Majok, and Rabbit Hole, Good People, Ripcord, Wonder of the World, Fuddy Meers, and Kimberly Akimbo for MTC (the latter was adapted into the 2023 Tony-winning Best Musical).
Both productions join the company's already announced offerings for the upcoming seasons, including a Broadway premiere for James Graham's U.K. favorite Punch and an Off-Broadway premiere for Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters, the latter a co-production with New Jersey's Two River Theater. More productions for the 2025-2026 season remain to be announced.
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