July 24 – August 30, 2026
Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins
and DreamWorks film
Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel
Directed by Casey Stangl
This modern psychological thriller, adapted from the best-selling novel and hit film, follows Rachel, a woman struggling with dependency. She must piece together her fragmented memories to find a girl who’s gone missing. As her night comes back to her, she considers: who can you trust when you can’t trust yourself?
The run time is 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.
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The Double Play
A spirited twist on the classic, blending the richness of cognac with bright citrus and a warming touch of spice. Fresh lemon juice brings a crisp balance, while ginger adds a subtle heat that lingers just long enough to keep each sip interesting. Smooth, zesty, and lightly spiced, it’s both refreshing and refined.
Elizabeth Bunch
Elizabeth Bunch has appeared in over 100 productions at Alley Theatre. Favorites include Misery, Seared, Noises Off, Little Comedies, Servant of Two Masters, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, 1984, Constellations, As You Like It, Grounded, Othello, The 39 Steps, Hand to God, Pygmalion, August Osage County, Clybourne Park, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Doubt, Proof, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? NYC and Regional: Playwrights Horizons, Guthrie, Denver Center, Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, Keen Company, and The Flea. @Its_Elizabeth_Bunch
Michelle Elaine
Rose
Michelle Elaineis a Resident Acting Company Member. Michelle originated the role of Miss Scarlet in the First National Tour of Clue: A New Comedy. Favorite Alley Theatre credits: Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, Primary Trust, Noises Off, A Christmas Carol, Clue, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sense and Sensibility, Sweat, and Quack. Michelle was awarded the Houston Press Awards Best Supporting Actress for her role as the title character in Clyde’s at The Ensemble Theatre. Stages: POTUS. Check out Michelle’s web series @castmedammit on YouTube! @michelleelaineofficial
Dylan Godwin
Dylan Godwinis a Resident Acting Company Member and recently appeared in Alley Theatre’s Dear Alien, The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon Moncrieff), The Da Vinci Code (Rémy), Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d (Chief Inspector Dermot Craddock), Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Actor 2), The Glass Menagerie (Tom). National Tour: Fiddler on the Roof. Regional: Born with Teeth (Guthrie Theatre and Asolo Rep); Miller, Mississippi (Dallas Theatre Center).
Brandon Hearnsberger
Brandon Hearnsberger 27 Alley Theatre productions, including Dear Alien, The Body Snatcher, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Dial M for Murder, Cowboy Bob, The Servant of Two Masters, Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Soprano, Othello, The Farnsworth Invention, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. More at brandonhearnsberger.com.
Chris Hutchison
Chris Hutchison His time at the Alley stretches back to 2004 when he appeared opposite Elizabeth Bunch in Proof. They have shared the stage countless times since then. Some of the highlights at Alley: Constellations, Good People, Lieutenant of Inishmore, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, Orson’s Shadow, Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, Dracula, All My Sons, 1984, Medea (Video). Elsewhere they have appeared together in Big Love, Museum, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arcadia, Romeo & Juliet, and as Stanley and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Emily Neves
Emily Neves is elated to return to the Alley stage! Highlights from her years in the Resident Acting Company include: Clybourne Park, A Few Good Men, A Behanding in Spokane, Rock n’ Roll, Boeing-Boeing, and scores more! Emily is a renowned voice actor, and has played hundreds of characters in anime and video games.
David Rainey
Troy Maxson
David Rainey is in his 25th season as a Resident Acting Company Member and his 106th production for the Alley. He’s also performed on Broadway with The National Actors Theatre, and nationally with the Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Rep, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, among others. He received the Juilliard Drama Division’s highest honor, the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize, and he also owns Studio for Actors Houston.
Christopher Salazar
Christopher Salazaris a Resident Acting Company Member. Alley Theatre credits include Seared, The Importance of Being Earnest, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Noises Off, 72 Miles to Go…, and The Servant of Two Masters. Select regional credits include: three seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the world premieres of The Copper Children, The Way the Mountain Moved, and Off the Rails; 11 productions at The Old Globe. On TV: Robert Torres on Jane, The Virgin. MFA: Old Globe Theatre/ USD, BA: UNC-Chapel Hill. Love always to Amy.
Molly Wetzel
Molly Wetzel is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Speech at the University of Houston and teaches clients from around the world through her private business, “molly does dialects.” She’s a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. As an actor she has worked for theatres around Houston and the country including Utah Shakespeare Festival, Houston Shakespeare Festival, and Rec Room Arts.
Duncan Abel
Duncan Abel is a writer of plays, radio plays and short stories. He lectured in Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire from 2014 to 2015. Duncan was shortlisted for the 2010 Luke Bitmead Award for his novel The Way Home. He also wrote, with co-writer Rachel Wagstaff, a monologue for Sing London, based on the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, performed by Hugh Bonneville, recorded in 2014.
Alan Brincks
Alan Brincks Previous Alley credits: The Mirror Crack’d, Clue, Alley All New. Previous Fight Direction/ Intimacy Consulting: 4th Wall Theatre, Main Street Theater, Rec Room Arts, Classical Theatre Company, Rice University, Lamar University, and others. Alan is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, an actor, director, and an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lamar University.
Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula moved to London in 1989 and has lived there ever since. The Girl on the Train is her first thriller.
Kristen Larson
Kristen Larson has worked with the Alley since 2013. Favorite Alley credits: The Glass Menagerie; Noises Off; Little Comedies; Clue; Sense and Sensibility; Sweat; 1984; The Humans; Twelfth Night; Holmes and Watson; Lover, Beloved (world premiere); The 39 Steps; and Syncing Ink (Alley All new Festival workshop and world premiere). Locally she has worked with Stages and TUTS and out of town in Chicago and Juneau, Alaska. Krissy is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. For T.
Kaylee Sarton Mccray
Kaylee Sarton McCray returns to Alley Theatre after many other productions, a selection of which include: Dear Alien, English, The Night Shift Before Christmas, The Da Vinci Code, The Glass Menagerie, The Janeiad, Jane Eyre, and Little Comedies. Kaylee has also stage managed at other organizations in Houston such as Houston Symphony, A.D. Players Theatre, and Queensbury Theatre. BFA from Sam Houston State University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Brenda Palestina
Brenda Palestina (she/her) is a Houston based director, actor, and teaching artist with a BFA in Acting from the University of Houston. Brenda is a co-founder of Happy Hour Readings, a play reading series at Rec Room Arts that elevates emerging Houston artists and fosters community among them. Acting credits include: Stages: Panto Alicia in Wonderland (Hortensia); Teatrx: Sexo y Tortillas (Marcia), Don’t Quit (Kendall); The Garden Theatre: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Snout, Cobweb). Directing credits include: ConcertiaHTX: Cloud Tectonics; Teatrx: The Hummingbird’s Wedding; Octarine Accord: Advance Man (Assistant Director); Happy Hour Readings: Atacama, Override.
Trevor Dion Scoggin-Bowen
Trevor Dion Scoggin-Bowen (Costume Design) My Name is Florence, La Boheme, Fellow Travelers,(MN Opera); Bluebeard’s Castle,Champion (Boston Lyric Opera); A Doll’s House, Nacirema Society, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Hamlet, (Guthrie Theatre);Corduroy, Three Little Birds (Children’s Theatre Company); Shane (OSF); The Color Purple (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Ride the Cyclone (Arena Stage); Dracula (KCRep); Appropriate (Seattle Rep). 2026 Special Olympics Opening Ceremony Creative Segment. M.F.A. Costume Design West Virginia University, 2021 Playwright’s Center McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow.
Casey Stangl
Casey Stangl is an award-winning director based in Los Angeles. Recent projects include: a SJ Hodges’ Already Here premiered in Los Angeles in May 2026 and will perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August; Alabaster at the Fountain Theater, the world premiere of John Ross Bowie’s Brushstroke at the Odyssey Theater, A Few Good Men at La Mirada Theater, the world premiere of Josh Kornbluth’s Citizen Brain at Shotgun Players in Berkeley, and Bekah Brunstetter’s short playGentle Parenting for the 24 Hour Plays. In 2019 Casey was named Director of the Year by StageScene Los Angeles. Casey’s work has been seen at theaters across the country including South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Guthrie Theater, Everyman Theater, Arizona Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Denver Center, Portland Stage and Cleveland Playhouse. Casey has developed work with numerous emerging and established playwrights and directed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Humana Festival, Pacific Playwrights Festival, Playlabs, PlayPenn, In the Works-In the Woods Festival, and from 2105-22 was Associate Artistic Director for Ojai Playwrights Conference. A proud member of SDC, the national labor union for stage directors and choreographers, Casey served three terms on SDC’s Executive Board and was a voter for the Tony Awards. In addition to her work for the stage Casey does script adaptation and directs foreign language dubbing projects for Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+ and Amazon.
Rachel Wagstaff
Rachel Wagstaff wrote the book for Flowers for Mrs Harris which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Daniel Evans, after premiering at the Sheffield Crucible. The original production won the UK Theatre Award for Best Musical and the London premiere at Riverside Studios won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production. Her critically acclaimed adaptation of Birdsong opened in the West End, and will be revived for a record-breaking fifth UK tour with Original Theatre in autumn 2024. With Duncan Abel she adapted Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code which toured the UK and made its US premiere at the Ogunquit Playhouse in 2023 and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, which had a record-breaking UK tour and West End run in 2019 and is now performed across the UK and beyond. Her adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d has enjoyed two UK tours and toured India. She has multiple TV and feature film adaptations in development.
Klara Zieglerova
Klara Zieglerova At the Alley Theatre: Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Soprano and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Klara has designed extensively for theatre performances in the United States, Europe and Asia. Broadway credits: Sister Act, The Farnsworth Invention, Jersey Boys, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Awards: Lumen Award (Interior design of New World Stages in NYC), Tony Award nomination, Green Room Award Australia, Best Set Design of the Theatregoers’ Choice Award London (for Jersey Boys); Drammy Award; Carbonell Award; sets for the Best Touring Production, L.A. Ovation Award