Past productions

2024/25

• Mexodus
• W. Kamau Bell Gets His Act Together

2023/24

• POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
• Bulrusher
• Harry Clarke
• Cult of Love
• The Far Country
• Galileo
• Mother Road
• Just for Us
• W. Kamau Bell Gets His Act Together
• The Best of The Second City

2022/23

• Wuthering Heights
• Clyde’s
• Cambodian Rock Band
• English
• Let the Right One In
• Out of Character
• Jerrod Carmichael: Ari told me I lack focus
• Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski

2021/22

• Wintertime
• Swept Away
• Octet
• Dana H.
• Sanctuary City
• Goddess
• the ripple, the wave that carried me home
• Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool
• Fran Lebowitz

2021

• Romantics Anonymous
• It Can’t Happen Here
• A Paris Love Story
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier
• Place/Settings: Berkeley
• The Waves in Quarantine

2019/20

• The Great Wave
• White Noise
• Becky Nurse of Salem
• Culture Clash (Still) in America
• School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
• PigPen Theatre Co.’s The Tale of Despereaux
• Gatz
• Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin
• Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone

2018/19

• A Doll’s House, Part 2
• Fairview
• Paradise Square: A New Musical
• Metamorphoses
• HOME
• The Good Book
• Kiss My Aztec!
• Pike St.
• The Second City’s Left Leaning and Always Right

2017/18

• Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations
• Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit
• Watch on the Rhine
• Office Hour
• Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
• What the Constitution Means to Me
• The Second City’s Dysfunctional Holiday Revue
• Fran Lebowitz in Conversation

2016/17

• It Can’t Happen Here
• The Last Tiger in Haiti
• 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
• Hand to God
• Roe
• Monsoon Wedding
• An Octoroon
• The Madwoman in the Volvo
• Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin
• Mike Birbiglia: The New One

2015/16

• Amélie, A New Musical
• The Hypocrites’ Pirates of Penzance
• Disgraced
• Aubergine
• Macbeth
• Treasure Island
• For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday
• John Leguizamo: Latin History for Morons
• Sell/Buy/Date

2014/15

• An Audience with Meow Meow
• Party People
• Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
• X’s and O’s (A Football Love Story)
• Tartuffe
• Head of Passes
• One Man, Two Guvnors
• The Pianist of Willesden Lane
• Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter

2013/14

• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
• The Pianist of Willesden Lane
• Tristan & Yseult
• The House that will not Stand
• Accidental Death of an Anarchist
• Tribes
• The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
• No Man’s Land
• Man in a Case
• Not a Genuine Black Man
• Hershey Felder as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro
• Monsieur Chopin

2012/13

• Chinglish
• An Iliad
• The White Snake
• Troublemaker, or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright
• Fallaci
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Dear Elizabeth
• The Wild Bride
• George Gershwin Alone

2011/12

• Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup
• How to Write a New Book for the Bible
• The Wild Bride
• Ghost Light
• A Doctor in Spite of Himself
• Red
• Black n Blue Boys / Broken Men
• In Paris
• Emotional Creature

2010/11

• Compulsion
• The Great Game: Afghanistan
• Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead
• The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs / The Last Cargo Cult
• Ruined
• Three Sisters
• Let Me Down Easy
• The Arabian Nights

2009/10

• American Idiot
• Tiny Kushner
• Aurélia’s Oratorio
• Coming Home
• Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
• Girlfriend
• In the Wake
• Klass Klown
• An Evening with David Sedaris
• The Real Americans / Tings Dey Happen
• Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again

2008/09

• Yellowjackets
• Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
• The Arabian Nights
• In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
• Crime and Punishment
• The Lieutenant of Inishmore
• You, Nero
• Wishful Drinking

2007/08

• Heartbreak House
• after the quake
• Argonautika
• Taking Over
• Wishful Drinking
• TRAGEDY: a tragedy
• Figaro
• No Child…

2006/07

• Mother Courage
• Passing Strange
• all wear bowlers
• The Pillowman
• To the Lighthouse
• Blue Door
• Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
• Great Men of Genius
• Citizen Josh

