Posted on December 28, 2023
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5, William Shakespeare What if King Hamlet had discovered his brother’s plans before the treacherous poisoning? Or if Romeo had arrived just a few minutes later to discover Juliet awakening? PlayGround playwrights take us […]
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 5, 2023
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this December! Ben Chau-Chiu is assistant directing A.C.T.’s A Christmas Carol! It’s the last year to see this version of the show. Come see fellow company members Brian Herndon, Khalia Davis, Cindy Goldfield, Howard Swain, and Jomar Tagatac onstage, with Rebecca Ennals in the […]
Posted on November 24, 2023
“You guys give up? Or are you thirsty for more?”- Kevin McCallister, Home Alone (1990) Come celebrate the holidays PlayGround-style at our next round of Monday Night PlayGround, December 18, 7PM PT, live at Freight & Salvage and simulcast online, featuring original short plays inspired by the prompt “Surviving the Holidays”. PlayGround’s sister companies, PlayGround-LA, PlayGround-NY, and PlayGround-Chicago […]
Posted on November 1, 2023
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this November! Catch Jed Parsario in Center Rep’s production of THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE, Dir. by Elizabeth Carter. Nov 4 – 26. Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek. Use the code ONSTAGE for $30 tickets. Ross Peter Nelson will have two works […]
Posted on October 20, 2023
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass” PlayGround welcomes you to join us for the next round of Monday Night PlayGround, presented on Monday, November 20, 7PM PT, live at Potrero Stage and simulcast online. Produced in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO) as part […]
Posted on October 20, 2023
PlayGround marks the holiday season with its second annual “twisted” holiday show: A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS, featuring returning short plays by Jeffrey Lo, Alexis Standridge, and Eteya Trinidad, and three new short plays by Shoshanna Green, Michael B. Kaplan, and J.S. Puller, melding holiday themes and your favorite Hitchcock films, including “Rope”, “Rear Window”, “Lifeboat”, […]
Posted on October 12, 2023
PlayGround has announced the programming lineup for the 5th annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2023 Innovator Incubator Cohort, Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, Native Writers’ Theater, Oakland Public Theater, Network Effects Theater Company, and Poltergeist Theatre Project, along with past incubator companies Kunoichi Productions, Latinx Mafia, and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator […]
Posted on October 1, 2023
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this October! April Ballesteros is serving as the lead Stage Manager for Golden Thread Production’s ReOrient Festival opening October 16th at Potrero Stage! Tickets to the ReOrient Festival available here. April is also appearing in (trans)formada this month at Shotgun Players as part of […]
Posted on September 22, 2023
“A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey, political activist PlayGround blasts into its 30th season of innovative new plays by taking you back to before the beginning! Join us for a new round of Monday Night PlayGround, featuring original short plays all […]