Posted on January 27, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this February! Barbara Anderson‘s The Tree had a successful run in NYC and opened at Santa Cruz Actors Theatre.. will run for next three weeks. Learn more here. Michael Barrett Austin will be playing the central character of Daniel Cavanaugh in SF Playhouse’s spring production […]
Posted on January 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this January! Cindy Goldfield just finished her 17th season of A CHRISTMAS CAOL at ACT, and is in rehearsal for IN EVERY GENERATION (January 19-Feb 12) at TheatreWorks. Learn more here. Ross Valley Players’ RAW series (Ross Alternative Works) will present a reading of Ruth […]
Posted on December 9, 2022
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this December! Lizzie Calogero is currently working on a workshop production of Red Carol, Michael Gene Sullivan’s adaptation of the Dickens A Christmas Carol. A co-production with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and Cutting Ball Theater, this workshop includes some limited presentations throughout the month […]
Posted on November 4, 2022
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this November! Kristy Lin Billuni‘s play, “A Distinct Gay Vibe” will appear November 17 & 18 at the Eagle NYC in National Queer Theatre’s Kinky Pint Sized Plays, a night of short new plays set in a leather bar with enough booze, kink, and theatrics […]
Posted on October 28, 2022
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Maury Zeff for his play The Extraordinary, Ordinary Ones, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on October 10th live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Maury! Courtesy of Maury we’re pleased to share the first two […]
Posted on September 18, 2022
Welcome to the 2022 One PlayGround Gala! This year’s gala celebrates the national scope of PlayGround’s programming in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and, beginning this Fall, Chicago. With the addition of PlayGround-Chicago, Monday Night PlayGround—the signature short play program which has run successfully in the Bay Area for almost 30 years—will […]
Posted on August 12, 2022
PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has announced its 29th season, including the return of the celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series on third Mondays,* October – March, in-person this year at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage and live simulcast (October 10, 2022-March 20, 2023). The season also includes an extensive array […]
Posted on May 6, 2022
PlayGround has announced the winners of this year’s Young Playwrights Contest. The venerated playwright incubator will debut the four selected short plays from rising Bay Area young playwrights on Friday, May 13, 2022 at 7PM PDT as part of the 26th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works. The four finalists — “Moon Eater” by Christopher […]
Posted on March 4, 2022
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Lisa Gaye Thompson for her play Three Centimeters Per Second, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 21st live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Lisa! Courtesy of Lisa we’re pleased to share the first […]
Posted on January 28, 2022
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love. No not just for some, but for everyone.” – Songwriters: Hal David, Burt Bacharach. Original Recording Artist: Jackie DeShannon. PlayGround has announced the topic for its next […]