Second Stage

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Second Stage (New York). Dedicated to producing plays of the recent past that did not get the recognition they were due, this company was founded by Carole Rothman in 1979. The goal of producing works ahead of their time or ones that suffered from inadequate original productions allows the company a wide field to choose from. The Second Stage brought attention to such works as Painting Churches (1983), Coastal Disturbances (1987), Reckless (1988), Spoils of War (1988), and The Good Times Are Killing Me (1991), most of which were new to most audiences. The company has also supported emerging playwrights and has presented early, forgotten works by well‐known writers, such as August Wilson's Jitney (2000) and Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night (2000). In recent history the company has premiered new works as well, most memorably The Waverly Gallery and Metamorphoses.

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