She Loves Me
In a 1930s European perfumery, two salesclerks constantly spar and can’t find common ground. But little do they know the anonymous pen pals they have…
2024/25 Season
Peter Weiss’ The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Set in the historic French asylum where the Marquis de Sade often performed plays with his fellow inmates during their imprisonment, this play-within-a-play presents the…
Machinal
Unable to gain financial independence in the 1920s, a young woman is drawn into a loveless marriage with her boss that ends in murder. Based…
As You Like It
Tony Winner Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery’s musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a community-centric tale of utopian Arden, filled with…
Second Stage: Polaroid Stories
A visceral blend of classical mythology and real life stories told by street kids, Naomi lizuka’s Polaroid Stories journeys into a dangerous world where myth-making…
Machinal (Streamed Performances)
Unable to gain financial independence in the 1920s, a young woman is drawn into a loveless marriage with her boss that ends in murder. Based…
Skeleton Crew
In 2008 Detroit, a small automotive factory is on the brink of foreclosure and a tight-knit crew of auto workers face an uncertain future as…
Second Stage: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end…
Fall 2024 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…
Old Times
When Deeley and his wife Kate are visited by Anna, a mysterious friend of Kate’s from long ago, a trip down memory lane quickly becomes…
Troilus and Cressida
For seven long years the Trojans and Greeks have been at war with no end in sight. Ensnared in the madness are young lovers Troilus…
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…
Blue Stockings
The year is 1896. Few universities accept women, and those pursuing academics are disdainfully labeled “Blue Stockings” – unnatural, educated women. Girton College, Cambridge becomes…
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…
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: 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…
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.…