Cold War Choir Practice

Ro Reddick's offbeat comedy with music, set in the days before a 1987 conference between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, was a standout in last year's edition of Clubbed Thumb's new-play festival Summerworks. Those who missed it then—which is most people, since it ran for only two weeks!—can catch it now in a longer engagement at MCC. Alana Raquel Bowers once again plays the central character, a young Black girl in upstate New York, flanked by fellow original cast members Grace McLean, Suzzy Roche, Will Cobbs, Andy Lucien, Lizan Mitchell, Nina Ross and Ellen Winter, along with newbie Crystal Finn. The astute Knut Adams (English) directs.