Upcoming shows

Begins Jan 26th
SMART PEOPLE
BY
LYDIA R. DIAMOND

DIRECTED BY
KENNY LEON

The quest for love, achievement and identity is universal, but what role does race play in the story of our lives? On the eve of Obama’s first election, four Harvard intellectuals find themselves entangled in a complex web of social and sexual politics in this provocative and funny new play by Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly), helmed by Kenny Leon (The Wiz), the Tony Award®-winning director of the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun.

Begins March 26
DEAR EVAN HANSEN
BOOK BY
STEVEN LEVENSON

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY
BENJ PASEK & JUSTIN PAUL

CHOREOGRAPHED BY
DANNY MEFFORD

DIRECTED BY
MICHAEL GREIF

The award-winning creators behind some of Second Stage’s most celebrated productions join forces this season in DEAR EVAN HANSEN. Directed by three-time Tony® nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal and Grey Gardens), this acclaimed new musical features music and lyrics by Tony® nominees Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (A Christmas Story, Dogfight) and a book by Steven Levenson (Showtime’s “Masters of Sex”).

Feb 12 - Mar 27 It's winter in Minnesota, and a Zimbabwean family is preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter, a first-generation American. But when the bride insists on observing a traditional African custom, it opens a deep rift in the household. Rowdy and affectionate, Familiar pitches tradition ...

MARCH 11, 2016 – APRIL 24, 2016
PETER JAY SHARP THEATER
Written by Anne Washburn
Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
In a ranch house deep in Texas Hill Country, a once tight-knit group of friends reunites to bury one of their own. But as they look backward through their lives, it becomes clear they’ve lost more than just their old pal. In this haunting new play from Anne Washburn, the boundaries between then and now grow disarmingly blurry as these estranged friends confront their slippery past.

May13 - June 26
Written by Gregory S. Moss
Directed by Carolyn Cantor
Abandoned by his wayward mom, Daniel is consigned to spend summer with granddad in a Rhode Island beach town, where the locals don’t look kindly on city kids. But his hapless vacation turns around when he meets Izzy: tough-acting, back-sassing, beguiling, and taken. Gregory S. Moss’s feisty romantic comedy follows a passing fling that could last a lifetime — as impossible and charmed as an indian summer.

Jan 16 - feb 28
Classmates, yet virtual strangers, Caroline and Anthony have more in common than they know. And ode to life, love, and human connection, i an you will warm your heart and leave your breathless.

Jan 14 - Feb 7
Set in a wondrously strange, erotic landscape, Wide Awake Hearts is the witty new play by Brendan Gall, writer of hit NBC show Blindspot .

Jan 13 - Feb 7
An evening of 6 New York Premiere one-act plays selected from amongst the more than 400 annual entries to the renowned LaBute New Theater Festival at St. Louis Actors' Studio.

Feb10 - Mar 20
Winner of the 2014 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play and the Inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award (shared with Tony-winner All The Way). The Body of an American tells the true story of an extraordinary friendship as two men, a war photojournalist and playwright, journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul. Winning rave reviews for its previous productions in London and elsewhere, The Body of an American by Guggenheim Fellow Dan O'Brien is "a play that tightens its grip as it probes where war lives, and discovers we each carry it inside ourselves."

Jan 14 - Mar 6
Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's dazzling adaptation of Antigone brings life and breath to Sophocles. First written as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, it stands today as a timely reminder of the conflict between the defense of state security and the protection of basic human rights.