2021-22

Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical

By Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott

Directed by Buffie Main and Jason Haskins

Glitz and glamour and song and dance join forces as three friends set out on an adventure of a lifetime. Based on the smash-hit movie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical is the heartwarming, uplifting story of three friends, Tick, Bernadette and Adam. A glamorous Sydney-based performing trio, they agree to take their show to the middle of the Australian outback. Hopping aboard an old, battered bus (nicknamed Priscilla), these friends search for love and friendship and end up finding more than they ever imagined.

The Royale
By Marco Ramirez

Directed by Buffie Main and John Wicks

Jay “The Sport” Jackson is handsome, tough, headstrong, cocky, and undeniably the best Black heavyweight boxer during the end of the first decade of the 20th century. Jay grapples with the repercussions of crossing the color barrier after procuring a fight with Bixby, a white boxer, and the heavyweight champion of the world. As he prepares for his historic fight, he endeavors to conquer the label of merely a “Black boxer” and wrestles with the stigmas of living as a Black man during a racially volatile early 20th-century social ecosystem. He confronts violent, fiscal, political, and personal limitations as the reality and weight of racial tension in America becomes more transparent.

2019-20

Bernhardt/Hamlet

By Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Buffie Main

In 1899, the legendary international stage celebrity Sarah Bernhardt ventures to tackle her most ambitious role yet: Hamlet.   Ms. Bernhardt’s decision to assume the title role of Shakespeare’s Hamlet left critics and patriarchs aghast and indignant. Laced with forbidden romance and backstage gossip, Theresa Rebeck’s new play is a behind-the-scenes look at Bernhardt’s most daring role, set against the lavish Shakespearean production that could make or break Bernhardt’s career. 

La Cage Aux Folles

Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Book by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by Buffie Main and Joe Golden
Music Director: Chad Spears

In this beloved, award-winning musical, Georges and Albin enjoy a charmed life on the French Riviera as proprietor and star of a glitzy drag club. When their son gets engaged to the daughter of a politician, the limits of love, family, and mascara are put to the test.  In the spirit of joy, love, and a lot of laughter during the holiday season, Alley Rep. continues its Christmas Extravaganza tradition of bringing audiences a show you won’t forget!

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City

By Halley Feiffer
Directed by Buffie Main

“Sparks fly when the foul-mouthed Karla meets Don after their cancer-stricken mothers are assigned to the same room in the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Together, Karla and Don must negotiate some of life’s biggest challenges and the raw exposed nerves of when the roles of parent and child are reversed.”

2018-19

• The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter (Director: Buffie Main)
• Jodi Sings Judy: An Alley Rep Christmas Extravaganza (Directors: Jason Haskins and Nick Garcia)
• Indecent by Paula Vogel (Directors: Buffie Main and Traven Rice. Live music by Fleet Street Klezmer Band)

2017-18

• Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner (Directors: Jason Haskins and Liberty Leeds Klautsch)
• Golden Girls Christmas Extravaganza (Directors: Joe Golden and Justin Ness)
• Women of a Certain Age by Richard Nelson (Director: Buffie Main)

2016-17

• The Totalitarians by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (Director: Justin Ness)
• Disenchanted! Music and lyrics by Dennis T. Giacino (Directors: Buffie Main and Weston Wells Olson. Music Director Thomas Newby).
• Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins (Director: Buffie Main)

2015-16

• Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo (Director: Buffie Main)
• Golden Girls Christmas Extravaganza (Directors: Buffie Main and Justin Ness)
• Vania and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang (Director: Justin Ness)
• Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason (Director: Buffie Main)

2013-14

• Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show book, music, and lyrics by Richard O’Brien. (Directors: Aaron M. Kiefer and Sarah Gardner. Featuring live pit band The Green Zoo)
• The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane (Directors: Aaron M. Kiefer and Jason Haskins)

2012-13

• Levi Middlebrooks: Back 2 Boyzee created and developed by Jason Haskins, Aaron M. Kiefer, and Evan Sesek
• Breadcrumbs by Jennifer Haley (Director: Buffie Main)
• Voices from the Boise Hole 2 by Jason Haskins & Evan Sesek (Director: Aaron M. Kiefer)

2011-12

• The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin (Director: Buffie Main)
• Voices from the Boise Hole by Jason Haskins & Evan Sesek (Director: Liberty Leeds Klautsch)
• Head by Oliver Russell Stoddard (Director: Julia Pachoud Bennett)
• In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl (Director: Buffie Main)

2010

• The Good Body by Eve Ensler (Director: Buffie Main)
• Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz (Director: Buffie Main)

2009

• Love Person by Aditi Brennan Kapil (Director Buffie Main and a co-production with East Indian Follies Theater Company)
• Three Tall Women by Edward Albee (Director: Tim Saunders)
• Sex a.k.a. Weiners and Boobs By Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Showalter, and David Wain

2008

• The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane (Director Buffie Main)
• The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heane (Director Traven Rice)
• Reckless by Craig Lucas (Director Larry Dennis)

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