How Do We Talk About Actors’ Bodies?
Like so many others, I spent hours last week tearing through the new season of Arrested Development on Netflix. After an early episode, a friend asked me what I thought so far. I… Continue reading
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Staff Survey Series: Ben Bryant
Job at Undermain: Facilities Manager/Master Electrician. I assist with set builds and am in charge of general upkeep of physical facility. Describe your typical day/duties at the theatre. During production- Build or handle… Continue reading
Staff Survey Series: Ken Bernstein
Job at Undermain: technical director Describe your typical day/duties at the theatre. I do theatre because there is no typical. On any given day I can be sourcing materials, drafting construction drawings,building or… Continue reading
Deep Ellum Dining fit for Epic Heroes
If you’re headed back to Undermain Theatre for An Iliad, chances are you’ll be looking for a bite to eat on your way in. On the other hand, after the exhausting battles and… Continue reading
The Story Of An Iliad Is Not The Story Of The Iliad
Tonight Undermain opens the second run of An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare. Most audiences know this play as the one-man version of The Iliad. That’s not entirely accurate, and the… Continue reading
DON’T MISS THIS SCRIPT: Dead City
This week, Dylan Key, Undermain’s Associate Director, recommends Dead City by Sheila Callaghan. * * * There’s a play, first produced in 2005, about a mother-daughter relationship around Christmas, that features a talking… Continue reading
National New Play Network Announces A New Play Exchange
The National New Play Network recently announced a $110,000 reward from the Doris Duke Foundation to build what they’re calling a New Play Exchange. The exchange will be web-based and lean heavily on… Continue reading
“I am hopelessly entangled in the spell that the lines have cast all around me”: The Paintings of Tagore
Untitled, 1934 Rabindranath Tagore Imagine blowing out the candles on your sixtieth birthday cake and thinking, “My wish this year is to become a painter. Or…no, not just a painter….a world renowned painter!”… Continue reading
Ariana Cook Talks About Undermain’s Upcoming Reading Of Sacrifice By Rabindranath Tagore
On Saturday at 2:00PM, Ariana Cook returns to the DMA (she directed last year’s Color Struck by Zora Neale Hurston) with Undermain’s reading of Sacrifice by Rabindranath Tagore. Stephen Foglia spoke with her… Continue reading
Director Patrick Kelly Looks Back At The Ghost Sonata
Last Saturday, Undermain’s production of The Ghost Sonata concluded its run. Stephen Foglia sat down with the director, Patrick Kelly, to do a post-mortem on his most recent success. Stephen Foglia: We just… Continue reading