Posted on March 6, 2026
CALL FOR PLAYWRIGHTS: PLAYGROUND’S 2026-27 WRITERS POOLS San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago Applications Due April 30, 2026 San Francisco – PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the latest call for applicants to the 2026-27 Writers Pools in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. […]
Posted on March 6, 2026
PlayGround presents Season 32 2026 Comedy Fest March 6th – March 29th, 2026 Live at Potrero Stage + 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 of the San […]
Posted on March 5, 2026
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Daniel Martinez, Jr. for his play, Not that Kind of Monster, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 2, 2026 live at Potrero Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Daniel! Courtesy of Daniel, we’re pleased to share the first […]
Posted on March 3, 2026
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this March including: MICHAEL BARRETT AUSTIN, MELINA COHEN-BRAMWELL, CAROLYN DOYLE, EIKO MOON-YAMAMOTO, LISA MOORE, EVELYN JEAN PINE, CATHLEEN RIDDLEY. KATJA RIVERA, MIYOKO SAKATANI, AMY SASS and KEN SONKIN! MIYOKO SAKATANI will performing with her creative partner Loic Pichot in “Culturally Distressed Live” on March 27-29th […]
Posted on February 27, 2026
PlayGround presents Season 32 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Bedtime Stories” March 2nd, 2026 7pm PT David Brower Center & Simulcast 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 of the San Francisco Peninsula […]
Posted on February 12, 2026
(SAN FRANCISCO) – Applications are now being accepted for PlayGround’s fifth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, July 31-August 23, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival will feature up to 20 productions and 60 performances by talented theatre artists from across the country including PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area, Los […]
Posted on February 3, 2026
Carolyn Doyle will be performing her solo show Good Grief: Tales From a Persistent Blockhead at the PlayGround Solo Fest. January 26-February 8, 2026. Miyoko Sakatani will be performing her one woman show about a courageous Japanese American woman who has been often overlooked while the men who resisted the same fight with wartime cases […]
Posted on January 30, 2026
The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Stan Stone for his play, Bridges of San Francisco County, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on January 19, 2026 live at the David Brower Center and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Stan! Courtesy of Stan, we’re pleased to share the […]
Posted on January 30, 2026
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.” – Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon (illustrations by Clement Hurd) The topic for the March 2 Monday Night PlayGround-SF has been announced: BEDTIME STORIES. Playwrights in the PlayGround-SF Writers Pool have been invited to generate an original short play intended for young audiences (Theatre for Young Audiences, TYA) […]
Posted on January 19, 2026
PlayGround presents Season 32 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Tales of the City” January 19th, 2026 7pm PT David Brower Center & Simulcast 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 of the San […]