St. Ann's Warehouse Announces 2013-14 Season

St. Ann's Warehouse has announced programming highlights of its 2013-14 season, which will kick off in October with the American Premiere of the Donmar Warehouse's tremendously acclaimed all-female production of Julius Caesar.

The season finds St. Ann's Warehouse forging several significant new relationships, beginning with the Donmar, which, like St. Ann's, is celebrated for major, cutting-edge theatrical productions. In the Donmar'sJulius Caesar (October 3 - November 3), directed byPhyllida Lloyd, the members of an all-female cast give explosive performances in this groundbreaking production. An ensemble of actors including Harriet Walter as Brutus, Frances Barber as Caesar, Jenny Jules as Cassius and Cush Jumbo as Mark Antony, play prisoners and guards performing Shakespeare's great tragedy. In its World Premiere at the Donmar, this Julius Caesar was one of the hits of London's most recent theater season.

Daniel Kitson, who gave unforgettable, sold-out performances in the American Premieres of his (Edinburgh hit) solo "story shows," The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church (2011) and It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later (2012), returns to St. Ann's Warehouse with the World Premiere of his newest work November 26 - December 21.

Having premiered Lee Breuer's radical, internationally celebrated reimagining of Ibsen, Mabou Mines DollHouse, St. Ann's Warehouse and La MaMa will co-present the World Premiere of Breuer's La Divina Caricatura, produced by piece by piece productions, Mabou Mines and Dovetail Productions, December 6 - 22 at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre. Breuer wrote and directs the work, which is nearly 40 years in the making. La Divina Caricatura is a mixed-media pop-opera for Bunraku puppets, with live music composed by Lincoln Schleifer that ranges from Motown to Broadway and reggae to raga. Thestory concerns a dog that thinks she's a woman and fantasizes a mad love affair with her master, John, an East Village junkie. Hilton Als of The New Yorker describes the work as "Bunraku puppets meets soul music meets Breuer's imagination."

St. Ann's Warehouse welcomes back director Daniel Kramer for the American Premiere of his staging of Bartók's only opera,Bluebeard's Castle (February 28 - March 15, 2014), in a co-production with New York City Opera. As he did in his stirring production of Woyzeck, which St. Ann's premiered in 2006, Kramer offers a brutally dark vision (all too topical), full of shocking surprises. In this production, originated by English National Opera, New York City Opera's new Music Director,Jayce Ogren, will conduct the Company's orchestra, and St. Ann's Warehouse will stand in for Bluebeard's haunted castle.

The Tricycle Theatre production of Lolita Chakrabarti's heartbreaking drama Red Velvet-directed by Indhu Rubasingham, in her inaugural season as the Tricycle Theatre's Artistic Director-makes its American Premiere at St. Ann's WarehouseMarch 25 - April 20, 2014. Appearing in New York for the first time in over a decade, Adrian Lester gives an intensely moving performance as Ira Aldridge, a black American actor who was tapped to become the first black Othello at Covent Garden in 1833.The award-winning script has been imagined by Chakrabarti, based on Aldridge's life story.

Of the upcoming season, St. Ann's Artistic Director Susan Feldman said, "Each year we look at a blank canvas, and then, lo and behold, these amazing colors appear. This season is full of passion, longing and heartache, deliciously rendered by some of the world's greatest artists past and present."

St. Ann's Warehouse Memberships are currently on sale. In addition to early access to tickets, Members benefit from exclusive discounts, waived service fees, and ticket exchange privileges. Beginning at $50 and completely tax-deductible, Memberships are available now at www.stannswarehouse.org or by calling the St. Ann's Warehouse Box Office at 718.254.8779(Tuesday-Saturday, 1-7PM). Tickets will go on sale to Members in the coming weeks; Bluebeard's Castle is already available to St. Ann's Members and New York City Opera subscribers.