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Seared is a spicy comedy by Theresa Rebeck that explores the chaotic world of culinary arts and the clashes between artistic passion and business realities. ...

Indulge your senses in this spicy comedy of culinary chaos and artistic vision that clashes with the hard realities of business. When a seasoned restaurant ...

December: a love years in the making is a world premiere romantic comedy by Marisela Treviño Orta, directed by Marcela Lorca. The story follows the ...

Follow the friendship between a creative writing professor and her former student as it blossoms into romance over two decades of exchanged letters, writings, and ...

A Christmas Carol returns to the Alley Theatre this holiday season, adapted from Charles Dickens' beloved novella. Directed by Rob Melrose and remounted by Amber ...

Rediscover the timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation as he encounters the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Be transported into Victorian England with ...

The Night Shift Before Christmas follows Margot as she navigates her Christmas Eve shift at a drive-thru while dealing with difficult customers and the haunting ...

Join Margot on her Christmas Eve shift, braving grumpy drive-thru customers until her late best friend’s ghost warns her of imminent spirits. Margot confronts her ...

The Janeiad is a world premiere by Anna Ziegler, directed by Rob Melrose, exploring themes of grief, hope, and love. The narrative intertwines the lives ...

Longing for a lost love connects Jane to Penelope. While Penelope waits for Odysseus to return from the Trojan War, Jane’s husband was lost to ...

Have you ever wondered what really happens backstage? Peek behind the curtain of a struggling acting troupe in this uproarious comedy as they battle misplaced ...

Alley Theatre presents a fresh revival of the iconic comedy Noises Off, directed by Brandon Weinbrenner. The cast features Elizabeth Bunch as Dotty Otley and ...

Noises Off is a comedic exploration of the chaos that occurs behind the scenes of a theatrical production. Set in a farcical world where actors ...

By  comfort ifeoma katchy Directed by ShaWanna Renee Rivon In an alley of row houses in Houston’s Third Ward in 1976, a once tight-knit family ...

By  Gloria Majule Directed by Eileen J. Morris Join Mshale, a tour guide, as he leads a Tanzanian-only climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. He is joined ...

By  Sharr White Directed by Rob Melrose Melinda and Jasper are recent Manhattan transplants trying to live the life; a stunning rent-free apartment helps. But ...

By  Tea Alagic Directed by Lily Wolff Told through a series of interviews, a woman explores her relationship with her mother as defined by their ...

Agatha Christie’s classic mystery unfolds in a secluded setting as ten strangers find themselves trapped on an isolated island. With each character harboring their own ...

An up-and-coming architect invites into his home the hero who saved his life… who also happens to be a total stranger! The visitor is a ...

Identities are mistaken, engagements are broken, and lovers are reunited in this world premiere adaptation of Carlo Goldonis commedia dellarte masterpiece. Set in Venice, mayhem ...

New plays in development from some of the most exciting voices in contemporary theatre. All readings and workshops are free and open to the public....

Bullfighting in Yucatn, Mexico is a world nearly exclusive to menyet for Elena Ramrez, it is her life's ambition. With the help of her best ...

The wit of Oscar Wilde meets the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this comic twist on a classic sleuthing caper, Wildes muse, actress ...

With rich Caribbean tones of his island home, Derek Walcott (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) adapts the ancient story of Odysseus, the soldier-king ...

You wouldnt look twice at Peggy Jo. She's a good daughter, always tips, plays by the rules - but when she dons a fake beard, ...

Guitars tuned. Mic checked. Get ready to rock! This darkly funny, electric new play with music tells the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor returning ...

Inspired by the original novella, Melrose captures Dickens’ witty wording and evocative style to surprise audiences with parts of the familiar story they didn’t know ...

Inspired by the original novella, Melrose captures Dickens witty wording and evocative style to surprise audiences with parts of the familiar story they didnt know ...

Meet Margot, a 30-something Tejana who works at a beloved whata-sized Texas burger joint. The Christmas Eve overnight shift is her personal tradition even if ...

From major American playwright and Alley favorite Edward Albee comes a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that tackles two of the playwrights favorite subjects: marriage and what ...

On a deserted stretch of beach, a middle-aged couple relaxes after a picnic lunch and converse idly about home, family, and their life together. She ...

Ken Ludwig, Americas preeminent comic playwright and author of recent Alley hits The Three Musketeers and Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient Express, debuts his ...

Based on the popular board game and adapted from the cult classic film,?Clue?is the comedy whodunit that will keep you guessing (and laughing) to the ...

It's a dark and stormy night, and you've been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler ...

A heartbroken man never leaves his apartment, finding his only solace in the music on the radio. Then a couple moves in next door. Eavesdropping ...

