Tear Down This Wall: Cold War Choir Practice

1980s Spy Musical Comedy ‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Is Stylishly Mounted but Out of Tune

Ro Reddick’s comedy, set in the era of Mutually Assured Destruction, is itself completely, unashamedly, mad.

Tear Down This Wall: Cold War Choir Practice

The world of Ro Reddick’s play Cold War Choir Practice, at MCC, feels a little too tightly sealed-in but is still full of charm.

'Cold War Choir Practice' Off Broadway Review: David Lynch Lives in This Wild Reagan-Era Comedy

Without putting any dwarves on stage, Knud Adams has picked up the torch of David Lynch like no other stage director before him. With the same deadpan creepiness lurking just under the wood-panel normalcy of life in America, Adams brings Ro Reddick’s exhilarating “Cold War Choir Practice” to perverse life at MCC Theater, where it opened Tuesday after last year’s world premiere at Summerfest. What prevents “Choir Practice” from being a simple rec…

Inside Opening Night of COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE

MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Page 73 are now presenting Cold War Choir Practice, a play with music by Ro Reddick and directed by Tony Award nominee Knud Adams. The limited run will continue through Sunday, March 29, 2026 at MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater. The cast includes Alana Raquel Bowers (Chicken & Biscuits) as Meek, Will Cobbs (Is This A Room) as Smooch, Crystal Finn (Deep Blue Sound) as Virgie, Andy Lucien (Bad Kreyòl) as Clay, Gr…

Cold War Choir Practice ★★★★★

Cold War Choir Practice is opening Off-Broadway at an eerily serendipitous time. After a successful run at SummerWorks this past June, this delightfully wacky and boldly clever show — now running at MCC Theater, which shares co-producing honors with Page 73 and Clubbed Thumb — returns at a moment when the country is immersed in a war that is far from cold. And wouldn’t you know it? Russia is involved, providing intelligence to help Iran target U…