Undermain Theatre

Four incredible plays presented by an outstanding company of local North Texas theatre professionals. Come join us for the 43rd season at Undermain!

Undermain Theatre has brought high quality, innovative live professional theatre to North Texas for 43 years from our basement home in Deep Ellum. Created by local Dallas artists, each season brings a curated mix of modern classics and new works from playwrights at all stages of their careers. Undermain strives each season to keep their productions affordable and accessible to all. With discounts for seniors, students, educators and Industry artists to every performance, as well as tiered pricing to offer deeper discounts to early ticket buyers, it has never been more affordable to attend a production in the basement.

Keeping those ticket prices low is where you and North Texas Giving Day fit in. A donation of $25 dollars supports our commitment to keep it affordable...something that is especially relevant today.

Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn’s post-authoritarian vision of an America where criticism and dissonance is suppressed, the murder of those perceived as potential threats has become popular entertainment and theatre has all but ceased to exist. With his trademark dry humor, poignant language and subtle characterization, Wallace Shawn eases the audience into an awkward casualness only to drop them in a world complacent to the horrors executed by its inhabitants.

for the rest of our lives by Erin Malone Turner

Does love last longer than a lifetime? Erin Malone Turner’s poetic exploration of love and relationship follows a young couple through multiple incarnations, from ancient times to present day. Their love is reborn as they continue to encounter one another through time and space. We may meet our soulmate in this lifetime, but happily ever after is never guaranteed. If love can endure beyond a single life, however, perhaps the happiness it creates can endure as well—a love story that stretches across millennia.

VEAL by Jojo Jones

What if absolute, reigning power fell into the hands of someone with a taste for nostalgia, lunchables, and holds a middle school grudge? Chelsea, Queen of North America, relishes her power over those who can’t quite remember history—or was it history class? In her queendom, governing is far less interesting than revenge. What begins as a class reunion quickly curdles into something far more sinister. Wickedly funny, unsettling, and relentlessly satirical, VEAL peels back the comforting myths of justice to reveal something far more dangerous: the intoxicating pleasure of making someone else suffer.

THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT CRY) by Tennessee Williams

Everything in his life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is in his life. —Elia Kazan​

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Brother and sister, Felice and Clare find themselves alone in a theatre during a tour of their play titled The Two-Character Play. The rest of the company has deserted them, leaving the siblings to perform alone. In this play within a play, the siblings erase the separation between their own lives with the lives of the characters they portray. Tennessee Williams explores the precarious relationship between the artist and the art, drawing from his own autobiographical details including his real life, institutionalized sister and his own issues with substance abuse.

North Texas Giving Day is a great time to become a member of our family of donors. When you become an Undermain donor, you will see how your generosity helps all of us create the community that exists during a live production. Each performance is unique in its own way, fueled by the energy and performance of the actors and artists combined with the reactions and participation of each different audience. You never have to ask, is this real? Is this authentic? Remember us with a donation and your generosity will help keep community growing in the basement and help keep live theatre accessible and affordable for everyone. That's more important than ever today.