Second Stage: Stuff Happens

“Stuff happens and it’s untidy, and freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.” The American…

MFA Y2 Playwrights’ Workshop (2025)

The MFA Year 2 Playwrights’ Workshop productions are dynamic explorations of scripts by the Year 2 Students of the MFA in Dramatic Writing Program. Play…

Something Rotten! (Streamed Performances)

Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as…

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

Set in 1980s New York City, Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece follows a gay man abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus…

Spring 2025 Culminations

Many of our performance classes offer culminating performances. Please see below for dates, times and locations for many of them. Ghosts of USC: The Wedding…

Second Stage: Bat Boy: The Musical

Based on “a true story” in The Weekly World News, this ridiculous, heartfelt musical comedy/horror show is about a half boy/half bat found in a…

Second Stage: A Man of No Importance

Alfie Byrne is a bus conductor in 1964 Dublin whose heart holds secrets that he can’t share with anyone but his imagined confidante, Oscar Wilde.…