New Bruce Norris Play Will Be Part of Steppenwolf Season

New plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”) and Mona Mansour (“Urge for Going”) are among the productions in the 2013-14 season at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater, the company announced on Wednesday.

The season begins in September with Zinnie Harris’s play “The Wheel,” a supernatural drama set on a 19th century Spanish farm. Directed by Tina Landau, the show will star Joan Allen, who was last seen at Steppenwolf in the 1991 production of “Earthly Possessions.” “The Wheel” had its premiere in a National Theater of Scotland production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011.

In April 2014, my Morton, recently seen on Broadway in the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” will direct Ms. Mansour’s “Way West,” a play-with-music about a mother who shares “death-defying tales of pioneer crossings with her two squabbling adult daughters as she waits for her bankruptcy to come through,” according to a news release. No casting was announced.

Next July the Steppenwolf will mount Bruce Norris’s new work “The Qualms,” about a group of people whose friendship is tested during a night of food and partner-swapping at a beachside apartment complex. The show will be directed by Pam MacKinnon, a Tony nominee for her work on the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Clybourne Park” last year.

Mr. Norris has a long history with the Steppenwolf, which mounted the premieres of several of his plays, including “The Unmentionables” and “The ! Pain and the Itch.” Mr. Norris’s calendar will be full in the run-up to “The Qualms.” He currently has two plays in London â€" “Purple Heart” and “The Low Road” â€" and his drama “Domesticated” is to open this fall in a Lincoln Center Theater production. (Laurie Metcalf, a Steppenwolf veteran, recently said she will be in the cast.)

Other shows in the Steppenwolf season include Erika Sheffer’s “Russian Transport” and Nina Raine’s “Tribes.”