Posted on August 11, 2020
To close out its historic 25th Anniversary Season and following the success of PlayGround Zoom Fest: the Bay Area’s largest online festival of streaming theater to date, PlayGround will host a live-streamed virtual gala and celebration on Monday evening, September 21. This Gala comes during a time of unprecedented and far delayed focus on prioritizing […]
Posted on August 6, 2020
On June 8, more than 300 theatre-makers contributed to the testimonial, “Dear White American Theater”, to call out the systemic racism and anti-Blackness of the American Theater. On June 9, a Bay Area regional contribution to the dialogue was launched with the activation of the “Living Document: POC Experiences in Bay Area Theater Co.”, which […]
Posted on August 6, 2020
PlayGround, the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, is now looking for the next generation of great directors. PlayGround will select 3-4 aspiring and/or early-career directors to apprentice with PlayGround during the upcoming Monday Night PlayGround season, kicking off October 19 via Zoom live stream, and continuing online through March 15, 2021. Directing Apprentices will each […]
Posted on August 5, 2020
Read on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news, current happenings, and upcoming events! Jonathan Luskin’s play, PERFECT, has been selected for the Catalyst 2020 Festival at UC Davis. JanLee Marshall, artistic director of Oakland’s B8 Theatre Company, will direct a developmental workshop collaborating with University students, alumni, and staff. The […]
Posted on July 6, 2020
Read on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news, current happenings, and upcoming events! Same Boat Theater Collective, the Bay Area’s first environmental justice theater company and a participant in the inaugural PlayGround Innovator Incubator, presents their debut production, the world premiere of THE EMERYVILLE HORROR: A TALE OF ENVIRONMENTAL VENGEANCE […]
Posted on July 3, 2020
Are you missing live theatre?? PlayGround Zoom Fest, the nation’s largest fully-digital new play festival (originally presented via Zoom live-stream May 11-June 19), is now available on-demand through September 1! The Zoom Fest features readings and premiere presentations of more than 25 short and full-length plays as well as a Zoom Town Hall on PlayGround […]
Posted on June 12, 2020
Monday Night PlayGround has been a core of PlayGround’s playwright development program since the company’s inception. The process of writing a play is unique to every playwright, but in order to refine that process, repetition is essential. Practicing the format of a short play forces a playwright to essentialize their style and eschew distractions from […]
Posted on June 11, 2020
In the American Theatre, we have long been guided by the principle that we can “change the world, one play at a time.” What if it was also one day at a time with the same play? On Friday, Juneteenth, (June 19th), theatre communities around the country provided their response to the current moment – […]
Posted on June 5, 2020
One of PlayGround’s core mission tenants is to produce art that is relevant to and reflects the world around it. From the topics that we choose for our Monday Night PlayGround series, to prioritizing and maintaining diversity in our writers group and production teams, PlayGround believes that theatre is a vital catalyst for activism and […]
Posted on June 4, 2020
In light of curfew orders throughout the Bay Area, PlayGround has moved the showtime of its Saturday, June 6 opening night performance of Genevieve Jessee’s The Rendering Cycle to 5pm PT. The change in time will allow the artists and crew participating in the show from out-of-home locations to comply with local curfews currently in […]