Manhattan Arts Center

The Manhattan Civic Theatre (MCT) was the oldest of the partners. Starting as a community / university play-reading club in the 1950s, the group established itself as a community theatre in 1964 and incorporated in 1972.

Since then, it has put on regular main-stage productions and several smaller, second-stage productions each year, and has conducted outreach projects. MCT operated without a permanent home until moving into the Arts Center building in 1994.