Alley Theatre

Alley Theatre

The Alley Theatre is an indoor theatre in the city of Houston, Texas, and hosts two stages. The "Hubbard" is the main stage with seating for 824; the more intimate "Neuhaus" seats 310. Nine towers and open-air terraces give the Alley Theatre a castle-like quality. Inside, a staircase spirals from the entrance vestibule to the second-floor lobby. [cite web | title=Calendar of Events: Alley Theatre | publisher=City of Houston | date=2007 | url=http://www.houstontx.gov/events/alley.html | accessdate=2008-05-30] A truly wide variety of plays have been performed in this theatre.

History

The Alley theatre company was founded in 1947 by Nina Eloise Whittington Vance (1914-1980).cite web | author=N.J. Stanley | title=Vance, Nina Eloise Whittington | work=The Handbook of Texas Online | publisher=Texas State Historical Association | date=2001-06-06 | url=http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/VV/fva33.html | accessdate=2007-06-11] Under the leadership of Vance, the Alley Theatre grew from its modest beginnings, in an 85-seat theatre that had to be converted and struck for every performance, to one of the most prestigious nonprofit resident theatres in the United States. The world premiere of Paul Zindel's "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" was staged at the Alley in 1964. [cite web | title=The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | work=enotes| url=http://www.enotes.com/effects-gamma/ | accessdate=2008-05-30] In 1996, the Alley Theatre won the Regional Theatre Tony Award.

The opening of the new home of the Alley Theatre in November 1968 was a nationally chronicled event. Since then, the Alley Theatre has continued to uphold its position as one of the nation's pioneering and leading nonprofit resident theatres.

Having forged alliances with such international luminaries as Edward Albee, Vanessa Redgrave and Frank Wildhorn, landmark theatrical events at the Alley have included the world premieres of "Jekyll & Hyde", "The Civil War", and "Not About Nightingales" a recently discovered play by Tennessee Williams. [cite web | title=Alley Theatre | publisher=Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau | url=http://www.visithoustontexas.com/visitors/performing_arts/listing.details.php?category=12568 | date=2008 | accessdate=2008-05-30]

HYPE

The Alley sponsors what is known as the Houston Young Playwrights Exchange (HYPE), which offers a skills-enhancing experience for people under the age of twenty who want to write for the stage. [cite web|title=The Front Row|work=KUHF Radio|url+http://www.kuhf.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17310&news_iv_ctrl=1521|accessdate=2008-06-25] Every year, several pieces are chosen from the greater Houston area to be produced.

References

External links

* [http://www.alleytheatre.org Alley Theatre official website]
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