The Underground

The live radio theatre podcast from Duluth, Minn.!

Blake and the gang are back for Season 4, featuring brand new episodes filled with original music, laughs, sound effects, conversation & beer swilling! All captured in front of a live audience at The Underground. Cheers!

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A timely and provocative drama based on George Orwell’s novel, 1984. An editor for the Ministry of Truth, responsible for historical revisionism and “alternative facts”, meets Julia with whom he shares a new-found loathing for the party.

But Big Brother is watching. Orwell wrote, “I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe that something resembling it could arrive… Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.”

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Halloween Special Event!

The cult-classic returns with actors bringing your favorite characters off the screen and into the theatre with live, lip-synching performances and fun audience interaction.

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Holiday Special Event!

An outrageous holiday comedy starring Crumpet, a rebel without a Clause who recounts the true-life tale of an out-of-work writer’s stint as a Macy’s Department Store elf.

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Calendar Girls is the hilarious and touching true story of middle-aged friends Chris and Annie who, upon the sudden loss of Annie’s husband, resolve to raise money to buy a new sofa for the family room at the local Yorkshire hospital. Their racy plan to raise the money involves them and fellow Women’s Institute members tastefully posing nude for an annual calendar.

The successful sales and media storm that follows puts Chris  and Annie’s friendship to the test, while also proving “the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire, the last phase of life is always the most glorious.”

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This family drama introduces Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who is fired from his job, and is struggling with his failed attempts to find success and happiness.

Willy’s slipping mental health, strained relationships with his sons and his dark secrets from the past have eroded the delusional world in which he lives. Now he clings to one final desperate act. This play remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre examining reality versus illusion of the American Dream.

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Sweet Charity is a hopeless romantic who just wants to be loved. She sings, dances, laughs, and cries her way through romance after romance in the Big Apple.

A bright, sexy and sophisticated comedy with hit songs like  “Big Spender”, “If My Friends Could See Me Now”, “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This”, and “I’m a Brass Band Baby”, Sweet Charity captures all the energy, humor, and heartbreak of life in the Big City for an unfortunate but irrepressible optimist.

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Summer Special Event!

After a popular premier in 2017, this celebration of original short plays returns. Written by women from all over the world and directed by women from the Twin Ports region, this series of one-act plays highlights women’s voice.

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The Toxic Avenger takes The Underground by storm! Armed with phenomenal strength, a mutant superhero is out to save New Jersey, end global warming, and woo the prettiest, blindest librarian in town.

Based on the 1984 cult classic film, this side-splitting monster of a musical comedy boasts music by David Bryan (keyboardist and founding member of Bon Jovi). You’re sure to fall in love with this “big green freak!”

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It’s a story almost too incredible to be believed, but it’s true. This Tony Award-winning play is the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. During the height of World War II in Germany, this 65-year-old transgender German managed to live openly as a woman under the noses of both the Nazi and Communist regimes.

Based on conversations with Charlotte, playwright Doug Wright wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, which also scored two Tonys on Broadway.