By AUGUST-Strindberg/">AUGUST Strindberg Translated and Directed by Rob Melrose JUNE 4 - JULY 4, 2021 Two archeologists marvel over a chest of gold artifacts one ...

By Henrik Ibsen Translated from the Norwegian by Paul Walsh Directed by Rob Melrose APRIL 30 - MAY 30, 2021 What does it mean to ...

By Chisa Hutchinson Directed by Christopher Windom APRIL 23 - MAY 23, 2021 A man escapes the rain by walking into a psychic's shop. She ...

By ShaWanna Renee Rivon APRIL 16 - MAY 16, 2021 Hollywood, 1954. Black comedienne Doris Jean is performing at an after-hours club and catches the ...

By Jiehae Park APRIL 9 - MAY 9, 2021 Meet Steve. And Steve. And Steve. One turns 67 today. One is dead. Two are famous. ...

By Don X. Nguyen Directed by Brandon Weinbrenner APRIL 9 - MAY 9, 2021 A caveman on a plateau. He invents fire. A cavewoman arrives. ...

By Isaac Gómez Directed by Laura Moreno APRIL 2 - MAY 2, 2021 Janie and Miguel are long-time assistant managers at a big box store ...

By Chisa Hutchinson APRIL 2 - MAY 2, 2021 A man escapes the rain by walking into a psychic's shop. She has a towel waiting. ...

Translated by Mary-Kay Gamel Directed by Rob Melrose MARCH 5 - APRIL 4, 2021 Sexual jealousy, betrayal, revenge, and murder! One of the first plays ...

By Luigi Pirandello Translated and Directed by Rob Melrose FEBRUARY 12- MARCH 14, 2021 Two strangers meet at a train station in the middle of ...

One of Strindberg's best loved short stories is now available for English-speaking audiences to enjoy. A man is moving out of his apartment and makes ...

Two rival actresses run into each other at a café on Christmas night. One seems to have everything: a husband, children, prosperity, and shopping bags ...

Quixote Nuevo is set in the fictional modern-day border town of La Plancha, Texas, where Don Quixote loses himself in stories of chivalrous escapades and ...

The annual Alley All New Festival is comprised of a variety of public and in-house programs designed to support playwrights and cater to the needs ...

Houston's seasonal favorite is described by the Houston Press as having "Spectacular London sets ... the inimitable Dickens' tale – spiced with the usual fog ...

A Christmas Carol A Ghost Story of Christmas is a family-friendly re-telling of Charles Dickens classic story, which follows Ebenezer Scrooges journey with the three ...

Becky Modes hilarious and delicious comedy, featuring over 40 characters, comes to life in the hands of one man. Meet Sam. He works the reservation ...

A modern twist on the All-American love story, Qui Nguyen’s new play Vietgone pulses with contemporary energy. It’s the classic story of boy meets girl ...

Suspicious that his wife Hermione has been unfaithful, King Leontes of Sicilia imprisons the queen, orders the death of her suspected lover, and banishes his ...

The Three Musketeers is a tale of heroism, treachery, close escapes and honor. The time is 1625 and d’Artagnan goes to Paris looking for adventure. ...

Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here anyway. One drink. And if you never want to see me again you ...

Winner of the 2016 Tony Award® for Best Play. Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s ...

Neuhaus Theatre: Eliza Clark....

Hubbard Theatre: Robert Askins; dir: Will Davis....

William Shakespeare; dir: Jonathan Moscone....

As the Great Recession of 2008 begins to decimate industries across America, the once-gleaming “Motor City” has lost its luster. At one of its still-standing ...

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Or so it is assumed. The world knows the great detective went over the falls at Reichenbach with his nemesis Professor ...

All is going well for Della. Her North Carolina bakery is legendary and she’s just been cast on her favorite television baking competition. But then, ...

Richmond favorite, Jerold Solomon, portrays Louis Armstrong, the greatest of all jazz trumpeters; Joe Glaser, his manager; and Miles Davis, a rival musician, in this ...

Suzanne Vega; music: Duncan Sheik, Suzanne Vega; dir: Jackson Gay. Neuhaus Theatre:...

Robert Schenkkan; dir: Kevin Moriarty. Hubbard Theatre:...

Lawrence Wright; dir: Bob Balaban. World Premiere...

In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman ...

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have … Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. A ...

When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again before mom's big wedding. ...

Set in 1950s Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone harbors a subconscious and jealous affection for his niece, Catherine, whom he is raising with his wife. When ...

The One with the first and last word on everything has finally arrived to set the record straight. After many millennia, and in just 90 ...

Let the Right One in is an onstage adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Swedish horror novel and film, reworked for the stage by BAFTA award ...

NSangou Njikam; dir: Niegel Smith. Neuhaus Theatre:...

