American Repertory Theater of WNY Presents Steve Martin's THE UNDERPANTS

Coming off a winter hiatus, the American Repertory Theater of WNY continues the celebration of the company's tenth season and the second-half of the 2016-17 season with renowned comic actor and author of PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, Steve Martin's wild satire adaptation of the classic 1910 German farce DIE HOSE by the playwright Carl Sternheim. Artie Award winning director Jeffrey Coyle (FLOYD COLLINS; BLOODY BLOODY Andrew Jackson) returns to American Repertory Theater of WNY to oversee this hysterical romp. THE UNDERPANTS is schedule to open on March 9th running four weeks to April 1st.

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. In The Underpants, Steve Martin brings his comic genius and sophisticated literary style to Carl Sternheim's classic 1910 farce

Candice Kogut returns to American Repertory Theater of WNY (HELLO AGAIN) as the flashing 'Louise Markes' having to answer to her esteemed husband 'Theo Maskes' played by company alumni David C Mitchell. THE UNDERPANTS also features an assortment of characters including the enamored (read: horny) team of 'Frank Versati' played by company alumni Ben Caldwell (AMERICAN IDIOT) and 'Benjamin Cohen', played by Rich Kraemer (BBAJ). Pam Mangus (FLOYD COLLINS) will also make her return to the ART stage as the upstairs neighbor 'Gertrude Deuter' and rounding off the cast as 'Klinglehoff' is Michael Starzinski (MR. PUSSY; CARRIE, THE MUSICAL).

Comedian, musician and film-actor, Steve Martin adapted German playwright Carl Sternheim's 1910 comedy Die Hose, deeply steeped in it's own farcical send-up of German bourgeois snobbery & conformity, and infuses his own comedic twist. Interestingly enough, The Nazi authorities bannEd Sternheim's work not only because of his partial Jewish descent but also because of his savage comedic assaults on the perceivEd Moral corruption of the German bourgeoisie. Martin interprets Sternheim's farce then adds his classic Americana comedic touch to the story.

Production Dates

March 9th, 10th, 11th

March 16th, 17th, 18th

March 23rd, 24th, 25th

March 30th, 31st, April 1st

Showtimes

8:00 pm

Prices

$20 General Admission

$15 Military Veteran/Student

Ticket Information

716-697-0837

www.artofwny.org

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