Twice a year, MCC Theater presents new plays from our Playwrights’ Coalition in the PlayLabs free readings series. Each fall and spring, these readings take the development of four new plays to the public, bringing you exciting new work and giving the playwrights a chance to hear their freshest scripts in front of an audience.

Spring 2009
Mon April 6, 7pm - Smile
Mon April 13, 7pm - PATH
Mon April 20, 7pm - The Further Adventures of Suzanne and Monica
Mon April 27, 7pm - Seven Stars

Admission is free
Please RSVP:
(212) 727-7722 x244
literary@mcctheater.org

Baruch Performing Arts
25th St, btw Lex & Third
(south side of street)

PlayLabs feature brand new work by some of the most exciting writers working today.  Each has his or her own unique, exciting voice that we can’t wait to share with you. Hear their work read by New York's best actors - past readings have featured Michael Shannon (Oscar nominee for Revolutionary Road, Bug), Marin Ireland (reasons to be pretty on Broadway, Blasted), Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie), and many more.

MCC Theater PlayLabs bring new plays to you. But they also bring you to new plays.  Join us after every reading for a reception, a chance to chat with the artists and meet other new play enthusiasts.

To be added to the PlayLabs mailing list or for more information, email literary@mcctheater.org.

Click here to check out past PlayLab line-ups.

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The Plays

Mon April 6, 7pm
Smile
by Kathryn Walat
Temporarily homeless from an apartment fire, Cassie's crashing on a friend's couch with nothing but a puffy coat, her favorite sweater, and a stalled dissertation on cheerful martyr Saint Perpetua. Our urban heroine struggles to find her way, all while valiantly trying to make a living, be a good friend, endure her mother, right a faltering love life, and care for her distraught pet turtle. A charming and wry look at how we build our lives and find ourselves in the city.

Mon April 13, 7pm
PATH
by Blair Singer
Meg’s three-year relationship is stale and stalled, and her puff-piece reporting for local news isn’t quite rewarding… but the prospect of a new friendship is always exciting! Of course, when it’s with her best friend’s new boyfriend… and he happens to be a sexy yoga teacher who works with at-risk youth… but Meg wants to be friends with a man! And especially in this age of Obama, bonus points if he’s black.

Mon April 20, 7pm
The Further Adventures of Suzanne and Monica
by Alex Lewin
Monica makes her way through the Hollywood machine, transforming from ambitious body double to mega-watt star. But fame is not easy or free, and what Monica has to give up to get it is more than you might expect. In this funny and surprising new play, Hollywood satire meets a deep exploration of how we choose our identities and the price we sometimes have to pay.

Mon April 27, 7pm
Seven Stars
by Ann Marie Healy
Margaret’s life is a familiarly mundane bustle – a daughter fretting over college essays, a son who can’t find baking soda for his papier mache volcano, a husband greeting the family by rote over breakfast. And a mother whose memory is slipping out of grasp. But in this beautiful and disturbing fantasia, the known world shifts and shatters as Margaret is thrust out of the familiar world, adrift and unmoored. Can she find her way back?