Woolly Mammoth won’t be the only D.C. theater with a foulmouthed title next season. The Motherfucker With the Hat, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2011 play about addiction and recovery, is the biggest attraction in the 2012-2013 lineup announced today by The Studio Theatre.

The original production of Guirgis show opened last April on Broadway and marked the Broadway debut of Chris Rock as Ralph D., the Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor of Jackie, a recovering addict who obsesses over a hat that does not belong to him, but rather the eponymous, well, you get the idea. Complicated as it was to review in a family newspaper given the title, The New York Times’ Ben Brantley wrote that “the unmentionable noun in this play’s title carries exactly the weight of bewilderment, anger and awe with which all the characters regard one another.”

Studio’s new season opens, however, with Invisible Man, an adaptation of the 1952 novel by Ralph Ellison, which the author was long reluctant to see translated into other media. A production of Invisible Man ran for 10 weeks in Chicago earlier this year, but it will be retooled for its season-opening run at Studio, artistic director David Muse told the Post.

Later in the season, Muse will direct Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, his first time helming one of the playwright’s works. And Studio’s upcoming season also includes The Aliens by Annie Baker, who will also enjoy another of her shows, Body Awareness, run at Theater J in August.

The final entry for the upcoming season on Studio’s main stage, has not yet been announced other than that it is a “new American play” starring Tana Hicken, who played in Studio’s productions of The History Boys and Road to Mecca.

But it’s The Motherfucker With the Hat that’s the big draw here. It was a celebrity-driven hit on Broadway and while Studio’s adaptation will obviously have a different cast, the cache is irrefutable. And with it, the Zinoplex joins Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in producing a show whose title features the most flexible word in the English language. (Woolly is staging Stupid Fucking Bird, an updated reading of Chekhov’s The Seagull.) If any local theater company wants to pencil in a performance of Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking, it could make for a very potty-mouthed trend story.

Full descriptions of The Studio Theatre’s 2012-2013 season, including the Lab and Studio 2nd Stage below:

Invisible Man
adapted for the stage by Oren Jacoby, based on the novel by Ralph Ellison

A blistering adaptation of Ellison’s 1952 masterpiece. The play follows an anonymous black man as he journeys from the Deep South to a basement in the borderlands of Harlem, from a betrayal at his ivy-covered Negro college to a nightmare job in a paint factory in New York City to the story’s violent climax at a Harlem race riot. Ellison’s hero moves through an America divided by race and class, and grapples with the paradoxes of identity that have rendered him invisible. This savage, hypnotic, and impassioned adaptation of Invisible Man explores bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators.

The Aliens
by Annie Baker

The dingy back alley of a sleepy Vermont coffeehouse is home to trash bins, weathered patio furniture, and two slackers. KJ and Jasper fill their languid days with Bukowski references, low-key jam sessions, and ’shroom-spiked tea. When smart but awkward teen Evan, a new employee, attempts to evict them from their makeshift perch, KJ and Jasper recruit him as their unlikely protégée over a summer of small triumphs and quiet, unforeseen devastations. From the critically acclaimed writer of Circle Mirror Transformation, this artful and indelible drama is a subtle ode to the truth and compassion hidden in unexpected people and places.

The Motherfucker With the Hat
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Jackie, out on parole and newly sober, is determined to start anew with his childhood sweetheart Veronica, but her unrelenting coke addiction, his slick-talking AA sponsor, and the discovery of another man’s hat in his living room all threaten to derail Jackie’s tenuous progress. With profane passion and genuine vulnerability, Jackie and Veronica untangle their decades of co-dependence as they wrestle with the painful limitations of trust, desire, and rehabilitation. A smash hit on Broadway, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ rapid-fire black comedy is an intoxicating and cheerfully vulgar look at the complicated recovery from love and other addictions.

The Real Thing
by Tom Stoppard

Henry is a celebrated playwright, his wife is an actress, and his latest play is a Coward-esque take on relationships and adultery. But as the intricate web of off-stage infidelities unfolds, relationships prove much more demanding than a droll retort. A distinguished play about the complexities of commitment, the power of great writing, and the mysterious ways of love from one of the world’s most celebrated playwrights.

A new American play, to be announced
Starring Tana Hicken (Road to Mecca, The History Boys)

Lab Series

Dirt
by Bryony Lavery
World Premiere

Harriet is about to die. Ellie is her waitress. Matt will eventually sleep with them both. Mesmerizing, stylish, and unnervingly funny, this world premiere from the author of Frozen explores the politics of dirt and the ways that modern life is suffocating us emotionally and physically.

Studio 2nd Stage

Pas de Deux
Two One-Acts about Coupling
From New Zealand and Canada

2-2 Tango
by Daniel MacIvor
Witty and kinetic, this sweet and stylish play explores the universal obstacle course of love, from pickup to hookup to boredom, breakup, or bliss. A revival of one of 2ndStage’s first hits from one of Canada’s most well-known and innovative playwrights.

Skin Tight
by Gary Henderson
A husband and wife relive the torrid fervor of their marriage in this physically intense, erotically charged pas de deux from one of New Zealand’s premier playwrights.

Contractions
by Mike Bartlett
US Premiere

Emma’s manager is concerned that she is in breach of contract. In a series of cordial but increasingly tense conversations, the two dissect the differences between “sexual” and “romantic,” negotiate the length of Emma’s interoffice relationship, and face the consequences of shrinking privacy and binding contracts. An ink-black satire from one of Britain’s most acclaimed and provocative writers.

Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show
40th Anniversary Production

Celebrate Studio 2ndStage’s 25th anniversary with this original horror comedy musical!
Two naïve lovers, Brad and Janet, seek shelter from a thunderstorm in an old castle and find themselves thrust into the laboratory of pansexual, cross-dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank ‘N’ Furter and his cadre of madcap minions. Stripped of their inhibitions—and their clothes—Brad and Janet embark on a wild, unforgettable odyssey of carnal pleasures and self-discovery. Reality, fiction, and camp collide in this mashup of comics, rock and roll, and late-night horror flicks.