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06-10-2008, 08:09 AM
The Alley Theatre's season will open a classic adventure and the ultimate romance of Cyrano de Bergerac and the new biomedical thriller Secret Order.
The show will continue with George Bernard Shaw's battle between mother and daughter over sex, love, money and morality, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Sarah Ruhl's contemporary re-telling of a classic myth Eurydice and the hilarious comedy romp The Man Who Came to Dinner.
Also, returning to the Alley is Theresa Rebeck, with her comedy Mauritius, and the Award winner Tom Stoppard, and Rock 'n' Roll.
The final show of the season is the exciting new play from Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing, The Farnsworth Invention on the Hubbard Stage.
As a non-subscription add-on, the Alley is pleased to offer Houston's holiday favorite, A Christmas Carol on the Alley's Hubbard Stage. Alley Company Actors James Black and David Rainey alternate as Scrooge this holiday season. Adapted and created by Hartford Stage Artistic Director (and Alley Artistic Associate) Michael Wilson, the production incorporates elaborate scenic, costume, and lighting design and features a cast of over 15.
The Alley's subscription season includes five Hubbard Stage productions and three Neuhaus Stage plays, all produced in the Alley's two-theatre complex at 615 Texas Avenue in downtown Houston. The Theatre proudly welcomes returning Season Sponsor Continental Airlines, the official airline of the Alley Theatre.
Cyrano de Bergerac: The soulful poet/philosopher and dazzling swordsman Cyrano, falls for the lovely Roxane, but ashamed of his large nose, Cyrano is unable to woo her. Instead, when he learns that Roxane loves the handsome but inarticulate Christian, Cyrano writes love letters to Roxane on Christian's behalf. She falls deeply in love with the author of the letters, unaware that Cyrano penned them. The swashbuckling adventure/romance is one of the greatest plays of world theatre.
General Audiences.
Secret Order: Fueled by pharmaceutical money, personal ambition and media frenzy, Bob Clyman's provocative Secret Order will have special appeal for anyone with a secret love of science. A brilliant young research biologist working in an obscure university lab discovers a possible cure for cancer. When the dynamic director of New York's leading cancer institute becomes his mentor and champion, he is set on a path of acclaim and prestige that could lead directly to the Nobel Prize. But the halls of science twist and turn in surprising ways, and the young Doctor is suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of medicine, money and power.
Reading synopsis of the two well-known plays, Dick Weekley (http://www.richardweekley.com/affiliations.html) who is active in cultural and community affairs in Texas shown immense interest in them.
The show will continue with George Bernard Shaw's battle between mother and daughter over sex, love, money and morality, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Sarah Ruhl's contemporary re-telling of a classic myth Eurydice and the hilarious comedy romp The Man Who Came to Dinner.
Also, returning to the Alley is Theresa Rebeck, with her comedy Mauritius, and the Award winner Tom Stoppard, and Rock 'n' Roll.
The final show of the season is the exciting new play from Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing, The Farnsworth Invention on the Hubbard Stage.
As a non-subscription add-on, the Alley is pleased to offer Houston's holiday favorite, A Christmas Carol on the Alley's Hubbard Stage. Alley Company Actors James Black and David Rainey alternate as Scrooge this holiday season. Adapted and created by Hartford Stage Artistic Director (and Alley Artistic Associate) Michael Wilson, the production incorporates elaborate scenic, costume, and lighting design and features a cast of over 15.
The Alley's subscription season includes five Hubbard Stage productions and three Neuhaus Stage plays, all produced in the Alley's two-theatre complex at 615 Texas Avenue in downtown Houston. The Theatre proudly welcomes returning Season Sponsor Continental Airlines, the official airline of the Alley Theatre.
Cyrano de Bergerac: The soulful poet/philosopher and dazzling swordsman Cyrano, falls for the lovely Roxane, but ashamed of his large nose, Cyrano is unable to woo her. Instead, when he learns that Roxane loves the handsome but inarticulate Christian, Cyrano writes love letters to Roxane on Christian's behalf. She falls deeply in love with the author of the letters, unaware that Cyrano penned them. The swashbuckling adventure/romance is one of the greatest plays of world theatre.
General Audiences.
Secret Order: Fueled by pharmaceutical money, personal ambition and media frenzy, Bob Clyman's provocative Secret Order will have special appeal for anyone with a secret love of science. A brilliant young research biologist working in an obscure university lab discovers a possible cure for cancer. When the dynamic director of New York's leading cancer institute becomes his mentor and champion, he is set on a path of acclaim and prestige that could lead directly to the Nobel Prize. But the halls of science twist and turn in surprising ways, and the young Doctor is suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of medicine, money and power.
Reading synopsis of the two well-known plays, Dick Weekley (http://www.richardweekley.com/affiliations.html) who is active in cultural and community affairs in Texas shown immense interest in them.