ALLEY THEATRE 2010-2011 SEASON
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Volatile, Outrageous Comedy
A Behanding in Spokane
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by James Black
Neuhaus Stage |
Previews start August 27, 2010
Opens September 1, 2010
Ends September 26, 2010 |
New York Times calls the play “perfect, demented, ecstatic, sadistic and imaginative.” The Wall Street Journal promises that “You’ll spend 90 minutes laughing nonstop.“ Martin McDonagh returns to the Alley with his first play set in America, the outrageously funny A Behanding in Spokane, recently on Broadway. The mysterious, gun-toting Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for decades. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell, and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and we're set for an uproarious ride of love, hate, desperation and hope. “Wildly entertaining…truly explosive,” says The Daily News. The Wall Street Journal calls McDonagh “one of the finest playwrights in the English-speaking world.” Martin McDonagh's plays include The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Alley production, January 1999), The Pillowman (Alley production, February 2006) and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Alley production, January 2008). McDonagh won an Academy Award for Best Short Film for Six Shooter as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for In Bruges.
Profanity, violence, adult situations. Recommended for mature audiences.
Neuhaus Stage Season Sponsor: Randall H. Jamail
The Rarely Seen Original Fantasy
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
By J.M. Barrie,
in a new version by John Caird and Trevor Nunn
Directed by Gregory Boyd
Hubbard Stage |
Previews start October 1, 2010
Opens October 6, 2010
Ends October 31, 2010 |
“All children grow up, except one.” Peter’s sudden arrival into the lives of Wendy, John and Michael is the beginning of a thrilling adventure. Together they embark on a fantastical flight to the Never Land, a magical place of vivid dangers and unsettling beauty. There they meet the Lost Boys, a horde of pirates, and the wickedest villain of all time. This is J. M. Barrie’s rarely produced original fantasy – the inspiration for all other versions – and still, by far, the strangest and best.
Recommended for general audiences, children over six.
Premiere Sponsor: The Humphreys Foundation
Lead Sponsor: Enbridge Energy Company, Inc.
Supporting Sponsors: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Houston’s Holiday Favorite
A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story of Christmas
By Charles Dickens
Adapted and Originally Directed by Michael Wilson
Directed by James Black
Hubbard Stage |
Previews start November 19, 2010
Opens November 20, 2010
Ends December 27, 2010 |
This play is a subscription add-on.
Houston’s seasonal favorite that the Houston Press described as having “Spectacular London sets …the inimitable Dickens’ tale – spiced with the usual fog and an unusual twist on the ghosts past, present and future.” A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas returns this year with a re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic story, that follows Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey with the three ghostly spirits that visit him on Christmas Eve. A Christmas Carol instills a powerful message about redemption and the spirit of the holiday season, through a dazzling production created by Tony Award-winning scenic designer Tony Straiges (Alley's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), with costumes by Alejo Vietti (Alley's Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Our Town, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Mauritius), lighting by Rui Rita (Alley's Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Sherlock Holmes and the Crucifer of Blood, Eurydice, Cyrano de Bergerac), and original music by John Gromada (Alley's Our Town, Subject to Fits, Treasure Island, The Pillowman).
Recommended for general audiences.
Supporting Sponsors: Apache Corporation; Ernst & Young LLP; Latham & Watkins LLP
David Sedaris’ Irreverent Holiday Comedy
The Santaland Diaries
By David Sedaris
Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Directed by David Cromer
Neuhaus Stage |
Previews start November 21, 2010
Opens November 23, 2010
Ends December 31, 2010
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This play is a subscription add-on.
Company Actor Todd Waite will reprise his role as “Crumpet the Elf” in the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as a worker in Macy’s SantaLand display. This compact, one-character comedy has been described as "a dream rendition at the Alley Theatre, courtesy of the ideally cast Todd Waite" by the Houston Chronicle. The Santaland Diaries is an hilarious cult classic, featuring comic encounters during the height of the holiday crunch. NPR humorist and best-selling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers.
Recommended for mature audiences due to language and subject matter.
A Savage Comedy
God of Carnage
By Yasmina Reza
Directed by Wilson Milam
Hubbard Stage
Co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre |
Previews start January 7, 2011
Opens January 12, 2011
Ends January 30, 2011 |
Grown-ups behaving badly. That’s what happens when a schoolyard scuffle leads four civilized adults to congregate in an affluent New York home. But civilization quickly crumbles as verbal sticks and stones begin to fly. God of Carnage, a new savage comedy, took New York by storm winning the 2009 Tony award for Best Play and its Alley premiere promises to be equally delicious devastation. New York Times calls the play “First Class! A four way prize fight. Catnip for audiences.” New York Post describes it as “Gleefully nasty fun.”
