Immediately after the Broadway opening of his Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, named a Pulitzer Prize finalist last year, Alley Company Artist Rajiv Joseph returns to the Alley with the world premiere of his latest play, The Monster at the Door. This world premiere, like the premiere of Gruesome Playground Injuries in October 2009, is being produced as part of the Alley Theatre’s New Play Initiative, which facilitates the creative collaboration between playwrights, directors, actors, designers and dramaturgs during all stages of a new play’s development. In The Monster at the Door, the commissioning of a colossal art work for display in the lobby of a global corporation launches a surreal journey that explores the mythic power of attraction, seduction and transformation, and the events surrounding a mysterious woman whose healing touch leaves destruction and chaos.   
Profanity, violence, adult situations. Recommended for mature audiences.

Listen to Rajiv Joseph discuss The Monster at the Door on KUHF’s The Front Row

Read the Houston Press Blog, Mark Bly on a Healing Monster With a Grotesque Killer Arm

Read "Playwright Rajiv Joseph creates a Monster with latest work"
Houston Chronicle, April 29, 2011

Read the Houston Press Blog, Playwright Rajiv Joseph Returns With The Monster at the Door 

Read the Houston Magazine article on playwright Rajiv Joseph, "Somebody's Knocking"