Studio Productions
Test Pilots
Welcome to the Test Pilots TV Studio, where YOU help us make High-Quality Programming that's sure to satisfy a Mainstream Audience! Use our patent-pending RemCon1000 to change the show's trajectory from the comfort of your seat — or if you've got "it," we may just need to cast you in the show.
Enormous Things: The Musical
A musical following Claes Oldenburg, real-life sculptor of enormous things, and why he makes them. (It's cause he's in love with a giant!)
Alaï y Las Marionetas
Live music, puppet theater & ceremony woven into one. Alaï and her string band conjure sound from which songs emerge and dissolve, while puppets and performers move through the audience.
The Mysteries of Persephone
No one has practiced the Mysteries of Persephone in over 1500 years and the old gods are beyond upset. Help save the world from their wrath and disappointment by journeying into the underworld to rescue the beautiful goddess from the lair of Hades. Gaze into the mystery and see what gazes back.
Weird Al is gonna die!
Who is going to be The Next King of Parody Music when Weird Al Yankovic ultimately passes? Find out in this sing-a-long parody music competition show!
Baby Man
Forget The Odyssey, The Bible, and even Soggy old Gilgamesh. The story that started it all was BABY MAN. With each performance, danthony retells this classic folk tale, folding in YOUR stories and enlisting YOUR help to craft a unique-to-each-audience musical-comedy folk masterpiece for the ages.
Mod's Medical Miracles
Allow doctors Maude, Mod and Odd to welcome you into the operating theatre, where walk-in patients and watchers are always welcome. Pulling from the worlds of Bouffon, puppetry, and Grand Guignol, the doctors will surely soothe all your psychic and physical ailments, if you let them.
Ricki Lantana
Ricki Lantana is the intergalactic disco f*ggot from Europe. In order to save humanity, he must make disco music even gayer.
9/11 Preludes: Act I
The first act from a new series of operatic dramas that bring to life a collection of key events in the lead-up to 9/11, fully sung to an enthralling pop-orchestral score.
Squaller Holler Municipal Chorus
A magical little junkyard you stumble upon while getting lost in between shows. The odd flickering static from old TVs and the majestic sound of 12 people singing Britney with an air of unprofessionalism calls to you like a crying dove. Could this be heaven? It's also the place you stumble back to after last call, wondering how these lunatics are still going.
10 Prop(ertie)s
10 sellable dwellings await! From fixer uppers to fixer downers, the audience will take tours of the openest houses in whatever order they pick. Prop(ertie)s are great investments, and these pieces of unreal estate are priced to move, float, and fly! From hovel to blimp, these spaces are the shrimp!
The Electric Cheetah Cabaret Soirée
The Electric Cheetah Cabaret Soirée is a recurring underground variety spectacle in Los Angeles where puppetry, clown, cabaret, live music, and experimental comedy collide.
Second Place is where
the most interesting
things happen
Second Place Studios is a pop-up immersive theatre venue produced by Mirth Arts Foundation, operating at 6560 Hollywood Blvd during the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival. For the month of June, this will be a curated home for 12+ original productions by an intentionally selected cohort of artists.
