2024 production of "Rent." Photo by Craig Schwartz.
On Stage
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.…