For years, MCC Theater's PlayLabs were one of the city's best kept secrets: free readings of new plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in New York.  Last year, PlayLabs went public.  We brought audiences into the play development process, where they heard new work from the writers of MCC's Playwrights' Coalition, and met the playwrights, actors, and directors at our post-reading receptions. 

PlayLabs are presented at Baruch Performing Arts Center
25th St, btw Lex and Third
(south side of street)

Check back soon for info on Spring 2010 PlayLabs!

Fall 2009 PlayLabs

Mon, Oct 26
Fluid Love
written and Directed by Anton Dudley
with Isabel Keating, Polly Lee, Peter O'Connor and Armando Riesco

Mon, Nov 2
7 Ways to Mourn the Dead
by Matthew Stephen Smith
directed by Esther Neff
With Louis Cancelmi, Sasha Higgins, Marin Ireland, Chelsea O'Connor, Larry Pine, Matthew Rauch, Joan Rosenfels, and Michael Urie

Mon, Nov 9
Sleeping Rough
by Kara Manning
directed by Wendy McClellan
With Aya Cash, Margaret Colin and Michael Countryman
Unable to forgive her country for a grievous trespass, Joanna makes a desperate trip to London, graffitiing her grief all over the city and ignoring the pleas of her British ex-husband and bee-obsessed daughter to go home. In this prickly, compelling play, a shattered family tries to recover from loss and long-ago regrets...if they can even find each other to begin.

Spring 2009 PlayLabs

Mon, Apr 6
Smile
by Kathryn Walat
directed by Evan Cabnet
with Jeremy Bobb, Susie Pourfar, Joan Rosenfels, Jedadiah Schultz, Jeanine Serralles.

Mon, Apr 13
PATH
by Blair Singer
with Chris McKinney, Megan McQuillan, Miriam Shor, Michael Solomon.

Mon, Apr 20
The Further Adventures of Suzanne and Monica
by Alex Lewin
directed by Heath Cullens
with Kathryn Foster, Judith Hawking, Miriam Silverman, Jenny Seastone Stern.

Mon, Apr 27
Seven Stars
by Ann Marie Healy
directed by Carolyn Cantor
with Betsy Aidem, Jennifer Harmon, Louisa Krause, Quentin Mare, Will Rogers, Joe Urla.

Fall 2008 PlayLabs

Mon, Oct 27
Second Life
by Ashlin Halfnight
with Laura Heisler, Jamie Klassel, Tommy Schrider, Matthew Stadelman, Ryan O'Nan.

Mon, Nov 3
Zero
by Julian Sheppard
with Aya Cash, Kat Foster, Jenny Gammello, Greg Keller, Kobi Libii, Piter Marek, Michael Shannon, Bobby Steggert, Rob Yang.

Mon, Nov 10
The Jesus Year
by Brooke Berman
directed by Trip Cullman
with Lynn Cohen, Ari Graynor, Marin Ireland, Lucas Papaelias, Eddie Kaye Thomas

Mon, Nov 17
A Lifetime Burning
by Cusi Cram
directed by Evan Cabnet
with Orlagh Cassidy, Kelly McAndrew, Keira Naughton, Alejandro Rodriguez