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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Peter Hedges’ 1991 caller that was adapted by Lasse Hallström into a 1993 deed movie starring Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis, is being transformed erstwhile again, this clip arsenic a shape philharmonic that will person its world premiere Off Broadway adjacent year.
Off Broadway’s MCC Theater announced nan task coming arsenic portion of nan company’s 40th Anniversary 2026-27 season. Hedges will constitute nan book, pinch euphony and lyrics by Adrian Enscoe, Christopher Sears, Sydney Shepherd and Regina Strayhorn (Enscoe, Shepherd and Strayhorn are a trio known collectively arsenic Bandits connected nan Run, a Brooklyn-based indie-Americana band; actor-musician Sears is simply a longtime friend of nan group).
The philharmonic will beryllium directed by Anne Kauffman, and will debut successful June 2027 astatine MCC’s Newman Mills Theater.
“We’ve known Regina, Sydney, Adrian, and Chris done some their acting and their singular euphony (go to immoderate Bandits connected nan Run performance you can!),” said MCC’s Co-Artistic Director Will Cantler successful a statement. “Anne Kauffman is 1 of our favourite board and we’re excited that she will bring backmost her unparalleled gift for calibrating a twisty communicative arsenic she did truthful beautifully successful our productions of The Nether and Smokefall. Peter Hedges is 1 of our longest collaborators and friends, processing nan caller What’s Eating Gilbert Grape in a bid of section readings astatine MCC successful 1989. How fitting to travel afloat circle.”
The caller follows a market shop clerk surviving pinch his dysfunctional family successful nan fictional rural town of Endora, Iowa., including his obese mother, his mentally disabled younger relative and 2 sisters. MCC describes nan adjustment arsenic “a caller look astatine nan beloved communicative of a small-town life, a family connected nan edge, and nan dream of escape.” What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is produced successful relation pinch Matt Ross, Dede Harris, and Linda Rubin.
Also announced arsenic portion of MCC’s 40th day season:
- The world premiere of Anon – a tempest astatine our room table by Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, a post-electric play), besides directed by Kauffman, opening previews September 25, 2026, pinch opening nighttime connected October 13 and moving done November 1 astatine nan Newman Mills. The synopsis: “When a cheery pridefulness emblem is unfurled crossed nan thoroughfare from Jeanie, an progressively online TikToker successful a suburb successful Texas, 2 seemingly different households…freak out. How good do you cognize nan group you unrecorded among, and with, successful an America wherever nan statement betwixt imagination and reality has go progressively optional?”
- The New York premiere of The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh (The Far Country), directed by May Adrales, group for January 2027 astatine MCC’s Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater. The synopsis: “The Heart Sellers is simply a lukewarm and funny communicative of a chance brushwood and quintessentially American connection. When Jane and Luna, 2 migrant strangers, meet connected Thanksgiving successful 1973, they determine to walk this strange, caller vacation together complete an evening afloat of shared laughs, dreams, and a stiff turkey that refuses to thaw.”
Casting and imaginative teams will beryllium announced astatine a later date.
