Rattlestick Season Includes World Premieres and Five-Play Cycle

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s 2013-14 season will include new plays by such Off Broadway veterans as Charles Fuller and Craig Lucas alongside works by the rising stars Samuel D. Hunter and Halley Feiffer, the theater has announced.

The world premiere of Mr. Fuller’s “One Night…,” about women in the military, begins on Oct. 16, with Clinton Davis Turner directing. Mr. Fuller won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in drama for “A Soldier’s Play.”

“Ode to Joy,” written and directed by Mr. Lucas (“The Dying Gaul”), “tells the sory of love, heartbreak, addiction, and illness” through the eyes of a painter and her two lovers, according to the Rattlestick announcement. Performances begin Feb. 12.

Kip Fagan will direct Ms. Feiffer’s “How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them,” about two troubled sisters and the “limping wallflower” they draw into their world. Performances start Oct. 23.

Coming off his New York success with “The Whale,” Mr. Hunter will premiere “The Few,” about the employees of a struggling newspaper for truckers. Davis McCallum directs, with performances beginning April 16.

The Rattlestick lineup will also include “The Correspondent,” by Ken Urban, which was postponed from this season; and “The Hill Town Plays,” five works, some previously produced in New York, by Lucy Thurber, which will be presented at five West Village theaters between Aug. 14 and Sept. 28.

The “Hill Town” cycle is the inaugural event in a Rattlestick initiative to simultaneously present five plays centered on one playwright or theme in different West Village theaters.