2005/06

• Our Town
• Finn in the Underworld
• Comedy on the Bridge & Brundibar
• 9 Parts of Desire
• Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell
• The Glass Menagerie
• The Miser

2004/05

• The Secret in the Wings
• Eurydice
• Polk County
• Fêtes de la Nuit
• For Better or Worse
• The People’s Temple
• Honour

2003/04

• The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
• Continental Divide: Mothers Against and Daughters of the Revolution
• Yellowman
• Ghosts
• The Mystery of Irma Vep
• Master Class
• True Mysteries Presents: Code Blue at the Genome Zoo

2002/03

• The House of Blue Leaves
• Menocchio
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories
• Suddenly Last Summer
• Fräulein Else
• Surface Transit
• The Guys
• Seesaw

2001/02

• 36 Views
• Nocturne
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Rhinoceros
• Culture Clash in AmeriCCa
• Homebody/Kabul
• Cloud Nine
• Persimmony Jones

2000/01

• The Green Bird
• Dinner With Friends
• Fall
• The Oresteia
• Big Love
• The Laramie Project
• Sundiata

1999/2000

• The Life of Galileo
• Beauty Queen of Leenane
• Metamorphoses
• Civil Sex
• The Alchemist
• Let My Enemy Live Long
• Closer
• Rhubarb Jam

1998/99

• Hydriotaphia
• Antony & Cleopatra
• Collected Stories
• Peter and Wendy
• Ravenshead
• The Magic Fire
• The First 100 Years
• The Queen of the Sea 

1997/98

• Pentecost
• The Heiress
• How I Learned to Drive
• The Birds
• Skylight
• Evolution of a Homeboy: Jails, Hospitals & Hip Hop
• Valley Song
• Alicia in Wonder Tierra 

1996/97

• Heartbreak House
• Love! Valour! Compassion!
• Journey to the West
• Cloud Tectonics
• Macbeth
• An Almost Holy Picture
• Having Our Say
• According to Coyote 

1995/96

• The Beaux’ Stratagem
• Ballad of Yachiyo
• Changes of Heart
• Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
• Slavs!
• Missing Persons
• Hurricane/Mauvais Temps
• The Yellow Boat 

1994/95

• Don Juan Giovanni
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Geni(us)
• A Moon for the Misbegotten
• An Ideal Husband
• Last of the Suns
• Step on a Crack

1993/94

• Dancing at Lughnasa
• Endgame/Act Without Words
• The Triumph of Love
• Sight Unseen
• The Woman Warrior
• Fires in the Mirror
• Airport Music
• Wolf Child: The Correction of Joseph
• Soundshape II: For Ceramics, Water, and Paper 

1992/93

• Speed-the-Plow
• Mad Forest
• Volpone
• The Lady from the Sea
• Private Lives
• Dragonwings
• Mother Jones
• According to Coyote 

1991/92

• Major Barbara
• Spunk
• McTeague, A Tale of San Francisco
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Woody Guthrie’s American Song
• The Convict’s Return
• Dream of a Common Language
• Dragonwings
• According to Coyote 

1990/91

• Fuente Ovejuna
• Life During Wartime
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Our Country’s Good
• The Illusion
• Fish Head Soup
• Vid
• The Yo, Frankie! Show 

1989/90

• Lulu
• Reckless
• The Winter’s Tale
• The Speed of Darkness
• Man and Superman
• Born in the R.S.A.
• The Virgin Molly
• Each Day Dies with Sleep
• Step on a Crack

1988/89

• Hedda Gabler
• Prelude to a Kiss
• Waiting for Godot
• The Misanthrope
• A View from the Bridge
• Serious Money
• The Stick Wife
• In Perpetuity throughout the Universe
• Noodle Doodle Box
• Takunda 

1987/88

• Ah, Wilderness!
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night
• The Rivals
• The Road to Mecca
• What the Butler Saw
• The Tale of Lear
• The Hairy Ape
• Yankee Dawg You Die
• Sophiatown
• The Red Rose
• The Flying Doctor 

