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 &…
2024/25 Season
Something Rotten! (Streamed Performances)
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…
Blue Stockings (Streamed Performances)
The year is 1896. Few universities accept women, and those pursuing academics are disdainfully labeled “Blue Stockings” – unnatural, educated women. Girton College, Cambridge becomes…
Troilus & Cressida (Streamed Performances)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…