Recommended for mature audiences due to strong language.
World Premiere
A Weekend With Pablo Picasso
By Herbert Siguenza
Neuhaus Stage |
Previews start January 28, 2011
Opens February 2, 2011
Ends February 27, 2011 |
Acclaimed actor-writer Herbert Siguenza (¡Cantinflas! and Culture Clash in AmeriCCa) returns to the Alley with a new play. Siguenza brings his virtuosic writing, acting and design skills into Picasso’s private studio, “Le Californie” on the coast of France, for an intimate and revealing weekend. Picasso’s controversial and flamboyant opinions and creations gripped the public imagination and forever changed 20th century art. Delving into the creative mind and work of one of the most inspiring artists of modern history, this play explores Picasso’s proclamations about ambition, destruction, creativity and art as an agent of social change. Recommended for mature audiences due to strong language and brief nudity.
Neuhaus Stage Season Sponsor: Randall H. Jamail
Gripping and Ferociously Funny
August: Osage County
By Tracy Letts
Directed by Shannon Cochran
Hubbard Stage |
Previews start February 18, 2011
Opens February 23, 2011
Ends March 13, 2011 |
Variety describes this play as a “very juicy…epic evening…( a) richly entertaining dysfunctional-family juggles the hilarious, the poignant and the appalling on a scale seldom seen.” Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County is a grand, gripping new play that tells the story of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their Oklahoma home when the alcoholic patriarch disappears. Forced to confront unspoken truths and astonishing secrets, the family must also contend with Violet, a pill-popping, deeply unsettled woman at the center of this storm. Los Angeles Times says it is “sensationally entertaining…a feast for actors and audiences alike.” Time Magazine named it the "#1 Show of the Year!" Don’t miss this powerful production, a tale filled with unforgettable characters and told with unflinching honesty.
Recommended for mature audiences due to strong language and adult situations.
Tale of Obsession and Vengeance
Amadeus
By Peter Shaffer
Directed by Jonathan Moscone
Hubbard Stage |
Previews start April 1, 2011
Opens April 6, 2011
Ends May 1, 2011 |
Peter Shaffer’s Tony award-winning play is a riveting tale of obsession and vengeance. Loosely based on the lives of Viennese court composer Antonio Salieri and his young rival Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amadeus follows a murder plot that shocks and fascinates. After committing his life to God in order to be blessed with the ability to create the world’s most sublime music, Salieri believes that God graced the rebellious Mozart with greater inspired creativity. Envious Salieri schemes to destroy Mozart and, in so doing, rebukes God.
Profanity, violence, adult situations. Recommended for mature audiences.
World Premiere – Psychological Thriller
The Medusa Body
By Rajiv Joseph
Neuhaus Stage |
Previews start April 29, 2011
Opens May 4, 2011
Ends May 29, 2011 |
Alley Company Artist and Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph (Gruesome Playground Injuries, World Premiere at the Alley October 2009) returns with a psychological thriller that pits the corporate world against a 21st century artist in a violent and wickedly funny play about a woman with a paintbrush and a man with a spreadsheet. World-renowned artist Maya Akhet is commissioned by a global securities firm to create a painting for the lobby of their world headquarters. She loses her head, stops taking her medication, outwits the corporation’s lawyers and begins to wreak havoc in her studio with a sawed-off shotgun. Unfortunately for her, removing the beast’s head doesn’t always kill the body.
Profanity, violence, adult situations. Recommended for mature audiences.
Neuhaus Stage Season Sponsor: Randall H. Jamail
Dazzling Romantic Comedy
Pygmalion
By George Bernard Shaw
Hubbard Stage |
Previews start May 20, 2011
Opens May 25, 2011
Ends June 12, 2011 |
A unique masterpiece, Pygmalion is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most popular plays. It is the story of phonetics professor Henry Higgins who bets that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lovely lady and pass her off in high society. Pygmalion is a modern myth and also a strikingly contemporary view of sexual politics and the science of romance. The story inspired the well-known Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady (1956).
Recommended for general audiences.
Supporting Sponsor: Baker Botts L.L.P.
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