1986/87

• The Revenger
• The Night of the Iguana
• Servant of Two Masters
• The Birthday Party
• Blue Window
• The Good Person of Szechuan
• Hard Times
• Painting It Red
• Clytemnestra
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 

1985/86

• The Playboy of the Western World
• In the Belly of the Beast
• The Art of Dining
• The Sea
• The Diary of a Scoundrel
• Twelfth Night
• The Normal Heart
• Asinamali!
• Open Admissions 

1984/85

• A Touch of the Poet
• Otherwise Engaged
• Tartuffe
• Kingdom Come
• Misalliance
• The Tooth of Crime
• Execution of Justice

1983/84

• American Buffalo
• The Way of the World
• Season’s Greetings
• Awake & Sing!
• Filumena
• The Margaret Ghost
• Kabuki Medea
• Woza Albert!

1982/83

• Happy End
• Chekhov in Yalta
• The Glass Menagerie
• The Show-Off
• Beyond Therapy
• A Lesson From Aloes
• U.S.A.
• Too True to be Good
• Geoff Hoyle Meets Keith Terry

1981/82

• The Cherry Orchard
• The Belle of Amherst
• As You Like It
• Savages
• After the Fall
• Heartbreak House
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Tonight at 8:30

1980/81

• Galileo
• Fallen Angels
• My Heart’s in the Highlands
• Pygmalion
• Measure for Measure
• The Shadow Box
• A Life in the Theatre
• The Norman Conquests

1979/80

• A Delicate Balance
• Children of Darkness
• Waltz of the Toreadors
• Hedda Gabler
• What the Butler Saw

1978/79

• The Skin of Our Teeth
• She Stoops to Conquer
• The Tavern
• He Who Gets Slapped
• Last of the Marx Brothers Writers
• Room Service

1977/78

• A Flea in Her Ear
• Rep!
• Major Barbara
• Mad Oscar
• Servant of Two Masters
• A Moon for the Misbegotten
• Wait Until Dark
• Arms and the Man
• As You Like It
• They Knew What They Wanted
• Misalliance

1976/77

• Candida
• Bus Stop
• Twelfth Night
• The Philanthropist
• Mann Ist Mann
• The Country Wife
• Private Lives
• Our Town

1975/76

• Seven Keys to Baldpate
• The Iceman Cometh
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Of Mice and Men
• Yankee Doodle, A Myth with Music
• Rope
• The Importance of Being Earnest

1974/75

• Blithe Spirit
• The Little Foxes
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Devil’s Disciple
• Continental Divide
• Uncle Vanya
• The Hostage
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Hamlet
• The Merchant of Venice

1973/74

• Charley’s Aunt
• Heartbreak House
• The Master Builder
• The Petrified Forest
• The Misanthrope
• Dracula, A Musical Nightmare
• The Front Page
• London Assurance
• Born Yesterday

1972/73

• Father’s Day
• Crime on Goat Island
• The Haunted House
• The Dance of Death
• Subject to Fits
• Loot
• The Sea Gull
• The School for Scandal
• Arms and the Man
• The Comedy of Errors

1971/72

• The Alchemist
• Angel Street
• Julius Caesar
• Who’s Happy Now?
• Love’s Labours Lost
• For Promised Joy
• The Imaginary Invalid
• She Stoops to Conquer

1970/71

• The Plough and the Stars
• Too True to be Good
• Antigone
• The Wild Duck
• Idiot’s Delight
• The Devils
• The Fantasticks

1969/70

• The Duchess of Malfi
• The Miser
• The Playboy of the Western World
• Hay Fever
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Twelfth Night

1968/69

• Woyzeck
• The Adventures of Scapin
• The Sport of My Mad Mother
• The Hostage
• Three One Acts: Huey; Krapp’s Last Tape; Pigeon, Pigeon
• The Deer Park
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Electra
• The Time of Your Life
• Camino Real