Empower the Vote: Suppression to Expression
Empower the Vote: Suppression to Expression is a devised virtual and theatrical labyrinth created by Design and Production students at the USC School of Dramatic…
Past Productions
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…
Camino Real
The Camino Real is a dead end—the end of the road in a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition.…
Othello
In William Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece, newly married and promoted Othello finds himself the pawn in the manipulative games of his right-hand man, Iago. With powerful…
Guarded
A sweltering summer in Los Angeles. On location for a big Hollywood feature. So many dreams in the balance. L.A. playwright Boni B. Alvarez has…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romance, lust, nature, mysticism and the blurred lines between dreams and reality are explored in an enchanted moonlit forest on a warm summer night. Join…
Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Set during the Civil War, this explosively powerful new drama by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks follows a slave, Hero, from West Texas to the…
Barbarians
The quiet life in a small provincial town is suddenly disturbed by the imminent arrival of the first railroad. In Barbarians, Maxim Gorky investigates the…
The Minotaur
A present-day version of a classic Greek myth, The Minotaur examines the tensions between family, love and individual choice. Ariadne must choose between her half-brother,…
Mad Forest
When rebellion brings down a dictator, what is left in the void? How will you use your freedom? Written in the aftermath of the 1989…