Season

• Spring Awakening

  Based on Frank Wedekind's groundbreaking 19th-century play, Spring Awakening: The Musical garnered rave reviews, standing ovations from sold-out audiences,...

  

• Lizzie

  Using a searing rock score, and based on the historical record, LIZZIE explores the heady and heated days leading up to the murder and Lizzie’s controversial acquittal of all charges, and the creation of a new American myth.

   

  

• Small Mouth Sounds

  Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds is a funny, tender, and wonderfully unconventional comedy about loneliness, longing, and what happens when we stop talking—and start listening.

  

• One-Shot

  Set in 1999, ONE-SHOT follows film-obsessed best friends David and Martín, competitors for a scholarship to NYU that could change their lives. This timely play presents a candid, gripping look at queer identity, race, visibility, and who gets to tell our stories.

  

• Pretend It's Pretend

  Direct from New York’s Lincoln Center, Emma Watkins’ tender, funny, and deeply moving play PRETEND IT’S PRETEND makes its West Coast premiere at OCT. This striking new play explores teachers who memorize every name, the fathers who mistake protection for love, and the students carrying more than their share.

  

• The Bed Trick

  Inspired by one of Shakespeare’s most outrageous plot devices, Keiko Green’s The Bed Trick is a wildly funny, sharply contemporary comedy about sex, friendship, consent, and the lies we tell ourselves—and each other—in the name of love.