Sarah Burgess. Hubbard Theatre:...

Company Artist Todd Waite reprises his role as “Crumpet the Elf” in the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as a worker in ...

Houston’s holiday favorite is back with Charles Dickens' classic tale of hope and redemption. With joyous music, breath-taking costumes, and soaring sets, you’ll be transported ...

William Shakespeare; dir: Gregory Boyd....

William Shakespeare; dir: Gregory Boyd....

After the death of his father, meek Jason finds an outlet for his anxiety at the Christian Puppet Ministry, in the devoutly religious, relatively quiet ...

After the death of his father, meek Jason finds an outlet for his anxiety at the Christian Puppet Ministry, in the devoutly religious, relatively quiet ...

Ex-show girl and mistress, Billie Dawn, gets a new lesson on life and love when her corrupt and uncouth junk czar boyfriend hires a newspaper ...

Jennifer Haley....

Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands, with classrooms for Sunday ...

George Brant; dir: Jackson Gay....

Mark Brown; dir: Mark Shanahan....

Robert Schenkkan; dir: Kevin Moriarty....

adapt: Michael Wilson from Charles Dickens; dir: James Black....

Sharr White....

One Man, Two Guvnors delighted both critics and audiences during its hugely popular debut at UK’s National Theatre and its subsequent productions in London’s West ...

The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by “Froggy” LeSueur, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a ...

book: Hershey Felder; music: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin; dir: Joel Zwick....

adapt: Emma Rice from Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy; dir: Emma Rice....

Winner of the 1947 Tony Award for Best Play. During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. ...

An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the irresistible new comedy by Christopher Durang, won both the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play and the ...

Award-winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn (House & Garden, 2002) returns to the Alley in this ingenious comic tour de force where Back to the Future meets ...

In Theresa Rebeck's new comedy, Fool, two kings get together and place a wager on their fools – a jester competition, and the funniest one ...

Neuhaus Stage: Mark St. Germain....

Freud’s Last Session centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud who invites a little-known professor C.S. Lewis (who later wrote the children's classic The Chronicles ...

A riveting new play by Pulitzer Prize nominee and creator of TV's hit drama Brothers & Sisters, Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities was named ...

Company Artist Todd Waite reprises his role as "Crumpet the Elf" in the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris' experience as a worker in ...

Houston's seasonal favorite is described by the Houston Press as having "Spectacular London sets ... the inimitable Dickens' tale – spiced with the usual fog ...

Theatrical mastermind David Ives’ sexy, provocative comedy, Venus in Fur, is an electrifying game of cat and mouse between a young actress and a demanding ...

Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman....

This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic by the team of Kaufman and Hart (The Man Who Came to Dinner, 2009) is perhaps the greatest American comedy ever ...

When Lord and Lady Angkatell host a reunion at their country estate, the hostess mischievously invites Dr. John Cristow, a notorious womanizer, and his wife ...

Nominated for a 2011 Tony Award for Best Play, Good People is a funny, tough and tender story about the insurmountable class divide. When Margie ...

In the heart of London, behind the impassive facade of a windowless house, some of Europe’s most powerful men gather to play a game. The ...

They’re already calling him “the Republican Obama,” but when Julius Weishan Lee makes a bid for Congress, he must decide how far he’ll go to ...

Tony Award-winning and Drama Desk winner, The Elephant Man, is based on the true story of the “elephant man,” so-called because of his hideous deformity. ...

Hubbard Stage: - Aaron Sorkin....

The powerfully provocative Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award winner for Best Play and 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, is the most talked-about show of the ...

The Mountaintop is a gripping re-imagining of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After delivering one ...

Company Artist Todd Waite reprises his role as "Crumpet the Elf" in the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris' experience as a worker in ...

The funniest of modern comedies, and a farce within a farce, Noises Off takes the clichés of the genre and shakes them up in a ...

"They told me it wasn't like this anymore. Why is it still like this?" bemoans Eliza, a female architect, as she slams into the firm’s ...

It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and ...

Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York’s famed ...

Chekhov created, in his 1895 play that describes the romantic entanglements of a group of actors, writers, and artists gathered on a Russian estate, one ...

The Toxic Avenger is a charming love story and laugh-out-loud musical that has it all – an unlikely hero, his beautiful girlfriend, a corrupt New ...

Company Artist Todd Waite reprises his role as "Crumpet the Elf" in the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris' experience as a worker in ...

Houston's seasonal favorite described by the Houston Press as having "Spectacular London sets ... the inimitable Dickens' tale – spiced with the usual fog and ...

Ether Dome is about love, medicine, and the relationship between two of the greatest medical innovators in Western history, Horace Wells and his student, William ...