Season Archive

WORLD PREMIERE
The Underpants
Mar. 20 - May 12 2002
By Carl Sternheim, in a new version by Steve Martin, directed by Barry Edelstein

Theobald Maske has an unusual problem: his wife's underpants won't stay on. One Sunday morning they fall to her ankles right in the middle of town - a public scandal! Mortified, Theo swears to keep her at home until she can find some less unruly undies. Amid this chaos he's trying to rent a room in their flat. The prospective lodgers have some underlying surprises of their own. Steve Martin, award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and humorist, brings his comic genius and sophisticated literary style to Sternheim's classic 1910 farce. His hilarious new version will be staged by Artistic Director Barry Edelstein.