Posted on May 13, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

26th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works Playbill

PlayGround presents Season 28 26th ANNUAL PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS May 9-29, 2022 Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast On-Demand thru June 30 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 […]

Posted on May 4, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

Company in the News May-2022

See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this May! Isabel Anne To is honored to be performing alongside Rosie Hallett in Rachel Bublitz’s FUNNY, LIKE AN ABORTION, directed by Giovanna Sardelli. The play is more relevant than ever, a call to action to fight for Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights. It […]

Posted on April 12, 2022

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26th annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, May 9-29, at Potrero Stage & Simulcast!

PlayGround has announced the full lineup for its 26th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, running May 9-29, returning for in-person performances at Potrero Stage, where the festival has been based since 2008, and, new this year, all simulcast online. A preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, the PlayGround Festival of New Works […]

Posted on April 12, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

Company in the News Apr-2022

See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this April! Rebecca Pingree‘s work will be featured in two different projects on the same day, April 25th! She will be playing Paulina in Jennifer LeBlanc’s Winter’s Passage (as part of the Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival) on 4/25 at 7pm, and her directing work […]

Posted on April 9, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround Festival Staged Readings: A Look at Tomorrow’s Great Plays Today!

PlayGround has announced four bold, new plays that will receive professional developmental workshops and public staged readings live at Potrero Stage and simulcast as part of the 26th annual PlayGround Festival of New Works. The three-week festival (May 9-29) is the culmination and celebration of PlayGround’s yearly programming, cultivating exciting new voices for the American […]

Posted on April 1, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

Join the 2022-23 PlayGround Writers Pool!

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 2022-23 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround […]

Posted on April 1, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

The March People’s Choice Award goes to…

The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Reg Clay for his play This Old Man, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 21st live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Reg! Courtesy of Reg we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]