2018-19 Season
Courage Compassion Humanity
Alley Repertory theater presents a season of unexpected perspectives that raise poignant and timely questions about, faith, judgment, and love.
Moving and vibrant, each play tackles truth, courage, and what it really means to risk it all for what we believe.
The Cake
By Bekah Brunstetter, Directed by Buffie Main
Jen lives in New York but has always dreamed of getting married in her small North Carolina hometown, so she heads down south with her partner to ask Della, her late mother’s best friend, to do the honors of making the wedding cake at her bakery. Della’s cakes are legendary, even earning her a spot as a contestant on the “Great American Baking Show.” She is overjoyed at Jen’s request, until she realizes there’s not just one bride, but two, forcing her to re-examine some of her deeply-held beliefs, as well as her own marriage.
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Jodi Sings Judy
Directed by Jason Haskins & Nick Garcia, Music director Kati Sheldon
Jodi Eichelberger and Tod Dunnigan lead Boise’s most talented singers and dancers as they reimagine Judy Garland’s one and only televised Christmas Special. Judy invites the TV cameras into her home for this 1963 Christmas TV special, to share the holiday with her family and her good friends as they all informally drop by. Young Joe and Lorna adorably sing off-key songs, a 17-year old Liza Minnelli is at her best singing and dancing to that classic dance jazz number “Steam Heat”, and Judy belts out her classic songs all under the guise of a warm, family affair. Combining mainstream Christmas rituals and the awkward banter between family on the holidays, this Alley Repertory Theater Christmas Extravaganza will pull on your nostalgic heartstrings and push your funny bone in a way that ONLY Alley Rep. can: by making this Christmas classic irreverent and bittersweet.
Special Thanks to the Off Center Dancers (performing as The Dancing Santas): Lisa Whitwell, Teresa Vaugh, Carly Giacinto, April Hill, Linnaea Christiansen, Arianna Christiansen, Rachel Lyons, Lesley Thompson, Katie Ponozzo, Sam Buckmeir, and Hannah Matsen
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Indecent
By Paula Vogel, Directed by Buffie Main & Traven Rice, Live music by Fleet Street Klezmer Band, Music director Chad Spears
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) tells the deeply moving story of the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Jewish playwright Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance – a play about a forbidden romance that enchanted and outraged audiences. Inspired by true events of censorship and persecution, Indecent is the ultimate love-letter to theater, as the play uses joyous song and dance to revel in one of the most fascinating scandals in theater history. Spanning continents and decades, Indecent charts the journey of a drama upheld as a groundbreaking piece of Jewish literature by some, and an act of obscenity by others.
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