THEATRE + COMEDY

Alley Theatre offers a second summer play this year,  St. Nicholas, a vampire story.  St. Nicholas, by Conor McPherson, will run July 23 July 15 - August 8, 2010 on the Neuhaus Stage this summer opposite the ExxonMobil Summer Chills series production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. 

NOTE:  Due to the illness of star and director James Black, St. Nicholas will now preview July 23 and open July 24.

In the vampire story St. Nicholas, Tony Award-winning Irish playwright Conor McPherson weaves a mesmerizing tale about a theatre critic who falls in love with an actress and becomes a servant to the vampires. The New York Times says, "Like the best of fairy tales, spooky campfire recitations and the self-aggrandizing myths spun in barrooms, this shaggy vampire story touches on primal concerns beneath its lurid surface." James Black relates this mysterious narrative in a solo performance.

Recommend for mature audiences, violent sexual content and strong language.

St. Nicholas, written by Conor McPherson and directed by James Black, begins performances July 15, opens officially July 17 and runs through August 8 on the Neuhaus Stage.

St. Nicholas will feature Alley Theatre Artist James Black in his first solo performance at the Alley Theatre. James Black is proud to be celebrating his 22nd consecutive season at the Alley where as an actor and occasional director, he has been involved in over one hundred productions. Recent appearances include Harvey (Elwood P. Dowd) Mrs. Mannerly (Jeffrey), Our Town (Stage Manager), The Farnsworth Invention, Rock 'n' Roll (Max), The Man Who Came to Dinner (Sheridan Whiteside), A Christmas Carol (Mrs. Dilber/Jacob Marley), Cyrano de Bergerac (Le Bret), Othello (Iago), Arsenic and Old Lace (Jonathan Brewster), Treasure Island (Long John Silver), Hitchcock Blonde (Hitch), A Moon for the Misbegotten (James Tyrone Jr.), Orson's Shadow (Olivier), Journey's End (Lieutenant Osborne), A Christmas Carol (Scrooge), The Crucible (Proctor), After the Fall (Quentin), Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Marcus Lycus), Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch), Sherlock Holmes (Moriarty), Hamlet (Claudius), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (George), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (McMurphy), How I Learned to Drive (Uncle Peck), A View From the Bridge (Eddie Carbone), and Not About Nightingales (Butch O'Fallon) among others.

He has also directed Doubt, Death on the Nile, Glengarry Glen Ross, Deathtrap, Dial "M" for Murder, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Foreigner, Of Mice and Men and As Bees in Honey Drown.

His film and television credits include Olympia, The Man with the Perfect Swing, Houston: The Legend of Texas, Fire and Rain, Challenger, Night Game, and Killing in a Small Town . He received a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actor for Not About Nightingales, and a BackStage West Garland Award for his appearance as Eddie Carbone in the Alley's production of A View from the Bridge.

TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets to St. Nicholas start at $21. All tickets to St. Nicholas are available for purchase at www.alleytheatre.org, at the Alley Theatre Box Office, 615 Texas Avenue, or by calling 713.220.5700. Groups of 10 or more can receive special concierge services and select discounts by calling 713.315.3346. The added convenience of reservations by phone or Internet is available for a nominal fee. Tickets purchased in person at the Alley Theatre Box Office have a $1 building restoration fee.