You know around or after his character roles in JOHNNY MNEMONIC and THE SHOOTER, Dolph got involved in theatre to work on his craft and performed a few one-act plays off-Broadway with Group of Eight and Ensemble Studio Theatre (he and Anette had moved to New York by that time I believe).
"Group Of Eight, the modest New York theatre company with which he's associated, is central to his image rebuilding. The company recently mounted a double bill featuring Lundgren in two contrasting roles -- as a comic, hard-working husband and as a death-row prisoner.
'I'm doing it for my craft. I want a better understanding of dramatic material, of how to make a situation work and make it interesting for an audience. If I manage to make a transition to character-driven roles, even though they may have a lot of action in them, I'll still know what I'm doing.' "
- from "Smart guy Lundgren battles Hollywood stereotype", Calgary Herald, Southam News, 3 December 1995
WATCHING FIRE, written by Jonathan Tindle, is a play that he performed in February/March 1995 about "a man on death row talking about his life and philosophy" .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/ ... -children/
This pic was posted on Corbis mistakingly as "Force Majeure" (which was the follow up play in the program, not with Dolph) but it is from the "Watching Fire" rehearsals:
