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Rebeck, Ruhl, Sedaris, Sorkin, Stoppard, et al. Set for Alley Theatre Season

Aaron Sorkin
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Aaron Sorkin
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

The Alley Theatre’s 2008-2009 season will now include David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries, starring company member Todd Waite, to run December 2-28.
The popular solo piece is based on Sedaris’ real-life job as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s Santaland display.

As previously announced, the season will open with Edmond Rostand’s tale of adventure and love, Cyrano de Bergerac on the Neuhaus Stage, October 3-November 2, followed by Bob Clyman bio-medical thriller, Secret Order on the Hubbard Stage, October 24-November 23. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story of Christmas will bring the holidays to the Hubbard Stage, November 21-December 28.

The new year will begin with George Bernard Shaw’s battle between mother and daughter over sex, love, money, and morality, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, at the Hubbard Stage, January 9-February 1, followed by Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl’s re-telling of the Greek myth of Orpheus, will fill the Neuhaus Stage, January 30-March 1.

The Man Who Came to Dinner, a comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, will take the Hubbard Stage, February 20-March 22, followed by Teresa Rebeck’s sinister comedy Mauritius on the Neuhaus Stage, March 27-April 26. The season continues with Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard on Hubbard Stage, April 24-May 17, and it will close with The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin, also on the Hubbard Stage, June 5-June 28.

For more information call 713-220-5700 or visit alleytheatre.org.