Posted on January 31, 2023
AfroSolo Theatre Company, a sanctuary for Black art, culture, intellect, and entertainment, announces their latest partnership with playwright incubator PlayGround as part of PlayGround’s sixth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 27 to February 12 presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast […]
Posted on January 27, 2023
PlayGround presents The 6th Annual PLAYGROUND SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL January 27 – February 12, 2023 7pm PT Potrero Stage & Online 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 […]
Posted on December 16, 2022
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Now accepting applications through January 23! PlayGround is excited to announce two (2) immediate openings for the 2023 Producing Fellowships, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for Bay Area individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing […]
Posted on December 7, 2022
“Bah,” said Scrooge, “Humbug.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Playwright incubator PlayGround has announced the prompt for the third Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 29th season. Thirty-six San Francisco Bay Area writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt “HOLIDAY SPIRIT” as they vie for one of […]
Posted on November 29, 2022
Dear Friends, In the last year, PlayGround has triumphantly returned to in-person performances in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, all while growing our community with the second year of PlayGround New York, and our newest expansion to Chicago in September. Because we are a proud artistic home for so many, this year we reached […]
Posted on October 26, 2022
Monday Night PlayGround is all about potential: the potential of new writers for the stage, finding inspiration in a prompt, writing a short play, and then seeing that short play performed for the first time, live before other theatre makers and theatre-goers. The potential of new stories — comedic, dramatic and those that defy a […]
Posted on October 22, 2022
“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.” – William Shakespeare Playwright incubator PlayGround has announced the prompt for the second Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 29th season. Thirty-six San Francisco Bay Area writers have just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts […]
Posted on October 21, 2022
PlayGround marks the holiday season with a brand-new “twisted” holiday show, “A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS,” featuring new short plays by Jeffrey Lo, Marissa Skudlarek, Cleavon Smith, Alexis Standridge, Eteya Trinidad, and Maury Zeff, melding holiday themes and your favorite Hitchcock thrillers, including “Vertigo”, “Rear Window”, “Notorious”, “North by Northwest”, “Strangers on a Train”, and “Rebecca”! […]
Posted on October 1, 2022
PlayGround is pleased to announce a significant new opportunity for Bay Area producers of new plays! The PlayGround Re-Play Festival is a four-week new works festival (February 13-March 12, 2023) at Potrero Stage and simulcast, providing a platform for the San Francisco premiere of new plays that were originally produced elsewhere in the Bay Area. […]
Posted on September 30, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this October! PlayGround IN2 company Analog Theatre (co-led by Rebecca Pingree and Elissa Beth Stebbins) will close their 2022 season with a Halloween Mask Monday! Come join the mayhem at Standard Deviant Brewing in SF for award-winning beer and promisingly-unfinished physical theatre. Featuring a bevy […]