MONSTER AT THE DOOR, PYGMALION Finish The Alley Theatre's '10-'11 Season

The Alley Theatre was founded over sixty years ago as Houston's theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works - to provide the inspirational and the provocative - to make our audiences think, feel, dream and be entertained. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean Gladden, the Alley is committed to moving forward to increase its reach into the community, to further its collaboration with the best theatre artists working today, and to encourage and cultivate the new voices, new work, new artists of the American theatre. The Alley Theatre is in the heart of Houston's downtown Theatre District located at 615 Texas Avenue; bordered east by Louisiana, north by Prairie, west by Smith, south by Texas. For more information call 713-220-5700.

2010-11 SeasonWorld Premiere

The Monster at the Door
By Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Daniella Topol
April 29 through May 29, 2011
Neuhaus Stage

Immediately after the Broadway opening of his Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, named a Pulitzer Prize finalist last year, Alley Company Artist Rajiv Joseph returns to the Alley with the world premiere of his latest play, The Monster at the Door. This world premiere, like the premiere of Gruesome Playground Injuries in October 2009, is being produced as part of the Alley Theatre's New Play Initiative, which facilitates the creative collaboration between playwrights, directors, actors, designers and dramaturgs during all stages of a new play's development. In The Monster at the Door, the commissioning of a colossal art work for display in the lobby of a global corporation launches a surreal journey that explores the mythic power of attraction, seduction and transformation, and the events surrounding a mysterious woman whose healing touch leaves destruction and chaos.
Profanity, violence, adult situations. Recommended for mature audiences.

Pygmalion - 5/25 - 6/12/2011

A unique masterpiece, Pygmalion is one of George Bernard Shaw's most popular plays. It is the story of phonetics professor Henry Higgins who bets that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lovely lady and pass her off in high society. Pygmalion is a modern myth and also a strikingly contemporary view of sexual politics and the science of romance. The screenplay of Pygmalion won the Academy Award in Gabriel Pascal's 1938 motion picture and inspired the well-known Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady (1956).

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