Lincoln Center Theater Announces New Season

Lincoln Center Theater will open its 2013-14 season this fall with the world premiere of “Domesticated,” a new play by the Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”), and a new Broadway production of “Macbeth” starring Ethan Hawke, the theater announced on Thursday. The season will also include Tony Award winner James Lapine’s adaptation of Moss Hart’s autobiography “Act One,” and a new play by Anthony Giardina about a political doyenne in Washington, D.C.

The large-cast “Domesticated” deals with politics and gender, and features Laurie Metcalf as the wife of a politician who becomes caught up in a scandal; Ms. Metcalf, an Emmy winner for the ABC series “Roseanne,” was nominated for a best actress Tony this year for “The Other Place.” The director will be Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro (“August: Osage County”), Mr. Norris’s frequent collaborator. The play will begin preview performances Off Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on Oct. 10 and open on Nov. 4.

The theater company’s new “Macbeth” will be the second at a Broadway house in 2013; a version starring Alan Cumming, performing the major roles, is now running through July 14. Mr. Hawke’s “Macbeth,” which will start Oct. 24 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and open Nov. 21, will reunite him with his “Coast of Utopia” director Jack O’Brien; Mr. Hawke was nominated for a Tony for the three-part “Utopia,” which ran at Lincoln Center Theater in 2006-07 and won a Tony for Mr. O’Brien. They also collaborated on the acclaimed “Henry IV” production there in 2003.

Mr. Lapine, a Pulitzer Prize winner for the libretto of “Sunday in the Park with George” and a Tony winner for the books for “Into the Woods,” “Falsettos” and “Passion,” will also direct his adaptation of “Act One” on the Beaumont stage starting on March 20, 2014, and opening on April 17. “Act One” is a beloved memoir in theater circles, and was a best-seller in 1959, chronicling Hart’s impoverished childhood and early career in the theater, including his first Broadway hit with George S. Kaufman, “Once in a Lifetime.”

Another play about politics, Mr. Giardina’s “The City of Conversation,” will begin performances April 10 at the Newhouse and open May 5. Tony winner Doug Hughes (“Doubt”) will direct the play, which renders 30 years of behind-the-scenes maneuvering in Washington by a plugged-in hostess.

The theater company’s LCT3 program, which aims to develop new talent, will produce three plays in 2013-14 in its 112-seat Claire Tow Theater; those shows will be announced soon.