April 11 & 12, 2026
THE GREENBERGS
A performance of winning scripts from the 2025 Greenberg Competition
Come enjoy a performance of all 4 short plays – the winning scripts from the 2025 Greenberg Competition. The performance of all 4 scripts will run under 2 hours. After the winning scripts were announced at last season’s GREENBERG FESTIVAL, Alley Theatre directors took the scripts, edited, cast them, and directed them for this performance. The winning scripts from the 2026 Competition will be announced at these performances (and performed in April 2027)
Tickets: $12 / Festival Seating
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Performance at 7:00pm on Saturday & 2:00pm on Sunday/
at The Jake Hoover Theatre (home of THE ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY)
923 Jackson Street / Anderson, IN 40616
Please enter at the alley door off Jackson Street
THE 2026-2027 | 13th SEASON
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Few American plays burn as fiercely as CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. In this Pulitzer Prize–winning drama, Tennessee Williams takes us into the sweltering heat of a Mississippi plantation, where a Southern family gathers to celebrate a birthday—and quietly wage war over love, truth, inheritance, and longing. As the evening unfolds, Brick and Maggie’s brittle marriage collides with Big Daddy’s looming mortality, exposing secrets that refuse to stay buried. By turns raw, poetic, and darkly funny, THE ALLEY’S first show of the season remains a searing portrait of desire, denial, and the cost of living a lie.
Tickets: $12 / Festival Seating / Click on the poster for tickets.
Performance at 7:00pm on Saturday & 2:00pm on Sunday/
at The Jake Hoover Theatre (home of THE ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY)
923 Jackson Street / Anderson, IN 40616
Please enter at the alley door off Jackson Street
Holiday cheer gets a heavenly makeover in NUNCRACKERS, the delightfully zany Christmas installment of the “Nunsense” series by Dan Goggin. This show is a bit out of THE ALLEY THEATRE’s “wheelhouse” but we can’t resist this story of the Little Sisters of Hoboken as they stage their very own cable-access Christmas special—complete with tap-dancing nuns, heartfelt carols, and a manger scene that may or may not go according to plan. Bursting with music, mischief, and just the right touch of irreverence, NUNCRACKERS is a joyful celebration of faith, friendship, and festive fun that proves the holiday spirit is alive and well at Mount Saint Helen’s Convent.
Tickets: $12 / Festival Seating / Click on the poster for tickets.
Performance at 7:00pm on Saturday & 2:00pm on Sunday
at The Jake Hoover Theatre (home of THE ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY)
923 Jackson Street / Anderson, IN 40616
Please enter at the alley door off Jackson Street
Ten strangers. One isolated island. A storm closing in. In AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, Agatha Christie crafts her most chilling and ingenious mystery. Lured to a remote estate under false pretenses, the guests soon discover that each harbors a dark secret—and that an unseen hand is delivering judgment, one by one. As suspicion mounts and alliances fracture, paranoia tightens its grip. With relentless suspense and razor-sharp twists, this masterwork of psychological intrigue keeps audiences guessing until its final, breathtaking revelation.
Tickets: $12 / Festival Seating / Click on the poster for tickets.
Performance at 7:00pm on Saturday & 2:00pm on Sunday
at The Jake Hoover Theatre (home of THE ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY)
923 Jackson Street / Anderson, IN 40616
Please enter at the alley door off Jackson Street
Newlyweds Paul and Corie Bratter are ready to begin their happily-ever-after—if they can survive a fifth-floor walk-up, an eccentric neighbor, and their own wildly different temperaments. Neil Simon delivers one of Broadway’s most beloved romantic comedies, sparkling with wit, warmth, and razor-sharp observation. As practical Paul and free-spirited Corie navigate the early days of marriage, misunderstandings bloom into laughter, and love is tested in the most unexpected ways. Tender, timeless, and irresistibly funny, this script is a celebration of opposites attracting—and learning to meet in the middle.
Tickets: $12 / Festival Seating / Click on the poster for tickets.
Performance at 7:00pm on Saturday & 2:00pm on Sunday
at The Jake Hoover Theatre (home of THE ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY)
923 Jackson Street / Anderson, IN 40616
Please enter at the alley door off Jackson Street
In KING LEAR, the master playwright unleashes one of theatre’s most powerful and devastating tragedies. When the aging king divides his kingdom according to declarations of love, he sets in motion a storm of betrayal, ambition, and madness that tears apart both family and nation. Stripped of power and certainty, Lear is forced to confront the fragile nature of authority, loyalty, and even his own identity. Epic in scope yet piercingly intimate, This, THE ALLEY’S final play of the season, is a searing meditation on pride, justice, and what it means to be human in a world undone.
Tickets: $12 / Festival Seating / Click on the poster for tickets.
Performance at 7:00pm on Saturday & 2:00pm on Sunday
at THE ANDERSON MUSEUM of ART
32 W. 10th Street / Anderson, IN 40616