Posted on May 1, 2025
Welcome to the first of a series of “interviews” with the playwrights featured in the 2025 Festival! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). This should be fun […]
Posted on May 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this May! Ben Chau-Chiu steps into the role of DHH in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face at Shotgun Players. The show opens May 10 with pay-what-you-can previews and runs through June 8. Don’t miss this timely and provocative exploration of identity and representation. Purchase […]
Posted on April 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this April! Nancy Carlin directs the world premiere of Buttercup by J.D. Murphy, inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif. This new work runs April 3-13 in San Rafael, featuring Lizzie Calogero as Sister Walter of the Lamentable Poor and Norman Gee as […]
Posted on March 21, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(SF) ‘25. Originally developed among thirty-six new short plays through PlayGround’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, these plays will receive a two-night encore performance on May 24 & 25, 2025 at 7pm PT at Potrero […]
Posted on March 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this March! 3Girls Theatre’s 2025 New Works Festival celebrates fresh new plays by women+ playwrights whose work has been in development through 3GT’s Reading Series. The festival runs from March 7–16 at KALW, 220 Montgomery Street, SF, with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at […]
Posted on February 20, 2025
JUST ANNOUNCED: APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2025 FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL PlayGround will close out the summer season with the fourth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival is open to artists from across the country who want to bring their show to San Francisco! PRODUCERS: SUBMIT HERE BY MARCH 24, 2025 Please use […]
Posted on February 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this February! Kristy Lin Billuni’s eco-homo-erotic musical, The Trees, will have two concert readings: March 5 and 9. Join us for a free community concert reading, Wednesday, 3/5/25, 7pm, Eagle SF. Get your tickets for a concert reading in 3Girls New Works Festival, KALW […]
Posted on January 29, 2025
Join us for PlayGround’s eighth annual Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in California solo performance! The festival runs until February 9, 2025 (Fri-Sun), presented live on our stage and also simulcast online. More… Today we’re spotlighting Diana Brown in VERTIGO-BUT NOT THE MOVIE by Susan Lily Jackson (2/7 at 7pm, 2/8 at […]
Posted on January 29, 2025
Join us for PlayGround’s eighth annual Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in California solo performance! The festival runs until February 9, 2025 (Fri-Sun), presented live on our stage and also simulcast online. More… Today we’re spotlighting Tansu Philip in Most Achieved Person (2/7 at 7pm, 2/8 at 4pm, & 2/9 at 1pm). […]
Posted on January 29, 2025
Join us for PlayGround’s eighth annual Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in California solo performance! The festival runs until February 9, 2025 (Fri-Sun), presented live on our stage and also simulcast online. More… Today we’re spotlighting Lucy London in Grasping at Straws (2/2 at 4pm, 2/8, 2/9 at 7pm). Grasping at Straws: […]