Past Productions

MFA Y3 Thesis New Work Presentation

MFA Y3 Thesis New Work Presentation (2025)


Featuring the thesis plays of the graduating MFA in Dramatic Writing Cohort Play 1: YOUNG FOOLS By Claire BernsteinDirected by Scout Davis Performance Date &…

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.…

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…

Culminations

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…

Stuff Happens

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…

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…

Something Rotten! The Musical

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…