New plays by Donald Margulies and David Auburn in the Manhattan Theater Club season

The Manhattan Theater Club will feature new works by Donald Margulies, David Auburn and Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig as part of its 2014-15 season, the company said on Wednesday.

The season will open with “The Country House”, a comedy by Mr. Margulies, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning “Dinner with Friends” in 2000. The work, Mr. Margulies’ 10th play for the company, will feature Blythe Danner as Anna Patterson, the matriarch of a family creative artists who have gathered in the family’s summer home in the Berkshires, and whose interactions expose jealousies and hidden passions.

The play is a co-production with the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, where it will have its world premiere on June 3. The New York City Race premieres at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater at the Manhattan Theater Club begin September 9. The play opens on October 2. Daniel Sullivan (“Time Stands Still”, “Good People”) will direct.

Mr. Auburn, whose “Proof” won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony for Best Play in 2001, will be represented by “Lost Lake”, a work about a woman who rents a house by a lake to escape and finds herself embroiled in owner property issues. Mr. Sullivan will direct the world premiere production, which premieres October 21 and opens November 11 at the New York City Center Stage I.

“The world of extreme happiness”, Mrs. Cowhig’s work, is a co-production with the Goodman Theater in Chicago. In this dark comedy, Mrs. Cowhig explores the world of a naive but ambitious young girl who leaves rural China for a big city in the hope of forging a new identity and is forced to face the inequalities of life in the city. Modern China. The play will premiere in Chicago on September 13. The Manhattan Theater Club production premieres at the City Center on February 3 and opens on February 24.

Daniel Sullivan (“Time Stands Still”, “Good People”) will conduct both “The Country House” and “Lost Lake”. Eric Ting will direct “The World of Extreme Happiness”. The season will also include five other productions, which have yet to be announced.