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The Alley Theatre will host the Teenpalooza Fall 2013, that showcases the visions and voices of the Alley Theatre’s Slam Poets. The evening of poetry and theatre that celebrates the talent of local youth takes place Monday, November 11 at 7 p.m. on the Neuhaus Stage. Admission is free. Some performances may contain adult language and adult situations. 

Last year’s Teenpalooza winners, Ter'ell Cloud  and Jennifer Layer from John H. Reagan High School, went on to win at the state competition at the Texas Youth Poetry Slam while representing Meta-Four Houston, a Writers in the Schools (WITS) project. They then went on to compete at the national competition, Brave New Voices, in Chicago. Ter'ell Cloud will be a featured performer at Teenpalooza Fall 2013.

In addition to Teenpalooza, the Alley Theatre’s Education and Community Engagement Department also offers a Slam Poets Artist-in-Residence Program for local schools. Additionally, the Alley Theatre is partnering closely with WITS to create a city-wide Slam Poets platform for Houston’s newest voices. Together the Alley Theatre and WITS hope to give the tools and space for all teens to explore their individual creativity through spoken word. For rates and additional information, email slampoets@alleytheatre.org or call 713.315.5423.

ABOUT THE ALLEY THEATRE:
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 works, and new artists of the American theatre. 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. As 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 that will become classics for the future developed through the Alley’s New Play Initiative. The Alley’s productions are built and rehearsed in the Alley Theatre Center for Theatre Production – a 75,000-square-foot facility adjacent to the theatres themselves and are performed on the 824-seat Hubbard Stage and the 310-seat Neuhaus Stage. The Alley continues to pave the way for Houston audiences to experience thought-provoking, diverse and transformative theatre produced and performed by its professional company year round. 

GET OUT! Come back in and GET OUT again!!! Possibly go commit suicide die die on vacation like Ken Lay...allegedly of course.

Right now in London you can take the piss, as the Brits say, at Enron! The English are having a go at the Houston disaster over a stage play called Enron, based off the Houston based energy company that committed heaps amount of fraud...understatement we know.

The sold-out show is doing so well in London's Royal Court Theatre that Sony Pictures has purchased the film rights from the playwright, Lucy Prebble, and is looking to make a movie out of the show (Fun with Dick and Jane anyone?) even commissioning the playwright to work on the screenplay about "most notorious scandal in modern corporate history." P.S. look for it on Broadway in April 2010.

Wall Street before Wall Street 2 comes out with Shia LaBeouf? As much as DISH thinks some of the folks involved with the idea of Astrodome Studios are silly, self involved and worthless...Shouldn't this movie be made here since the disaster happened here? Shouldn't the money go to help out the folks that lost everything because of this mess?? We are just sayin'...

P.P S. hasn't this already been done?? Filmmaker Alex Gibney made the Oscar-nominated documentary "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"in 2005. Plus... Warner Bros. has been developing an Enron movie for years, adapted by Sheldon Turner from the nonfiction book "Conspiracy of Fools" by Kurt Eichenwald. Leonardo DiCaprio is a producer on that project, which director Robert Schwentke ("The Time Traveler's Wife") has been developing.

So what makes this such a hot topic??  See you at the movies! =)