On Stage

Celebratory photo from the 2024 musical production Rent.

2024 production of "Rent." Photo by Craig Schwartz.

Upcoming Productions

Second Stage: Anyone Can Whistle

Second Stage: Anyone Can Whistle


Anyone Can Whistle is Stephen Sondheim’s musical about a corrupt mayoress who fakes a miracle to save her bankrupt town, and the romance between a…

Culminations

Fall 2025 Culminations


Many of our performance classes offer culminating performances. Please see below for dates, times and locations for many of them. Solo Performance – THTR 479…

MFA: Don't Feed the Pigeons

Don’t Feed the Pigeons


Welcome to rehearsals for Don’t Feed the Pigeons. What begins as a typical rehearsal process takes increasingly unsettling turns as the company prepares its play-within-a-play.…

Antigone X (Streamed Performances)


Antigone X by SDA Professor Paula Cizmar reimagines Sophocles’ tragedy for our troubled times, exploring how bonds of kinship and shared humanity endure–or fracture–under the…

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night


Shakespeare’s beloved romantic comedy spins a whirlwind of passion and disguise on the island of Illyria. When Viola is shipwrecked and separated from her twin…

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project


The Laramie Project is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we…

Blue Window

Blue Window


At a Manhattan dinner party, seven strangers’ casual conversation reveals deeper truths about love, loss, and the search for connection with touching comic irony. Craig…

Second Stage: Julius Caesar


Power, betrayal, and the fall of a powerful leader. Shakespeare’s timeless political thriller explores the deadly consequences of ambition and conspiracy as Caesar’s closest allies…

Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde


From the creators of the iconic film comes a musical that’s smart, sassy, and seriously entertaining. Follow Elle Woods as she leaves her Southern California…

Second Stage: Love and Information


Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone…

The Gods are not to blame

The Gods Are Not To Blame


Set against the backdrop of a Yoruba kingdom, Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not to Blame presents a gripping tale of King Odewale’s tragic journey…

Second Stage: Working


Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the workers that the world so often takes…

Second Stage: The Wild Party


Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on…