CHANCE THEATER

Heidi Schreck’s timely, hilarious, and deeply felt play breathes new life into our country’s most important document. Fifteen-year-old Heidi paid her college tuition by speaking ...

ABOUT THE SHOW: NUCLEAR  is a brand-new full-length play, commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club and the Sloan Foundation, following the story of Ray, a rockstar ...

Based on Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking play, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s brilliant rock score and searingly emotional book bring the story of sexual awakening, youth ...

Holly is mad, you might even say angry as hell. But as a 40-something well-established career woman, she can’t just go around screaming, now can ...

In 1834, 16-year-old Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America, sailed into New York Harbor to be featured in a museum. ...

Making a triumphant return to the Chance,  Fancy Nancy  is back for another delightful adventure! Bring the family and watch as Nancy and her friends ...

Tea for Toofi is a madcap farce written and directed by Ravi Kapoor, set in the 1980s Orange County. The story follows a retired computer ...

Chance Theater presents a staged reading of Khanisha Foster's new play, Pyro: How to Blow Up a Life. The story follows Helen, portrayed by Tristan ...

Paul and Marie wake in the morning, Marie makes coffee, black, Paul asks for sugar, Marie says the sugar is out of reach and they ...

Chance Theater presents Tick, Tick… Boom!, a semi-autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson that explores the life of a young composer facing the challenges of turning ...

Get ready to experience the electrifying mind behind  Rent ! Before Jonathan Larson revolutionized Broadway, he was a young man struggling to make his mark. ...

Marina swims in a circle of routine: every week, she goes to her local fish store, buys a catfish, and makes soup. But this week, ...

» A Holiday Musical for the Whole Family Returns! Stay tuned for the announcement of a second holiday musical that is back by popular demand ...

On the Cripe Stage…  Jane Austen’s enduring love story is brought to life as a romantic-comedy musical. The story revolves around Emma, a well-meaning, but ...

On the Cripe Stage… Style. Status. Success. A group of twentysomething editorial assistants are pursuing it all at one of New York’s most esteemed cultural ...

From the writer of last season’s Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious comes a brand new play that is so new that we don’t ...

On the Cripe Stage… In a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s struggling pie shop, Sweeney Todd plots revenge on the lecherous judge who wronged him ...

OTR New Play Staged Reading

On the Cripe Stage… This TYA favorite returns to the Chance for the seventh time. Bring the family and watch as Fancy Nancy and her ...

Staged reading of a new play by 2024 Resident Playwright Dustin H. Chinn

On the Fyda-Mar Stage… Alma and her daughter, Angel, made sixteen wishes long ago: good health, love, carne asada every day, perfect SAT scores, and ...

On the Cripe Stage… Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed (now a Hulu series, starring Kathryn Hahn), Tiny Beautiful Things follows the relationships ...

This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this ...

On the Cripe Stage… This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash that took Broadway by storm tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a ...

This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this ...

What could be fancier than Christmas? Presents with elegant wrapping paper, festive decorations, Christmas cookies with sprinkles – and who could forget the tree? After ...

Based on the popular children’s book of the same name,  The Secret Garden  follows the story of Mary Lennox, a young British girl born and ...

Fifteen-year-old math whiz Christopher Boone lives with his divorced dad in Swinton, a working-class town west of London. After being falsely accused of killing a ...

Long-married couple Paul and Marie are the center of this moving new play about love, aging, selfishness, and selflessness. As Paul’s illness progresses, he can ...

In July of 1903, famed baseball player Edward “Big Ed” Delahanty was found dead at the base of the Niagara Falls gorge. Now, Ed’s widow, ...

College freshmen Lulu and Marianne test their limits as they party through the school year, in search of their place in the world. Marianne, newly ...

“VIVA LA VIE CHANCE” “extraordinarily well-cast” “the characters are all well-lived-in and the troupe’s chemistry shines with love, giving us many compelling moments” “Director Matthew ...

This TYA favorite returns to the Chance for the sixth time. Bring the family and watch as Fancy Nancy and her friends Bree, Rhonda, Wanda, ...

