press release

Dallas' Undermain Theatre presents Neil Young's Greendale this Wed.-Sat. at Ohio Theater in New York City

"The summer festival with the hippest downtown cred." - TIMEOUT / NY

Undermain Theatre, through special arrangement with Wixen Music Publishing, is pleased to announce the transfer of its production of Neil Young's Greendale to this summers Ice Factory Festival presented by Soho Think Tank at the Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St. in New York City. Tickets are $15 at Smarttix.com or (212) 868.4444.

The Ice Factory Festival is an OBIE award-winning summer festival of new work where artists can take risks, try out new ideas, and bring their projects to a new level.

Plays introduced at the Ice Factory Festival have gone on to garner Drama Desk nominations, Obie Awards, Audience First Awards in Edinburgh, Off-Broadway productions, commercial runs, and national and international tours. ICE FACTORY 08 will mark the15th Anniversary of the festival.

Ice Factory Festivals Artistic Director, Robert Lyons has invited Undermain to perform Neil Young's Greendale on July 23-26, 2008 at 8:00 pm. Undermain last performed at the Festival in the summer of 2000 when it presented its production of Lenora Champagne's Coaticook.

Neil Young's Greendale, the rock opera by the legendary singer - songwriter was adapted for the stage by Undermain Theatre and opened in Dallas on March 29, 2008. It runs through May 3, 2008. This song cycle has been compared to Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Sherwood Anderson's Winesberg Ohio as a portrait of the changing face of small town America. Performed with a live band and sung by an ensemble cast, Greendale explores the lives of three generations of the Green family through themes ranging from corruption to mass media consolidation to environmentalism.

The production is performed by a live band composed of lead guitarist Kenny Withrow of New Bohemians. Paul Semrad of Course of Empire on bass, and Grammy winning drummer Alan Emert, of Brave Combo. Undermain Theatre’s artistic Director Katherine Owens directs. The cast is Bruce DuBose, Newton Pittman, Shannon Kearns-Simmons, Stefanie Tovar, Ian Sinclair, Jonathan Brooks, Marjorie Hayes, Richard Rollin, and Ashley Randall. Designers are Giva Taylor and Rhonda Gorman, costumes; Steve Woods, lighting; and Robert Winn, set.

"Greendale is an overwhelming experience, musically and theatrically."
-Lawson Taitte, The Dallas Morning News

"As presented by Undermain Theatre, Neil Young's Greendale is a hellacious piece of rock n roll This baby kicks; youre not likely to hear a livelier performance in any area theater"
.-Jerome Weeks, KERA 90.1 FM

"Undermain Theatres performance of Neil Young's Greendale takes the rock opera close to its source: the sonic undercurrent in every small town becoming a strange intersection of American dreams, sonic highways, and melodic bridges reminiscent of Wilder's Our Town."
- Cheryl Anderson, Edge Dallas

"The dense, driving sound goes right through the audience and makes for a terrific night of music and theater."
-Martha Heimberg, Turtle Creek News