Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's 2013-14 season will include new plays by Off Broadway veterans like 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, is on Oct. 16. It is directed by Clinton Turner Davis. Mr. Fuller won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in drama for “A Soldier's Play.â€
“Ode to Joy,†written and directed by Mr. Lucas (“The Dying Gaulâ€), “tells the story 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, and performances begin 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 by Lucy Thurber, some previously produced in New York, which will be presented at five West Village theaters from Aug. 14 to 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.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: June 21, 2013
An earlier version of this post misstated the name of the director of "One Night...." He is Clinton Turner Davis, not Clinton Davis Turner.
