Dick Wolf: “A Champion for Actors”
Alumni and Faculty of the USC School of Dramatic Arts reached out to share their connections to the Emmy-winning creator/producer.
honoring Mr. Wolf
Author: Delphine Vasko
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…
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…
Deep Blue Sound
On a picturesque island in the Pacific Northwest, a town is in crisis because the whales have gone missing. Abe Koogler’s Deep Blue Sound is…
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…
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 Midsummer Night’s Dream
Feuding fairy royalty, itinerant actors and ill-fated lovers meet in an enchanted moonlit forest on a warm summer night and prove the course of true…
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.…
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…
Something Rotten!
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…