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Sign In Register Cart (0) Buy Tickets A Christmas Carol, free virtual production - register for viewing link Chills and Thrills - Stories Performed by Our Resident Acting Company Shawn Hamilton's Arnett Cobb Project Donate Now Gift Passes Ticket Policy Plays 2021 Spring Digital Season A Christmas Carol, free virtual production - register for viewing link Alley@Home Alley All New National Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration Frequently Asked Questions TICKET POLICY About Us FAQ Equity Diversity Inclusion Our Venues Leadership Board Staff Artists About Us Home Page Education Education Home Page A Christmas Carol Activities for Schools and Families Explore A@H HELP onLINE El Zócalo - Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month Support Us Annual Report Support Us Home Page Donate Now Individuals Corporations & Foundations Special Events Donate Click Here to Donate Sign In Register Cart (0) Plays Subscriptions Alley All New Groups Discounts What You Should Know For Audiences Auctions calendar About Us Education Support Us Donate Buy Tickets A Christmas Carol, free virtual production - register for viewing link Chills and Thrills - Stories Performed by Our Resident Acting Company Shawn Hamilton's Arnett Cobb Project Donate Now Gift Passes Ticket Policy Explore the Productions Subscriptions Alley All New Groups Discounts What You Should Know For Audiences Auctions calendar 2021 Spring Digital Season The Digital Season reintroduces Houstonians to classics with translations by Artistic Director Rob Melrose and celebrates Alley All New Alumni and Houston writers. Digital productions available online for at least six months from launch date. Play titles and dates subject to change. New to the Alley A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens Adapted by Doris Baizley Directed by Brandon Weinbrenner FREE DIGITAL PRODUCTOIN december 4 - December 27, 2020 A highly inventive, digital adaptation of the Dickens classic, pared down to its essential elements. A resident company of actors assemble online to perform a new production of the heartwarming Christmas story. With everyone performing from home, creating a magical world of holiday make-believe is no easy feat. The socially distanced troupe brings this holiday classic to imaginative new heights. It will be A Christmas Carol like no other. The free virtual production of A Christmas Carol, presented by ConocoPhillips, is a gift to the entire Houston area. Register for FREE viewing link Short Play – New Translation of a Classic The Stronger By August Strindberg Translated and Directed by Rob Melrose January 15 – February 7, 2021 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 laden with Christmas gifts. The other sits silently at her table not speaking a word. As events unfold, it becomes clear that things aren’t what they seem, and it is perhaps the silent one who has everything…has stolen everything. Alley Resident Acting Company members Elizabeth Bunch and Melissa Pritchett duel it out to determine which of them is The Stronger . More Information Short Play – New Translation of a Classic A Half-Sheet of Paper By August Strindberg Translated and Directed by Rob Melrose January 22 – February 14, 2021 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 one last check through the empty spaces to make sure nothing has been forgotten. By the telephone, he finds a small sheet of paper full of notes and scribblings that calls forth a flood of memories of the highs and lows of his two years living there. Perhaps no short story better encapsulates Tennyson’s maxim “’Tis better to have loved and lost / than never loved at all.” Alley Resident Acting Company Member Chris Hutchison beautifully guides us through this poignant experience. More Information Short Play – New Translation of a Classic The Man With The Flower In His Mouth 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 the night. At first, their concerns seem the petty worries of the everyday, but as the two men get to know each other better, the subject turns to life, death, and the meaning of existence. It is the play that inspired Edward Albee’s masterpiece The Zoo Story . Luigi Pirandello won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 and is considered to be one of the most innovative dramatists who ever lived. More Information Full length classic Medea By Euripides 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 ever written remains one of the most gripping. Medea has sacrificed everything for her marriage to Jason. Now he has his eye on a younger potential bride. Watch as Medea makes him pay dearly for his infidelity. More Information Short Play – Alley All New Alumni El Chucho Town Forever 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 in El Paso right by the Zaragoza Bridge to Juárez, Mexico. The memorial service is tonight. It didn’t happen at their store, but it could have. Should they go? Will they go? Written by Texas playwright Isaac Gómez (commissioned author of the upcoming What-a-Christmas! at the Alley). More Information Short Play – Alley All New Alumni Choosing Love 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. He accepts a reading. It may, or may not, change his life. A short play by the author of Amerikin (Alley All New Festival 2019 and on track for production in a future season). More Information Short Play – Alley All New Alumni Man. Kind By Don X. Nguyen Directed by Brandon Weinbrenner April 9 – May 9, 2021 A cave man on a plateau. He invents fire. A cavewoman arrives. She invented fire yesterday. She wants his help. But he knows bad things happen when people start to band together. This short play reunites playwright Don X. Nguyen and director Brandon Weinbrenner following the reading of The Supreme Leader (Alley All New Festival 2019). More Information Short Play – Alley All New Alumni For Steve Wozniak on His 67th Birthday By Jiehae Park April 9 – May 9, 2021 Meet Steve. And Steve. And Steve. One turns 67 today. One is dead. Two are famous. A play for three women from the singular mind of Jiehae Park, author of The Aves (Alley All New Festival 2020). More Information Full Length Play – Alley All New Reading Old Black and White Hollywood 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 eye of producer Samuel Stahr. His T.V. show featuring a former radio star is floundering; Doris Jean may be just what The Eva Rose Show needs. Doris refuses to play a maid and is cast as one anyway. But the two women connect and make a delightful comedy duo. Still, how high can a talented Black woman rise in old black and white Hollywood? A new play by Houston author and former LA actor ShaWanna Renee Rivon. More Information Full Length classic An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Translated from the Norwegian by Paul Walsh Directed by Rob Melrose April 30 – May 30, 2021 What does it mean to be a Public Enemy? Dr. Stockman wants to keep his community safe by shutting down the town’s economy while making the necessary changes in the poisoned water supply to make sure it is safe. His brother, the mayor, fights with all his might to keep the economy open despite the health risks. According to him, the time and money to make the water supply safe would ruin the economy and bankrupt the town. Does this sound familiar? Join us for Ibsen’s particularly timely classic. More Information Short Play – New Translation of a Classic Pa...