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 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 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 8, 2024
Missed a Monday Night PlayGround? We got you! Announcing MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND LIVE, a special in-person screening at Potrero Stage of the entire 30th season of Monday Night PlayGround, offered over two Saturdays, at 6pm, 7:30pm, and 9pm on March 23 and 30. Join fellow PlayGround lovers for performances originally performed for a live audience at […]
Posted on March 8, 2024
PlayGround is offering a free one-day intensive workshop for Bay Area residents (18 and up) interested in entering the field of theatre tech and design. Led by PlayGround resident designer Brittany Mellerson, the workshop will be offered at PlayGround’s home theatre, Potrero Stage, on Saturday, March 23, 12pm-5pm PT, and repeated on Saturday, March 30, […]
Posted on February 28, 2024
PlayGround has announced the 6th annual cohort for the Innovator Incubator program. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative theatre companies and productions with a strong commitment to historically marginalized or excluded communities. The multi-year intensive incubation program provides access and opportunity for emerging theatre companies, by offering financial support, fiscal […]
Posted on February 9, 2024
Don’t miss your chance to be part of PlayGround’s third annual Free-Play Festival! Applications are due by April 30, 2024. The Free-Play Festival is a three-week non-curated fringe-style platform to highlight new works from the national PlayGround community and beyond, offering each artist team three public performances in our state-of-the-art San Francisco theatre, Potrero Stage, […]
Posted on December 26, 2023
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its seventh annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 26-February 11, 2024 (Fri-Sun at 7pm PT), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work features 8 double-bill performances by eight California […]
Posted on December 8, 2023
PlayGround presents Season 30 A Very Hitchcock Christmas December 10 & 16-17 2023 7pm PT 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 […]
Posted on November 28, 2023
PlayGround has had a busy year. With Monday Night PlayGround programs running in-person and streaming online in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, we are supporting 400+ writers, directors, actors and stage managers across the country as they create over 140 bold new works for the stage in a supportive community of […]