Hampton Theatre Co. Announces 2013-14 Season: GOD OF CARNAGE, OTHER DESERT CITIES & More!

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will once again bring life to the "off" season in the Hamptons beginning in October. The company will present four plays between October and next June which the company describes as plays "chosen for the excellence of their writing, their thrilling theatricality, and their ability to entertain, engage and resonate with theater audiences."

The season opens at the Quogue Community Hall on October 24 with Other Desert Cities, Jon Robin Baitz's award-winning play that the NY Times called "The most richly enjoyable new play for grown-ups that New York has known in many seasons," about the imminent publishing of a family memoir that threatens to tear the family apart. Other Desert Cities will be directed by HTC Executive Director Sarah Hunnewell and feature Morgan Vaughan, HTC Artistic Director Diana Marbury, Vay David and New York actors Craig Braun and Ian Bell.

In January the company will present Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning translation of Gérald Sibleyras's comedy Heroes, which tells the funny and poignant story of three WWI veterans reminiscing about their past and fantasizing about their ultimate escape from a veterans home.

In March, HTC will present a revival of one of the funniest and most successful plays in the company's history, Larry Shue's The Foreigner, in which a shy and awkward visitor from a foreign land is brought by a friend to the wilds of rural Georgia with hilarious consequences.

Finally, in June, the season concludes with Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, the long-running Broadway hit and Olivier Award-winning volatile comedy that reveals how quickly and disastrously the thin veneer of civility can be stripped away when two sets of parents attempt to discuss a confrontation between their sons.

Season subscriptions and tickets for individual shows are available now. Again this season, the company will also be offering special dinner theater events in collaboration with local libraries and restaurants as well as group discounts. More information, tickets and subscriptions are available on the company's website, www.hamptontheatre.org.

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