7th Inning Stretch
Hoboken, NJ is the birthplace of baseball, and since 2003, MST has commissioned playwrights to write short works about America's favorite pastime, resulting in 54 plays finding their way onto stages across America, and many published in The Baseball Plays by Playscripts, Inc.
2013
The 11th Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featuring work by Brooke Berman (Helen Merrill Award Winner), Eric Conger (Walnut Street Theatre), Edith Freni (Steppenwolf Theatre), Jay Koepke (O'Neill National Playwrights Finalist), Neil LaBute (Broadway, Reasons to Be Pretty), Jon Marans (Pulitzer Finalist), and Mat Smart (McKnight Advancement Grant).
2012
The 10th Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featuring work by Peter Ackerman, Emmy-winning writer John Ford Noonan, Jefferson Award-winner Jeffrey Sweet, Tommy Nohilly, multi-award winning playwright Ken Weitzman, Helen Merrill Playwriting award winner Deborah Zoe Laufer, and Josh Levine.
2011
The 9th Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featured new work by Jenny Lyn Bader, Brian Dykstra, Michael Jon Garces, Alex Gherardi, Matthew Lawler, Raymond McAnally, and Candido Tirado.
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2010
The 8th Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featured new work by Constance Congdon, Andrew Dolan, Richard Dresser, Lisa Huberman, David Magee, Itamar Moses, and Chris O’Connor.
2009
The 7th Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featured new work by William Burton Henline, Rand Higbee, Robin Rice Lichtig, Jay Rehak, Donna Spector, Heather Woodbury, and Anna Ziegler.
2008
The 6th Annual
7th Inning Stretch
For the 6th Stretch we presented a selection of favorite baseball plays from years past, called The All-Star Edition.
2007
The 5th Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featured new work by Stuart Flack, Joseph Gallo, Demetra Kareman, Sunil Kuruvilla, Neil Labute, Ellen Margolis, and Dominic Taylor.
2006
The 4th Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featured new work by Karen Hartman, Jiffy Ieun, Sunil Kuruvilla, Jenny Levison, Eduardo Machado, Brett Williams, and Craig Wright.
2005
The 3rd Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featured new work by Mike Batistick, Steven Dietz, Richard Dresser, Dano Madden, Melanie Marnich, Rogelio Martinez, and Theresa Rebeck.
2004
The 2nd Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featured new work by Anthony Clarvoe, Michael John Garcés, Peter Hanrahan, Elisabeth Karlin, Warren Leight , Katt Lissard, and Saïd Saryrafiezedeh.
2003
The 1st Annual
7th Inning Stretch
Featured new work by Lee Blessing, Stephen Gnoweski, Ann Noble, Charlie Peters, Steven Sapp and Gamal Gasten, Crystal Skillman, and Craig Wright.
