The Underpants

The Underpants
Written by	Steve Martin
Date premiered	April 4, 2002 (2002-04-04)
Place premiered	Classic Stage Company
Original language	English
Subject	Die Hose by Carl Sternheim

The Underpants is the most recent adaptation of the 1910 German farce Die Hose by the playwright Carl Sternheim. The adaptation was written by Steve Martin. It was produced at New York City's Off-Broadway theater Classic Stage Company from April 4, 2002 through April 28, 2002.^[1] The play, a "farcical send-up of bourgeois snobbery and conformity"^[2] was directed by Barry Edelstein and featured Cheryl Lynn Bowers and Byron Jennings as Louise and Theo Maske.

Other productions

The play has been produced at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles (March - April 2004) and at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia (September - October 2004. More recent productions include:

Brüka Theatre (Reno, Nevada), November 11, 2005 - February 4, 2006, directed by Brian Barney.^[3]
Showcase Theatre, Exeter, Pa. 2005
Alley_Theatre, Houston, April 1–24, 2005 ^[4]
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, June 6–8, 2008, directed by Jay Edelnant ^[5]
Langhorne Players, Newtown, PA, April 17 - May 2, 2009, directed by Alice Weber^[6]
University of Adelaide Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia, May 9–23, 2009 directed by John Wells^[7]
First Presbyterian Theater, Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 4–20, 2009, directed by Joel D. Scribner^[8]
Princeton Summer Theater, Princeton, New Jersey, August 6–16, 2009, directed by Shawn Fennell^[9]
Rockford College, Artists' Ensemble Theatre, Rockford, Illinois, September 9–26, 2011, directed by Richard Raether^[10]
Shore School Drama Studio, Sydney, Australia, November 18–21, 2009, directed by Rachel Blake
The University of Scranton Players - December 3–6, 2009
The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA, February 16–21, 2009, directed by Rory Ledbetter.^[11]
Dearborn Heights Civic Theater, Dearborn Heights, Michigan- February 20–22 + 26-27 2010, directed by Cynthia Frabutt http://www.dhctstage.org/
Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor, Maine, USA, May 26 - June 30, 2010, directed by Nathan Halvorson ^[12]
Big Idea Theatre, Sacramento, California, USA, August 13 - September 11, 2010, directed by Benjamin T. Ismail ^[13]
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Galloway Township, New Jersey—November 17–20, 2010, directed by Pamela Hendrick^[14]
Chung Ying Theatre Company, Hong Kong, April 1–10, 2011, directed by Gabriel Lee http://www.chungying.com
Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts—Spring 2011, directed by Britt Mitchell, assistant directed by Emily Laverdiere and Kevin Murphy Walunas ^[15]
Pentacle Theatre, Salem, Oregon, July 15-August 6, 2011, directed by Jenni Bertels ^[16]
National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, Australia, 22 - 25, 27 June 2011, directed by Craig Ilott ^[17]
McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas, October 2011, directed by Jd. Bowman ^[18]
Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, California, March, 6 - 9, 11, 13 - 15, 2013, directed by Nick Garcia ^[19]
Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota, Florida, June 26 - July 28, 2013, directed by Bruce Jordan ^[20]
Epic Shit Entertainment, New Delhi, India, February 14–24, 2013, adapted and directed by Madhav Mehta ^[21]
Hartford Stage, Hartford, Connecticut, January 9 - February 9, 2014, directed by Gordon Edelstein^[22]^[23]
Syracuse Stage, Syracuse, New York, October 21 - November 8, 2015, directed by Bill Fennelly ^[24]
The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble, Savannah, Georgia, December 4 - December 20, 2015 ^[25]
Acrosstown Repertory Theatre, Gainesville, Florida, June 3-19, 2016, directed by Jessica Arnold. ^[26]

References

External links

Steve Martin

Albums

Let's Get Small (1977)
A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978)
Comedy Is Not Pretty! (1979)
The Steve Martin Brothers (1981)
The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo (2009)
Rare Bird Alert (2011)
Love Has Come for You (2013)
So Familiar (2015)

Singles	"King Tut" (1978)

Books

Fiction	Shopgirl (2000) The Pleasure of My Company (2003) An Object of Beauty (2010)

Humor	Cruel Shoes (1979) Pure Drivel (1998) The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten. (2012)

Memoir	Born Standing Up (2007)

Children's	The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z (2007)

Screenplays

The Absent-Minded Waiter (short, 1977)
The Jerk (1979)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
¡Three Amigos! (1986)
Roxanne (1987)
L.A. Story (1991)
A Simple Twist of Fate (1993)
Bowfinger (1999)
Shopgirl (2005)
Traitor (story only, 2008)
The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

Plays

Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993)
The Underpants (2002)

Other

The Winds of Whoopie (television special, 1983)
Bright Star (musical, 2014)

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