About the Play:

Winner of the Outer Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.

A...My Name Is Alice is a musical comedy revue conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd. This successful off-Broadway revue about the joys and sorrows of contemporary women includes songs and sketches written by a multitude of contributors, including such notable talents as Marta Kauffman and David Crane, the creators and Executive Producers of the TV show Friends.

A...My Name Is Alice is an outstanding five-woman musical revue about the many aspects of being female – good and bad – in a world populated by men and other creatures. It consists of some 20 songs by composers such as David Zippel, Doug Katsaros, Winnie Holzman, and Lucy Simon, along with sketches by 25 different writers including Marta Kauffman and David Crane (the creators and executive producers of the hit NBC-TV show Friends) as well as Amanda McBroom (The Rose), comedienne Anne Meara, Lucy Simon (The Secret Garden), and Carol Hall (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas). The show, which takes its title from the children's ABC game/rhyme frequently sung on playgrounds, is a series of comedy sketches, monologues, dance numbers, songs and poems as the characters (both male and female) share their insightful views of what the life of a woman is really like. Sophisticated, bawdy, funny and insightful, the twenty numbers portray friends, rivals, sisters and even members of an all-female travelling basketball team.

Originally produced in 1983 by the Women's Project & Productions (WPP) at the American Place Theatre in New York City, A...My Name Is Alice enjoyed a long run at the Village Gate off-Broadway and was an Outer Critics' Circle Award winner for Best Musical. The show ran successfully for eight months at the now-defunct Teller's Cage Theatre in Toronto, and has since been produced globally in many languages.

Cast: 5 female

What people say:

"Delightful ... The music and lyrics are so sophisticated that they can carry the weight of one-act plays." — The New York Times

"A boodle of laughs." — The New York Post

"Rates an A." — The New York Daily News

"Slick as can be." — The Village Voice

"Compilation of 30 writers and composers provides a vehicle for triple threat actresses to reflect on life as a woman through monologues, scenes, dance and song." — Toronto Star

About the Playwright:

Joan Micklin Silver (1935-2020) was an American director of films and plays, screenwriter and playwright. She broke through Hollywood resistance to female directors to eventually hit a commercial peak with her 1988 rom-com Crossing Delancey. Prior to the film's mainstream success, she was best known for a series of acclaimed independent features, including her remarkable debut, Hester Street (1975) and Between The Lines (1977).

Julianne Boyd is an American theatre director. She is the Founding Artistic Director of the Barrington Stage Company (1995-2022), a regional theatre company in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, where she directed many productions.