Shows & Tickets

2008-09 Season

Alley Rep's inaugural season

In this, the inaugural season of Alley Repertory Theater, we will introduce you to people who have to make impossible choices, who only want to be who they are, not what everyone else wants them to be.  In those choices, they inevitably have an impact on others; we will show you scenes of war and chaos, conversations and contemplations, and moments of truth and quiet love.

  • The Little Dog Laughed

    By Douglas Carter Beane, Directed by Buffie Main

    Nominated for the 2007 Pulitzer for Drama, Douglas Carter Beane takes a playful look inside Hollywood where a rising young star, according to his agent, “suffers from a slight…recurring case of homosexuality.”  Enter the male sex work, the sex worker’s girlfriend, and the agent and the satire soars.  All the while, the young star fights to be who he wants to be and fights for his life.  Friendship, laughter and  family are discovered in a most astonishing way.

    More Info

  • The Burial at Thebes

    By Seamus Heaney, Directed by Traven Rice

    There are many translations of Antigone but few with the understated power and spare beauty of Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s version.  He has given the play a new title, but remains faithful to the spirit of Antigone as he finds words to make this classic story of conflict between an inflexible autocrat and a young family rebel familiar to modern audiences.  Award winning, New York Director Traven Rice, reveals the raw, primal power of Greek prose making it impossible not to think of the ongoing war in Iraq.

    More Info

  • Reckless

    By Craig Lucas, Directed by Larry Dennis

    At home Christmas Eve, Rachel finds she must flee for her life from her housewife world of flocked trees and late night TV.  Out she goes through absurdist hoops of people, psychotherapists, and game show hosts.  In a chaos of choices that seem to be made for Rachel by the world around her, she receives a crash course in the loss of innocence.  Yet through goofy encounters and cold sobriety, she still manages to find the heart of a woman she never knew was hers.  

    More Info