MTC’s 2021-22 Season
Metro Theater Company (MTC), St. Louis’s premier professional theater for youth and families and St. Louis’s third-oldest theater company, announces its 2021-22 Season. From a Motown-meets-hip hop themed musical based on a New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning picture book to a witty, intelligent, and moving original play that reaffirms and empowers female voices in science, Metro Theater Company’s 49th season features a colorful mix of engaging productions that entertain and inspire families and youth of all ages. The 2021-22 Season kicks off with Digging Up Dessa (October 17 – November 7) and Say Something, Do Something (touring in October – December 2021) followed by Last Stop on Market Street (February 6 – 27), Bold, Brave, Curious! (touring in March – April 2022), and In My Granny’s Garden (May 15 – June 19).
All 2021-22 Season productions will be performed live for in-person audiences. All live audiences over the age of 12 will be required to provide proof of vaccination in order to attend, and masks will be required. In addition, to ensure continued digital accessibility across the St. Louis region and beyond, MTC continues online streaming of all upcoming productions, as part of PNC Arts Alive’s newly funded MTC Remote initiative. MTC is also continuing its pay-what-you-can viewing period for each mainstage production (live or streaming) so that economic barriers do not prevent families from experiencing the season’s productions. To support neurodivergent audiences and those with varying physical abilities, sensory friendly, audio described, and sign language interpreted performances will be available for each production as well. To advance community dialogue around important issues in each production, MTC is hosting panel events in connection to each production as well.
Tickets to the mainstage 2021-22 Season productions are $20-$36 and include all ticket fees. For school bookings, please contact Eleanor Marsh, MTC school bookings and audience services manager, at eleanor@metroplays.org.
Metro Theater Company has been approved as Missouri ArtSafe Certified. Policies have been updated to protect all patrons from COVID-19 exposure risks, including required mask wearing for ages 2 and over, contactless ticketing, and digital-only Playbills for the start of the season. For more information on Metro Theater Company's COVID-safe policies, please visit metroplays.org/covid.
Institutional and 2021-22 Season support for Metro Theater Company is provided by the Berges Family Foundation, Regional Arts Commission, Emerson, Crawford Taylor Foundation, Shubert Foundation, Whitaker Foundation, Missouri Arts Council, and National Endowment for the Arts.
Cast of Digging Up Dessa. Clockwise from top left: Rae Davis (Dessa), Alicia Revé Like (Esther), John Katz (Nilo), Lizi Watt (Mary Anning)
By Laura Schellhardt. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing.
By Matt de la Peña, Illustrated by Christian Robinson. Adapted by Cheryl L. West.
Jacqueline Thompson, Last Stop on Market Street Director