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…
Past Productions
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…
The Heidi Chronicles
Witty, insightful, and poignant, Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning comedy finds the laugh-out-loud humor in Heidi Holland’s coming of age during the Nixon…
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…
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…
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…
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…