Based on the true story of Abigail Burgess, a young lighthouse keeper’s daughter, living on a rock 25 miles off the coast of Maine, this ...

WORLD PREMIERE! This biting comedy spans centuries, continents, and cultures in its three-part vignette structure. Beginning in 1880s Hanoi, the capital city of French Indochina, ...

Get ready to laugh your Chance off at Stand-Up Tuesdays! Host Mark Christopher Lawrence taps into his extensive list of talented comedian friends and shares ...

This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this ...

When life goes off the rails, we discover what really matters. Chance Theater’s critically-acclaimed California premiere of the bracingly funny, supremely inventive musical journey with ...

It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high school girl, just trying to stay as invisible as possible. But her world comes crashing ...

What could be fancier than Christmas? Presents with elegant wrapping paper, festive decorations, Christmas cookies with sprinkles and who could forget the tree? After all, ...

From the novel that holds a special place in the heart of American literature, comes a new musical that proves this timeless story is still ...

Experience pro wrestling in a whole new light or perhaps for the first time in Kristoffer Diazs Pulitzer Prize-nominated play. Chad Deity follows the life ...

In every artistic context, the imagery of a woman of color in a maids uniform will immediately spark controversy. A Thousand Maids looks at this ...

In every artistic context, the imagery of a woman of color in a maids uniform will immediately spark controversy. A Thousand Maids looks at this ...

We Aint Ever Gonna Break Up: The Hymon & Parfunkel Story is the first jukebox musical about, and featuring the songs of, a band that ...

Slinging razor guitars, thundering drums, and an anti-hero named Johnny. Not the prelude of typical entries in the canon of musical theatre. But these elements ...

Gifted scientist Dr. Mirian Reyes has discovered a method of using mycelium cells to heal damaged brains. So when her radically progressive son, Dagoberto, is ...

This TYA favorite returns to the Chance for the fifth time. Bring the family and watch as Fancy Nancy and her friends Bree, Rhonda, Wanda, ...

Matinicus: A Lighthouse Play is based on the true story of Abigail Burgess, a young lighthouse keepers daughter, living on a rock 25 miles off ...

Dirty diapers, breast pumps and 2 a.m. feedings, are enough to give anyone sleepless nights Not to mention the need for a strong cup of ...

You’re not going to want to miss the staged reading of the updated version of this brand new pulpy riot grrrl musical adaptation of The ...

There’s no place like a  No MSG Added  sketch show where we seek to define the BRAIN, HEART, COURAGE, and HOME of being Asian American. ...

There’s no place like a  No MSG Added  sketch show where we seek to define the BRAIN, HEART, COURAGE, and HOME of being Asian American. ...

See the groundbreaking smash hit musical that won the Pulitzer Prize and three Tony Awards during its acclaimed run on Broadway. With a thrilling contemporary ...

This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this ...

It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high school girl, just trying to stay as invisible as possible. But her world comes crashing ...

Everyones favorite holiday classic comes to life in the all-new stage adaptation! Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the whole Peanuts gang as they ...

Striking 12 is a unique hybrid of riveting musical theater and an electrifying pop-rock concert. It tells the story of a grumpy, overworked New Yorker ...

The Pulitzer Prize Finalist Yellowman makes its Orange County premiere this Fall at Chance Theater. A celebration of language and the human spirit, Yellowman is ...

Zayn, Nola, and Tia are three friends at Kennedy College who are each having trouble moving past the misery and humiliation of their high school ...

Before they wrote Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Dogfight, and many other modern musical classics, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote ...

Professor Leia is befuddled by the task of ushering undergrads into the dramatic principles of playwriting and life lessons simultaneously. When a student brings in ...

Little Women: The Broadway Musical brings the classic coming-of-age novel to the stage, filled with drama, romance, humor and song. Rambunctious Jo, practical Meg, sweet ...

“Sex to change the course of the world…” With this line from a personal ad, marine biology grad student Jules lures journalism student Jo to ...

More than fifty years ago, a show about rival gangs in New York City changed musical theater forever. As powerful and timely today as ever, ...