2021-22 Season
Metamorphosis
Intermission is over! As we return to the stage, Alley Rep’s 13th season reflects the bold-risk-taking theater we have always been and the theater we want to become. We have taken advantage of our time off the stage to thoroughly examine the theatre we make. This season we are asking for growth from our audiences, our play choices, and ourselves.
We ask our audience to evolve with us as we tell stories of experiences they are less familiar with. In the shadow of the ghost light, we all found ourselves hiding and hardening away into a cocoon. The difficult part is growing out of that calcified state and into something wholly different. The metamorphosis is nothing to fear. We plan to play more fiercely and connect more deeply with our community. No more hiding or hardening. Welcome to Alley Repertory Theatre’s 2021-22 season “Metamorphosis.”
This season we are asking for growth from our audiences, our play choices, and ourselves.
We plan to play more fiercely and connect more deeply with our community.
Alley Rep is committed to working intentionally and rigorously to break down barriers to attending, learning, and creating theater—including those based on race, gender, sexuality, ability, and economics.
Over 13 seasons, Alley Rep has grown into a theater of, and for, our community.
Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical
By Stephan Elliott, By Allan Scott, Directed by Buffie Main, Music director Dr. John Hamilton
Based on the smash-hit movie, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert 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. This Olivier and Tony award-winning musical features a hit parade of dance floor favorites including “It’s Raining Men,” “I Will Survive,” “Hot Stuff,” “Boogie Wonderland,” “Go West,” “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” and “I Love The Nightlife”. Wildly fresh and funny, this extravaganza features an array of colorful characters and is a journey to the heart of FABULOUS!
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The Royale
By Marco Ramirez, Directed by John Wicks & Buffie Main
Inspired by the life and story of boxer Jack Johnson, The Royale by Marco Ramirez is the story of a Black prizefighter navigating life in the United States in the early 20th century.
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.
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