Book by Jonathan Sheffer

Music & Lyrics by Jonathan Sheffer & Bruce Roberts

Directed by Jerry Mitchell

DIRTY LITTLE SECRET

A New Musical

Harvard University, 1920. Beneath the ivy and ideals, a hidden world pulses with life.

When Cyril Wilcox returns to campus, he is drawn back into a dazzling underground of jazz-soaked parties, coded glances, and stolen moments of freedom. In the shadow of one of America’s most powerful institutions, a group of young men has carved out a place to be themselves.

But someone is watching.

When the university launches a secret tribunal to root out “deviants,” interrogations begin. Loyalties fracture. Fear spreads. Futures collapse. One by one, the students are forced to choose: protect themselves or protect each other.

Driven by a propulsive jazz score and the intoxicating and joyous rush of first love, Dirty Little Secret resurrects a chapter of American history long erased and delivers a message that still resonates today: anyone who others someone else is unacceptable.

Who gets to belong? Who is punished for being seen? And what does it cost to tell the truth?

Meet the Creative Team

  • Jonathan Sheffer

    Book and Music

  • Bruce Roberts

    Music and Lyrics

  • Jerry Mitchell

    Director