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  2. The Practical Theatre Company - Wikipedia

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    The first show at the Piper's Alley Theater, The Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee, opened on July 28, 1982, and put the Practical Theatre in the national spotlight when it caught the attention of Saturday Night Live producers Dick Ebersol and Bob Tischler. Just weeks into the show's run, Ebersol and Tischler hired the four stars of the show ...

  3. Nina Vance - Wikipedia

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    The Alley Theatre building. In the 1947, Vance and some friends decided to start a theatre group. She mailed out over 200 postcards inviting artists and potential sponsors to join a theatre company to be located off a Houston alleyway, and at the group's first meeting over 100 people interested in a new amateur theatre for Houston attended. [1]

  4. Alley Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Alley Theatre is a Tony Award-winning theatre company in Houston, Texas. It is the oldest professional theatre company in Texas and the third oldest resident theatre ...

  5. Piper's Opera House - Wikipedia

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    Piper's Opera House is an historic performing arts venue in Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada, United States. Piper's served as a training facility in 1897 for heavyweight boxing champion Gentleman Jim Corbett, in preparation for his title bout with Bob Fitzsimmons. The current structure was built by entrepreneur John Piper in 1885 to ...

  6. Rob Melrose - Wikipedia

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    Rob Melrose in 2018. Rob Melrose is an American theater director and the current Artistic Director of Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, starting in 2019. [1] He is the former Artistic Director and co-founder of the Cutting Ball Theater. [2]

  7. Houston Theater District - Wikipedia

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    Jesse H. Jones Hall. The district, with 19,341 seats for live performances and 1,580 movie seats and is one of only five American cities with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing arts disciplines: the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Ballet, Theatre Under the Stars and The Alley Theatre.

  8. League of Resident Theatres - Wikipedia

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    The League of Resident Theatres (LORT) is a collective bargaining association with over 70 non-profit theatre members in the U.S. LORT members.LORT serves as a way for member resident theaters, also called regional theaters, to bargain collectively on behalf of theater management with Actors' Equity Association, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and United Scenic Artists.

  9. Chris Hutchison - Wikipedia

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    During his five years at the Alley Theater, Hutchison has performed in over twenty productions, [1] including A Behanding in Spokane (Mervyn), [5] [6] Mauritius (Dennis), [7] [8] The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Padraic), [9] Death on the Nile (Simon Mostyn), [10] Subject to Fits (Ippolit), [11] Proof (Hal), [12] and A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit).