Alley Rep Blog
Visit Grand Horizons with Alley Repertory Theater in March 2025
“My biggest fantasy is. Well… I would like… I’d like to eat dinner alone. In a restaurant.” – Nancy Grand Horizons, the Tony Award-nominated play by Bess Wohl, comes to the Visual Arts Collective this March. Alley Repertory Theater’s second show of the 2024-25 season (Hey, Old Friend) is a hilarious commentary on marriage, family, and […]
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Alley Repertory Theater ready to say hello to Merrily We Roll Along
“It’s our time, breathe it in.” – Merrily We Roll Along This December, the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim will fill the Visual Arts Collective. Kicking off its 2024-25 season, Alley Repertory Theater is proud to bring to the Treasure Valley for the first time Merrily We Roll Along. Merrily We Roll Along is about […]
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Alley Palooza – Broadway Smackdown: An Alley Repertory Theater fundraiser
“They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.” – From the song “On Broadway”. The lights will indeed be bright on September 27 at Visual Arts Collective in Garden City. This is when Alley Repertory Theater and the songs of Broadway clash with Alley Palooza – Broadway Smackdown. And yes, this will be the […]
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Boulevard of Bold Dreams closes out ‘Banned for Being Bold’ season
“Though you grow weary, you got the strength to keep going. You keep fighting, and you keep on dreaming!” – Hattie, Boulevard of Bold Dreams. On February 29, 1940, the 12th Academy Awards ceremony took place in the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel. This celebration of films from 1939 made history when Hattie McDaniel […]
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Alley Repertory Theater welcomes the musical ‘Hair’ to the VAC stage
“I believe in love, I believe in love, I believe in love.” – Sheila, Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical The 1960s were a hotspot for change in the United States. Civil rights and feminism. Assassinations of great leaders. The Vietnam War, space exploration, and the summer of love in 1967. All these were but a few […]
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Alley Repertory Theater: Meet the cast of The Normal Heart
This October at Visual Arts Collective, Alley Repertory Theater presents The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer. Exploring the early days of an epidemic, and homophobia and prejudice around infectious disease, The Normal Heart premiered at the Public Theater in 1985. Pulitzer-nominated, The Normal Heart is set in 1980s New York and explores the impact of the AIDS endemic in […]
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Alley Repertory Theater ’23-24 season announcement
Iconic, revolutionary, groundbreaking, and banned. In 2023-24, Alley Repertory Theater takes the stage with stories of being banned in the past, and plays at risk of being banned today. Banned for being in love and for contagious curiosity. Banned for courage and for being the wrong race. This season is about lovers and dreamers, activists […]
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Theater: A dive into storefront possibilities
John Wicks, performer, writer, and Alley Repertory Theater staff member, recently returned from seeing a handful of productions in Chicago. Here, John writes a little of that experience. During my trip to Chicago in February I was able to see six shows that all stood out for a multitude of reasons. The one binding factor […]
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In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play at Alley Repertory Theater
Climax, paroxysm, excitement, gratification, orgasm; also known as female hysteria. This March, Alley Repertory Theater presents In the Next Room, or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl. The play, written in 2009 (and produced before by Alley Rep, in February of 2012), is set in the waning years of the 19th century. In the play, […]
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Enter the world of “Cabaret” at Alley Repertory Theater
“Leave your troubles outside. So – life is disappointing? Forget it! In here life is beautiful.” – Emcee, Cabaret This December, Alley Repertory Theater brings to the stage Cabaret, the 12-time Tony Award winning musical. Based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, with music by John Kander, lyrics by […]
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