The Ernst C. Stiefel Rehearsed Readings of New Work 7 @ 7 Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce the lineup for this spring’s Ernst C. Stiefel “7@7” Reading Series. Formerly known as 6@6, the annual series is dedicated to the support and development of innovative new work. Since 1999, plays developed through these rehearsed readings have gone on to full productions at MTC, elsewhere in New York and around the country. All readings are free and take place on Mondays at 7 PM at New York City Center, Stage I at 131 West 55th Street. Seating is limited. Reservations are required. To RSVP, please call (212) 399-3000, ext. 4163 or e-mail readings@mtc-nyc.org with your name, the reading for which you would like to RSVP and the number of seats.
Monday May 3rd 7PM	RETREAT By Steven Levenson Directed by Evan Cabnet Dr. George Hartness has a revolutionary idea about how to treat the psychoses of the women in his care: talk to them. But while George practices his controversial new treatment, where is his wife? Who is she talking to? And what are they telling her? A striking play set in 1906 that examines what drives us crazy and what keeps us sane.
Monday May 10th 7PM	NOCTURAMA By Annie Baker Directed by Sam Gold Depressive 26-year-old Brooklynite Skaggs Bernstein returns home to Vermont to live with his mother and videogame-obsessed stepfather. A chance encounter with a local historical tour guide promises to end his losing streak, but is Skaggs too in love with his own misery to change? A hilarious comedy from the critically acclaimed writer and director of Circle Mirror Transformation.
Monday May 17th 7PM	PIECES OF VINCENT By David Watson Directed by Lynne Meadow In London, a young man visits his old piano teacher, and two former lovers meet over cocktails. In Northern Ireland, a Police Officer must deliver shocking news. And in Birmingham, a teenage boy wants his old friend back. An intricately woven tale of loss and connection from an exciting new British voice.
Monday May 24th 7PM	THERE ARE NO MORE BIG SECRETS By Heidi Schreck Directed by Kip Fagan There was a time when Charles loved Gabe like a brother. But that was before Gabe disappeared to start a whole new life in Moscow. Now fifteen years later, he's arrived on Charles' doorstep seeking refuge for him and his Russian journalist wife. How well does Charles know Gabe? A bold play examining the mysteries we hide from those we love the most.
Monday June 7th 7PM	STUNT GIRL Book and Lyrics by Peter Kellog Music by David Friedman Directed by Brian Yorkey Nellie Bly was a groundbreaking investigative journalist, an intrepid world traveler, and a captain of industry - all in a time before women had the right to vote. She's brought to tuneful life in a rollicking new musical about her hopes and heartbreak and fascinating times.
Monday June 14th 7PM	HOW THE WORLD BEGAN By Catherine Trieschmann Directed by Carolyn Cantor When Manhattanite Susan Pierce accepts a job teaching biology in Plainview, Kansas, she's ready for more than a little culture shock, but she's not prepared for the violent controversy that seizes the town when she makes an off-handed comment about the origins of the universe. How the World Began was commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club through the Alfred P. Sloan Initiative.
Monday June 21st 7PM	OBLIVION By Carly Mensch Directed by Evan Cabnet When their seventeen-year-old daughter mysteriously disappears for the weekend, uber-hip Brooklynite parents Pam and Dixon fear the worst. But the truth turns out to be more shocking than anything they imagined. A fresh comedy about family, basketball, Pauline Kael, and what it means to ask the big questions.

Past programming:
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999

7@7 2009:
Dreams of Violence by Stella Feehily
Night for Day by Nicholas Kazan
Magic Forest Farm by Zayd Dohrn
Recall by Eliza Clark
Close Up Space by Molly Smith Metzler
The Color of Desire written and directed by Nilo Cruz
Funked Up Fairytales, Book, Music & Lyrics by Kirsten Childs

7@7 2008:
Shoe Story by Ben Snyder
Calvin Berger Book, Music & Lyrics by Barry Wyner
Wisdom by Simon Vinncombe
Willing by Amy Herzog
The Imprisonment of the Eye by Sam Marks
Fake by Eric Simonson
Kissing the Floor by Ellen McLaughlin

6@6 2007:
Horse Latitudes by Hillary Fannin
Stunning by David Adjmi
A Sleeping Country by Melanie Marnich
The Front Music & Lyrics by Paul Gordon & Jay Gruska, Book by Seth Friedman
The Last Best Place by Bathsheba Doran
Human Voices by Sarah Treem

6@6 2006:
Men of Tortuga by Jason Wells
Strike-Slip by Naomi IIzuka
Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
The Little Flower of East Orange by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Fallout by Shelagh Stephenson
The Girl in the Frame Book, Music and Lyrics by Jeremy Desmon

6@6 2004:
The Ugly American written and performed by Mike Daisey
Red Light Winter written and directed by Adam Rapp
The Scene by Theresa Rebeck
A Likely Story written and performed by David Cale
The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! by Quiara Alegria Hudes
Dance the Holy Ghost: A Play on Memory by Marcus Gardley

6@6 2003:
Not Waving by Ellen Melaver
The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove by Regina Taylor
Dissonance by Damian Lanigan
Chrysalis words and music by Gilles Chiasson
Drug Buddy by David Folwell
Bay Windows and Shakes by Joe Hortua

6@6 2002:
40 Years in the Sunshine by Annie Weisman
Motherhouse by Victor Lodato
Coming Up Next, Music and Lyrics by Norman Noll, Book by Itamar Moses
Pro Bono Publico by Peter Morris
Jump/Cut by Neena Beber
Eyolf by John Belluso

6@6 2001:
Slag Heap by Anton Dudley
Preserve by Courtney Baron
Placement by Blair Singer
Carol Mulroney by Stephen Belber
3 1⁄2 Catholics by Julia Jordan
Joe! Book, Music and Lyrics by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer

6@6 2000:
97 Orchard Street, Music by Frederick Freyer, Book and Lyrics by Patrick Cook
Jerusalem by Seth Greenland
Crazy Jane on God by Dan O’Brien
Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger
Suicide Weather by Jeff Whitty
Illuminating Veronica by Rogelio Martinez
The Tulip Craze by Jay Reiss

6@6 1999:
Innocence is a Sin by Lucy Thurber
Intrigue With Faye by Kate Robin
Peaking by Eric Winick
A Hole in the Dark by Hilly Hicks
Proof by David Auburn
Musical of Musicals, Music by Eric Rockwell, Lyrics by Joanne Bogart