Ready for the spotlight at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
An SDA Student's Journey to the Disney Concert Hall Stage
Go behind the scenes of our historic SIX: The Musical in Concert performance with the Trojan Marching Band.
Author: Delphine Vasko
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…
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.…
Collaboration takes center stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall
The USC Concert Band and USC School of Dramatic Arts partner for a groundbreaking performance of Six: The Musical In Concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Pass Over
Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner, talking shit, passing the time, and hoping that maybe today will be different. As they dream of…
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…
Second Stage: Animal Farm
George Orwell’s parable about totalitarianism anywhere has given the world at least one immortal phrase: “Some are more equal than others.” The animals on a…
Guys and Dolls
Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls brings to life Damon Runyon’s mythical Manhattan, filled with an unforgettable cast of…
Antigone X
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…
Three Sisters
Three remarkable women refuse to give up on their dreams in this timeless exploration of family, ambition, and the courage to keep believing in better…