What's Eating Gilbert Grape Musical to Premiere Off-Broadway

MCC Theater announced its 40th anniversary season.

The season will include the world premiere of ANON – a tempest at our kitchen table (September 25-November 1) by Anne Washburn and directed by Anne Kauffman, the New York Premiere of The Heart Sellers (January) by  Lloyd Suh and directed by May Adrales, and the world premiere musical What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (June 2027), with a book by Peter Hedges, music and lyrics by Adrian Enscoe, Christopher Sears, Sydney Shepherd, and Regina Strayhorn, and direction by Anne Kauffman.

In ANON – a tempest at our kitchen table, a gay pride flag is unfurled across the street from Jeanie, an increasingly online TikToker in a suburb in Texas, and two seemingly different households freak out.

The Heart Sellers is about a chance encounter and quintessentially American connection that happens when Jane and Luna, two immigrant strangers, meet on Thanksgiving in 1973 and decide to spend this strange, new holiday together.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, based on the novel that was also a 1993 film, is a story of a small-town life, a family on the edge, and the dream of escape.

Casting, creative teams, and other information for each production will be announced at a later date.