THE ALLEY THEATRE
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Gregory Boyd, Artistic Director
 

PRESENT

The Other Place

By Sharr White

Directed by Don Stephenson

October 23 - November 15, 2015

  

The Alley Theatre presents  
 THE OTHER PLACE

Neuhaus Theatre

 


The Alley Theatre announces Cast & Creative Team for THE OTHER PLACE

- Single Tickets for the 2015-2016 Season are on sale now.

HOUSTON – Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd announces the cast and creative team for The Other Place. Josie de Guzman leads the cast as Juliana Smithton, a neurologist whose research leads to a potential breakthrough for a new treatment. Just as it does, her life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleagues, she enters into a mystery that blurs fact with fiction, the past with the present, until the elusive truth is unraveled in a windswept cottage on the shores of Cape Cod.

The Other Place, written by Sharr White and directed by Don Stephenson, opens October 28, 2015, with performances continuing through November 15, 2015. In selecting The Other Place, Artistic Director Gregory Boyd was particularly drawn to the high intellect and vulnerability of the main character. “When someone has superior intellect, they often feel they are invincible. This play explores what happens when someone’s greatest strength suddenly becomes their greatest enemy.”


"The first glimmer of it comes on a Friday."  Josie de Guzman as Juliana in the Alley Theatre’s production of The Other Place. Photo by John Everett.

 

 

The cast of The Other Place features Josie de Guzman as Juliana, Nick Farco as The Man, John Jellison as Ian and Ashley Austin Morris as The Woman. The creative team includes Scenic Designer Michael Schweikardt, Costume Designer Tracy Christensen, Lighting Designer Stephen Terry, Sound Designers Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen and Projection Designer Sven Ortel. Additional members of the creative team include New York Casting by Stewart/Whitley and Assistant Director Brandon Weinbrenner.


Josie de Guzman as Juliana in the Alley Theatre’s production of The Other Place. Photo by John Everett.

 

 

The Other Place received its world premiere Off-Broadway with MCC Theatre and subsequently received its Broadway premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club. The Other Place was also a recipient of the 2010 Playwrights First Award; the 2011 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Visions Fund Award; and was an Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.  White will join Boyd to discuss the play in detail following the Thursday, October 29, 2015 performance.


Josie de Guzman as Juliana in the Alley Theatre’s production of The Other Place. Photo by John Everett.

 

 

Director Don Stephenson, making his Alley Theatre directing debut, has directed critically acclaimed productions of The 39 Steps, Noises Off, Lend Me a Tenor, Deathtrap, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Oleanna, The Cottage, and The Great Unknown. He developed and directed the new chamber version of Titanic in 2012 at The Hangar Theatre to critical acclaim and was nominated for 11 Broadway World Awards including Best Director.  He also directed the staged concert of Titanic at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.  Stephenson starred as Leo Bloom in the Tony Award winning Broadway production of The Producers.  His most recent Broadway appearance was as the D'ysquith family in the Tony Award winning Broadway production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. His other Broadway credits include Rock of Ages, Private Lives, Dracula, Titanic, Parade, By Jeeves, The Bandwagon, Pardon My English, and Wonderful Town.


TICKET AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Tickets are available online at alleytheatre.org, by phone at 713.220.5700 or in person at the Alley Theatre Box Office, 615 Texas Avenue.  Tickets to all productions start at $26.  Subscriptions are currently on sale for all productions and range in price from $129 - $614. Discounted ticket for groups of 10 or more can be purchased by calling 713.315.3346.  This production contains adult language and mature themes.

 


ABOUT THE ALLEY THEATRE

The Alley Theatre, one of America’s leading not-for-profit theatres, is a nationally recognized performing arts company lead by Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean R. Gladden. Home to a Resident Company of actors, the Alley creates a wide-ranging repertoire and innovative productions of classics, neglected modern plays, and premieres.

Alley All New, the initiative to commission and develop new work year round, features the Alley All New Festival each season presenting workshops and readings of new plays and musicals in process.  Additionally the Alley serves 65,000 students annually with award-winning education and community programs including in-school arts integration residencies, school tours and student matinees.

A recipient of the Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Alley has brought productions to Broadway, 40 American cities including New York’s Lincoln Center and internationally to London, Berlin, Paris, and St. Petersburg throughout its 69 year history. The Alley Theatre began a $46.5 million building renovation in 2014-2015 season, the first major improvements since the building opened in 1968. With more than 500 performances in 2015-2016, the Alley will produce more shows than all other performing arts organizations in the Houston Theater District combined.

  

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 ABOUT THE ALLEY THEATRE The Alley Theatre produces 400 performances annually, more than all other performing arts organizations in the Theater District combined.  The Alley has attracted over 8 million people to Houston’s Theater District since 1968 and has a $34.5 million annual economic impact on the City of Houston (“Arts & Economic Prosperity III: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts & Culture Organizations and their Audiences in the City of Houston,” Americans for the Arts, 2005.)

The Alley Theatre, one of America’s leading not-for-profit theatres, is a nationally recognized performing arts company focused on collaborating with resident actors, visiting artists, directors, designers, dramaturgs, and authors to cultivate the new voices, new work, and new artists of the American theatre.  A staff of 177 is under the direction of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean R. Gladden. The Alley has also brought its productions to 40 American cities, and to Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg and New York’s Lincoln Center, as well as to major European festivals (including two in one season at the Venice Biennale) and Broadway. A recipient of the Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Alley creates a wide-ranging repertoire and innovative productions of classics, neglected modern plays, and premieres, as well as new works developed through the Alley’s new play initiative.

 

 



 TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets start at $26. All tickets are available for purchase at alleytheatre.org, at the Alley Theatre Box Office or by calling 713.220.5700. Groups of 10 or more can receive special concierge services and select discounts by calling 713.220.5700 and asking for the group sales department.