Rattlestick to Feature Aguirre-Sacasa, Etc. in '06-'07

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced its 2006-07 season--the company's twelfth.  The season will feature plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and more.

It Goes Without Saying is "a 75-minute joy ride. Acclaimed actor and mime Bill Bowers shares funny, heart-breaking, and unbelievable true stories from both his career and his lifelong exploration of the role silence plays in all our lives.  Compared to the work of Claudia Shear, Lisa Kron and David Sedaris, this show is an auto-biographical tour-de-force," state press notes.  Developed with and directed by Martha Banta. Previews begin August 30.  Opening Night is Thursday, September 7.  The show runs through October 8.

For Dark Matters, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Based on a Totally True Story) teams with director Trip Cullman (The Last Sunday in June), for his latest human comedy.  "In a house at the end of a cornfield, something almost beyond belief is happening to the Cleary family.  A woman disappears, then returns talking of otherworldly beings.  Is she lying? Or are even darker forces at work, threatening to destroy a family already on the brink of falling apart?"  Previews begin November 8.  Opening Night is Thursday, November 16. The show runs through December 17.

Stay  is a "haunting and beautiful new play by Where We're Born playwright Lucy Thurber, Stay is the Story of a young writer who, in the darkest moments of her youth, discovered an angel.  Having achieved great success, she must learn to let go of this beautiful gift, all the while struggling to define and accept herself in the absence of this muse and savior. Jackson Gay (The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow) directs.  Previews begin March 7.  Opening Night is Thursday, March 15, 2007.  The show runs through April 15.

Rattlesticks Playwright is an Obie Award-winning company, which has produced over thirty-five world premieres in the past ten years.  Now in its 12th season, Rattlestick has introduced new writers and received critical acclaim for its innovative work.  Rattlestick's Advisory Board participates in The Emerging Playwrights Project, which matches a new playwright with an established artist for an experienced eye and creative support. Previous plays include Acts of Mercy: passion-play, Cagelove, the Off-Broadway GLAAD Award-nominated hit The Last Sunday in June and Craig Wright's The Pavilion, which received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Play of 2005.

Tickets are available through SmartTix (212-868-4444) or www.smarttix.com. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is located at 224 Waverly Place (off Seventh Avenue South ­ between West 11th & Perry Streets).  Visit www.rattlestick.org for more information.