The Alley has a strong history of world premieres – titles like Jekyll & Hyde, Not About Nightingales, The Carpetbagger’s Children and the Obie Award-winning Describe the Night were all seen first by Alley audiences.
Alley Theatre World Premieres
- Season With Ginger by Ronald Alexander, 1950
- Joshua Beene and God by Clifford M. Sage and Hal Lewis, 1950
- The Magic Fallacy by David Westheimber and Walter Jensen, 1950
- Angelica by Ronald Alexander, 1951*
- Career by James Lee, 1956
- The Library Raid by Frank Gagliano, 1960
- Garden Spot, U.S.A. by George Garrett, 1962
- Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel, 1965^
- Ring Round the Bathtub by Jane Trahey, 1970
- The Contest by Shirley Mezvinsky Lauro, 1975
- Scream by Arthur Laurents, 1978
- To Grandmothers House We Go by Joanna N. Glass, 1980
- Paradise by Monty Philip Holamon, 1982
- Amateurs by Tom Griffin, 1984
- The Last Flapper by William Luce, 1987
- Heaven’s Hard by Jordan Budde, 1989
- Road to Nirvana by Arthur Kopit, 1990
- Act of Passion by John Tyson, 1990
- Jekyll & Hyde, music by Frank Wildhorn, book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, 1990
- The Czar of Rock & Roll, music and lyrics by Rusty Magee, book by Lewis Black , 1990
- When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen, Translation by Robert Brustein, 1991*+
- Svengali, music by Frank Wildhorn, book by Gregory Boyd, lyrics by John Bettis, Gregory Boyd, and Frank Wildhorn, 1991
- Danton’s Death by George Buchner, Translation by Robert Auletta, 1992*+
- The Kiddie Pool by Michael Wilson, 1992
- American Vaudeville by Tina Landau and Anne Bogart, 1992
- The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel, 1992
- Hamlet: A Monologue, by Robert Wilson, 1995
- Hydriotaphia or the Death of Dr. Brown by Tony Kushner, 1998
- Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams, 1998
- The Civil War, by Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd, and Jack Murphy, 1998*
- Lemonade by Eve Ensler , 1999
- Synergy by Keith Reddin, 2001
- The Carpetbagger’s Children by Horton Foote, 2001*
- Cantinflas by Herbert Sigüenza, 2003*
- Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig, 2004
- Be My Baby by Ken Ludwig, 2005
- Treasure Island by Ken Ludwig, adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, 2007
- The Gershwin’s An American in Paris by Ken Ludwig, 2008
- Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, 2009
- Wonderland, book by Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy, lyrics by Jack Murphy and music by Frank Wildhorn, 2010
- Intelligence-Slave by Kenneth Lin, 2010
- The Monster at the Door by Rajiv Joseph, 2011*
- A Weekend with Pablo Picasso by Herbert Siguenza, 2011
- Ether Dome By Elizabeth Egloff, 2011
- Fool by Theresa Rebeck, 2014
- Syncing Ink by NSangou Njikam, 2017
- Describe the Night by Rajiv Joseph, 2017*
- Lover, Beloved: An Evening with Carson McCullers by Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik, 2018
- Cleo by Lawrence Wright, 2018
- The Carpenter by Robert Askins, 2019
- High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest by Vichet Chum, 2022
- Amerikin by Chisa Hutchinson, 2022
- Born with Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, 2022
- Noir, Music by Duncan Sheik, Book by Kyle Jarrow, Lyrics by Kyle Jarrow And Duncan Sheik, 2022
*Alley Theatre Commission
+World Premiere Translation
^Pulitzer Prize Winner