MCC Theater’s production of The Other Place moves to Broadway! 

NEW YORK TIMES:The 2013 Tony Awards race for best actress in a play has begun. Starting in December the Emmy-winning actress Laurie Metcalf (“Roseanne”) will reprise her acclaimed performance as a drug-industry businesswoman who unravels emotionally in The Other Place, a psychological drama by Sharr White that ran off Broadway in 2011 and will be remounted on Broadway by Manhattan Theater Club, the organization confirmed on Thursday. Ms. Metcalf, who is currently drawing rave reviews in London playing Mary Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, won an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award last year for The Other Place; hers was the sort of performance that often draws Tony Awards attention but The Other Place wasn’t eligible because only Broadway productions are considered for Tonys…. (more)

MCC’s productions of Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute, and Frozen by Byrony Lavery, also transferred to Broadway. Yaay!