Undermain Theater's 30th Season!

Profanity
By Sylvan Oswald
Directed by Katherine Owens
A World Premiere

September 12 - October 12, 2013
Previews September 10th and 11th

With: Bruce DuBose, Michael Frederico, Shannon Kearns-Simmons, Alex Organ, and Katy Tye
Designed by John Arnone, Giva Taylor, and Steve Woods

In 1950’s Philadelphia, the Schneider brothers have big dreams for the family real estate business. Struggling against their own disagreements and rival companies, they want to build something that will last. However, when they hire a new secretary, she and her daughter Esther stumble upon long hidden secrets in musty files behind closed doors. In his World Premiere dark comedy, rising young playwright Sylvan Oswald explores a family foundation sinking into decay and the corrupted ties that bind communities.

Abraham Zobell's Home Movie: Final Reel...
By Len Jenkin
Directed by Katherine Owens
A World Premiere

January 17 - February 1, 2014
Previews January 15th and 16th
Performed at THE DALLAS CITY PERFORMANCE HALL

With: Rhonda Boutte, Fred Curchack, Bruce DuBose, and Laura Jorgenson
Designed by John Arnone, Giva Taylor, and Steve Woods

One night the ailing Abraham Zobell escapes his wife’s care to undertake a final, perilous journey to the ocean. At Sister Fleeta’s Go-Go Bar, where the blues and gospel tunes never cease, he discovers a kindred spirit in Uncle Monday, a young girl, Stella, who takes him back to his high school days, his boss from the first job he held at the boardwalk carnival, and a Rabbi on his final pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This new play from three-time Obie-winner Len Jenkin, Abraham Zobell’s Home Movie: Final Reel…, is about a man making the journey backwards through the last seventy years of his life, trying to say goodbye to the love he lost along the way. Undermain returns to the City Performance Hall to create Zobell’s world with dazzling light, scenic wonder, projections and a live band performing American roots music and Doo Wop. Over its thirty year production history Undermain has had the great pleasure to premiere two of Len’s plays, Time in Kafka and Port Twilight in past seasons along with regional premieres of his plays, Margo Veil and Poor Folks Pleasure, making Len Jenkin a perennial Undermain favorite. Now Undermain will have the great pleasure of continuing its longtime collaboration with the world premiere of his latest play, Abraham Zobell’s Home Movie: Final Reel...

We are Proud to Present a Presentation...
By Jackie Sibblies Drury
Full Title: We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915
Directed by Dylan Key
A Regional Premiere

March 22 - April 19, 2014
Previews March 19th, 20th & 21st
Designed by Robert Winn

A troupe of young actors gears up to portray the extermination of the Herero tribe of Namibia. They’re passionate. Energetic. They’ve got piles of research. But what do they really know about being black Africans under German colonization? Is it possible to identify with the victims of history? What about the villains? There is danger in the game they’re playing, and fraught racial histories threaten to tear the troupe apart. As the actors dive further in, this inventive new play from Jackie Sibblies Drury (named a “Top Ten” show by New York Magazine) becomes a hilarious and head-spinning nightmare of identity.

Also This Season...

Additional Spring Production: TBA

Undermain Theater's 30th Anniversary Gala Event
Monday night, April 7th, 2014
Performer and additional information: TBA


Undermain Reads At The Dallas Museum Of Art
Readings of three selections at the Dallas Museum of Art's Horchow Theatre
Titles and Dates: TBA
Readings are free to the public at the DMA