Works by Bill Bowers, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lucy Thurber Fill Rattlestick Season

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced its 2006-2007 season. The company will present Bill Bowers' It Goes Without Saying, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Dark Matters and Lucy Thurber's Stay.

In It Goes Without Saying, running from August 30 through October 8, Bowers shares stories from both his career and his lifelong exploration of the role silence plays in all our lives. Bowers developed the autobiographical It Goes Without Saying with Martha Banta, who directs the production.

In Dark Matters, at 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? This mounting, directed by Trip Cullman, is scheduled to run November 8 through December 17. Author Aguirre-Sacasa is best known for writing Based on a Totally True Story, which Manhattan Theatre Club produced last season.

Stay tells 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. Stay, directed by Jackson Gay, is scheduled to run March 7, 2007, through April 15, 2007.

All shows take place at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, which is located at 224 Waverly Place.