Lucy Thurber’s Five-Play Cycle, The Hill Town Plays, Opens Off-Broadway

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s production of The Hill Town Plays, a five-play cycle by Lucy Thurber, officially opened on September 5. The five plays — Scarcity, Ashville, Where We’re Born, Killers and Other Family, and Stay — are being produced simultaneously at five different West Village theaters: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre, Axis Theatre, and New Ohio Theatre. The plays make up this year’s Theater:Village festival, an annual theatrical event that showcases plays centered around one playwright or theme, and stages them at different West Village venues.

For more information and tickets to The Hill Town Plays, click here.

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The cast of Where We’re Born.
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Kathryn Erbe attended opening night of The Hill Town Plays.
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The cast of Killers and Other Family.
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The cast of Stay.
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Karen Allen, the director of Ashville.
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The cast of Ashville.
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The cast of Scarcity.
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The producers of The Hill Town Plays with writer Lucy Thurber (third from right).
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