Description
The 2018-2019 season will begin with a Summer Chills Agatha Christie favorite, The Mousetrap. We then open Skeleton Crew in the Neuhaus Theatre by Dominique Morisseau. Set at the start of the 2008 Great Recession, this play follows a crew of one of the last Detroit auto stamping plants as they are confronted with life-altering choices. Opening on our Hubbard Theatre stage is a Shakespeare comedy classic, Twelfth Night. With quick wit and gender-bending hijinks, this production aims to highlight the talents of our Resident Acting Company. The traditional A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story of Christmas returns to delight Houston audiences during the holiday season. Fresh from our Alley All New series, Robert Askin’s The Carpenter makes its world premiere on the Alley stage. This serio-comedy features family secrets, accidental partner swaps, and lots of laughs. Quack by Eliza Clark makes its regional debut on the Neuhaus stage after also having success at last year’s Alley All New Festival. The Tony Award-winning family drama The Humans by Stephen Karam plays next on the Hubbard Theatre. After that, renowned director Theresa Rebeck returns to the Alley to direct Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley. Finishing out our series in the Neuhaus, we have Nick Payne’s Constelations about one couple, infinite possibilities, and the place where science and romance collide. We close out our season with Ken Ludwig’s action-packed swashbuckling adventure, The Three Musketeers.
Population Served
Adults / /
Program Long-Term Success
Seek out and explore the universal stories and myths found in contmporary and classical drama that have an urgency and immediacy for our lives.
Create and maintain the finest company of resident actors, direcors, designers, dramaturgs, and authors.
Develop and prepare young artists thus ensuring the future of the American Theatre.
Program Short-Term Success
The 2018-2019 season will highlight the talents of our Resident Acting Company. It will allow the Alley to continue to contribute to the American Theatre cannon, as well as give Houston audiences a variety of entertaining and world-class theatre to enjoy.
Description
The Alley’s Education
and Community Engagement programs encourage creative expression and
participation in the theatre arts, promote math and science learning, improve
critical literacy skills, foster personal growth, and celebrate Houston’s
heritage and cultural diversity. Last season, the Alley Theatre provided a
record 497,406 educational contact hours to students, educators, patrons, and
community members. Our touring shows and educational programs served 79,403 students and 3,660 teachers from 25 independent school
districts throughout Greater Houston. ECE trained stellar teaching artists, met
challenging curriculum objectives, and designed appropriate program
assessments. It’s been an extraordinary period of exemplary education, strong
partnerships, and ultimately an outstanding non-profit that meets community
needs on multiple levels. In September, we returned to our newly renovated
theatre full of new opportunities for our audiences and community. ECE
continues to prepare even more educational, life-changing arts experiences.
Population Served
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years) / /
Program Long-Term Success
To provide high quality, school-based theatre programs that enhance the communication, critical thinking and performing art standards set by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
To expose audiences to professional theatre of the highest caliber in a contextual format that complements the work of the Alley Theatre.
To deliver outstanding community-based theatre programs that illuminate the creativity and collaboration inherent in producing plays.
Program Short-Term Success
The Alley’s Education and Community Engagement programs encourage creative expression and participation in the theatre arts, promote math and science learning, improve critical literacy skills, foster personal growth and celebrate Houston’s heritage and cultural diversity.
Description
In 2016, the Alley
Theatre proudly launched Alley All New,
a major new works initiative designed to expand the Alley’s commitment to the
playwright and to produce more world premieres. Alley All New is comprised of a variety of public and in-house
programs designed to support playwrights and cater to the needs of each new
project. From the start of the festival, many of the featured plays have gone
on to full productions all around the country. At the Alley, we have produced
seven of the featured works in the festival, five of which were world
premieres. For the upcoming 2018-2019 season, we plan to produce the world
premiere of Robert Askin’s The Carpenter
as well as the regional premiere of Eliza Clark’s Quack. The initiative does not stop with the festival, however. We
plan to produce more world premieres, commission new plays, and engage and
support playwrights year round. The Alley
All New Festival for the upcoming season will be held January 17-27, 2019.
Population Served
General/Unspecified / /
Program Long-Term Success
To advance theatre as an art form for the 21st Century by creating new work that will become the classics for the future.
To deepen and expand the audience's relationship to the theatre.
Program Short-Term Success
To offer new and emerging work to Houston audiences, and to offer unique insight into new play development.
Description
The Alley annually reaches new audiences and contributes to the cultural life of the community. The Alley also offers free and discounted tickets to those who might not know about live theatre or be able to afford to attend a performance. Public and private students pay a nominal fee to see plays as do clients of charitable organizations who participate in our AlleyWays program. For selected nights, the Alley encourages people to bring a donation of food or school supplies and attend a performance and pay what they can. Act OUT was created to provide Houston's gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender (GLBT) community with social opportunities at the Alley.
Population Served
Gays/Lesbians / Adults /
Program Long-Term Success
Create emotionally satisfied audience members through relationship marketing and personalized customer service.
Increase customer retention by providing customer service that instill customer confidence, passion and motivates them to become advocates of the Alley.
Expand audience by creating a strategic and measured acquisition program that works towards establishing a relationship with the customer targeting: (1) Potential audience members to promote first time attendance and (2) current Alley single ticket buyers and new audience members to promote more frequent future purchases.
Description
With our new
building comes new technology to help you hear all the action. The Hubbard
Theatre induction loop system turns every Telecoil-equipped hearing aid and
cochlear implant into a personalized listening device connected directly to the
theatre’s sound system. In addition, easy-to-wear headsets provide clear,
amplified sound in both the Hubbard and Neuhaus theatres, and our closed
captioning system provides a digital display screen that simultaneously
displays the lines of the play so you don’t miss a word. Both the Hubbard and
Neuhaus Theatres have wheelchair- and scooter-accessible locations where
patrons can remain in their wheelchairs or transfer to theater seats.
Designated performances allow vision impaired patrons the additional
description of set designs, costumes, and other visual elements that enhance
the theatre-going experience through headsets.
Population Served
Elderly and/or Disabled / /
Program Long-Term Success
Offer open captioning, audio description and assisted listening services in partnership with community based organizations for the elderly, sight-impaired and hearing- impaired.