Happy End
Set in the gritty streets of Chicago, Happy End tells the tale of an unlikely love affair between a virtuous Salvation Army worker and a…
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The Penelopiad
With acerbic wit and inspired originality, The Penelopiad is a contemporary take on Homer’s Odyssey – retold through the eyes of Penelope, the famously faithful…
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?
A lonely roadside diner becomes the setting for a tense and gripping drama in Mark Medoff’s Obie Award-winning play. Locals and visitors have their lives…
Street Scene
Elmer Rice’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the rampant prejudice inherent in the American Dream through the colorful residents of 1929 New York tenements. Surprisingly relevant…
Bus Stop
A howling snowstorm has halted a bus at a diner west of Kansas City, and the odd-assorted passengers – including a nightclub singer and the…
Kentucky
Hiro – a self-made, single woman in NYC – returns to her native Kentucky to stop her born-again baby sister from marrying a man she…
New Works Festival Year 3
The thesis plays of the graduating MFA in Dramatic Writing cohort are presented as concert readings with professional actors and directors. NWF Year Three is…
New Works Festival Year 1
The first public readings of exciting new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ first-year MFA Dramatic Writing students. More Information
Don’t Go
7 USC students 7 Los Angeles strangers Meet for the very first time. Live. On stage. In front of an audience. Together these strangers might…
Love’s Labour’s Lost
The King of Navarre and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favor of serious study. But the instant they take that vow,…