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How does an almost average family navigate today’s over-stimulated and over-medicated world? In this darkly funny and haunting new musical, one suburban household confronts its past and its future. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score, Next to Normal explores how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their world intact.

Next to Normal is supported in part by the National Endowment of the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.

For generations, Saint Joseph’s Prep, an all-boys Catholic school in Washington, D.C., has taken privileged young men and shaped them into “good boys and true." In the late 1980’s, a scandal rocks the school, drawing in a mother and her son — the school’s star football player — forcing each to judge the difference between teenage irresponsibility and what might be a deeper, more unsettling lapse of character.

Good Boys and True is supported in part by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.

A group of partying American college students and their idealistic professors embark on a literary tour of England. With a crammed itinerary and barely enough time to digest the sites, the students’ behavior devolves from appreciative to appalling while the professors confront the emptiness beyond their idealism in this comedy about what it means to make choices and stick with them.

Some Americans Abroad is supported in part by American Express and The Axe Houghton Foundation.

In this darkly funny play, Len, a legendary but disillusioned music producer, has retreated to a cabin in the woods, comforted by his mountains of records. When his estranged son and an ambitious but self-destructive pop star arrive on his doorstep, Len finds himself caught between their dreams and his own demons lurking in the woods.

All performances take place at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Broadway @ 76th Street.

When a world renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage prodigy and his school teacher, she finds that life and love can’t be neatly arranged in this drama about finding the perfect fold. 

Animals Out of Paper was commissioned through the Time Warner Commissioning Program at Second Stage and is the first play to be produced through the program.

All performances take place at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Broadway @ 76th Street.