World Premiere

Star-Cross'd is a movement-oriented retelling of Shakespeare's most tragic love story: Romeo and Juliet. The Half-Shadow Players marry the haunting music of Florence + the Machine with the Bard's immortal text for a raw, visually stunning spin on the classic tale.

Franklin is a struggling young writer who can't seem to get his novel published - so he tries submitting it as a memoir instead. When the head of a major publishing company wants to meet the author, Franklin’s forced to hire an actor to play his alter ego… an 89-year-old survivor of The Holocaust.

In an inpatient stay at a mental institution, Carla Waters undergoes therapy for a recent loss. Carla struggles to understand herself and others, and discern what’s real or not. A presentation of USC’s premier student group, Brand New Theatre, this is an experimental play by Molly Sharpe.

A collection of one act plays that satirize the history of entertainment from Shakespeare's experiments with language to David Mamet's searing, triumphant final piece of modern noir.

Seven female playwrights wildly speculate about Taylor Swift’s sex life through the mouths of her seven boyfriends – Joe, John, Taylor, Cory, Jake, Harry, and that Kennedy kid. Acclaimed LA actor, Thaddeus Shafer, plays all seven in a story of love, innocence, power, and douchebags.

In a Mental Health Hospital, where most of the patients believe themselves to be Fairy Tale characters, two patients mysteriously vanish without a trace. A full investigation is put into play and the other patients, doctors and orderlies are questioned.

I’m taking you back to the night I couldn’t get home, the night I walked for hours and got nowhere even with help from my comatose mother, a homeless woman, and a few angels… the night Mom’s story ends and this one begins. Given one last chance, what would you say?

A dark, surreal comedy inspired by the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot.

When a man discovers the infidelity of his girlfriend, his plan for retaliation takes an unexpected turn.