Posted on April 18, 2024
The full lineup for PlayGround’s 28th annual Festival of New Works, a preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, has been announced! This year’s festival, all performed live at Potrero Stage and simulcast, will feature premiere presentations of Anne Yumi Kobori’s Apertures of Love in Times of War and Jacob Marx Rice’s A […]
Posted on April 15, 2024
PlayGround Festival: Kick-Off & Playwrights Panel Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 7:00 PM PDT – Potrero Stage Admission is free, Reserve your ticket here Hear from seven of the playwrights featured in this year’s Festival of New Works! Join Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann in conversation with PlayGround playwright alumni Robyn Brooks, Anne Yumi Kobori, Matthew […]
Posted on April 11, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO – The lineup has been announced for PlayGround’s 28th annual Festival of New Works Staged Readings: Rivals of Mars by Bridgette Dutta Portman (Friday, May 10), Work/Shoot by Matthew Y. Morishige (Monday, May 13), The Passing Storm by Jessica June Rowe (Friday, May 17), and Crazy Jezebels by Bailey Jordan Garcia (Monday, May […]
Posted on April 4, 2024
PlayGround is part of an amazing community of artists—playwrights, directors, actors, designers—and audiences who come to support the very best that Bay Area theatre has to offer. The 28th annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, May 7-26, 2024 in-person at Potrero Stage and simulcast, is a celebration of all that PlayGround artists have accomplished over […]
Posted on April 1, 2024
Are you a Bay Area-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround is seeking applications for our 2024-25 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround […]
Posted on March 29, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this April! April Ballesteros will be Assistant Stage Managing the World Premiere of Sign My Name To Freedom written by Michael Gene Sullivan and directed by Elizabeth Carter at ZSpace. Presented by San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company. Runs March 29, 2024 to April […]
Posted on March 25, 2024
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected plays and playwrights for our annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND(SF) ’24, including first-time festival writers Robyn Brooks, Kimberly Ridgeway, Louel Señores, Stan Stone and Lisa Gaye Thompson, and returning “Best of” playwright Justin P. Lopez. For two nights only, PlayGround will celebrate these artists and their […]
Posted on March 22, 2024
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Stan Stone for his play Freedom, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 18th live at Freight and Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Stan! Courtesy of Stan, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning […]
Posted on March 19, 2024
Casting has been announced for PlayGround’s 28th annual Festival of New Works Premieres: Anne Yumi Kobori’s Apertures of Love in Times of War (May 11-12, 2024) and Jacob Marx Rice’s A Thousand Natural Shocks (May 18-19, 2024). These works, one historical and the other contemporary but both steeped in the fraught ideal of the “American Dream”, […]
Posted on March 18, 2024
PlayGround presents Season 30 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “RECLAIMING HERSTORY” March 18th, 2024 7pm PT Live at Freight & Salvage + Simulcast & On-Demand Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit PlayGround acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush (RAH-my-toosh) Ohlone (oh-LOW-nee) and Lisjan (lih-SHAH-n) Ohlone, the original inhabitants […]