Posted on July 5, 2024
The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its eighth year, the next Solo Fest will take place January 24-February 9, 2025, performed live at Potrero Stage and simulcast online, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks. Only California-based artists eligible to submit. PlayGround is […]
Posted on July 1, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this July! Lizzie Calogero will be playing a delightful assortment of characters in the SF Mime Troupe’s summer show, American Dreams. We’re free in Bay Area parks throughout July and August, and we’re loud and funny! Not silent mime! Info available here. Jonathan Spector‘s […]
Posted on June 7, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this June! Jeunée Simon has the pleasure of performing in a new play by Naomi Iizuka, Garuda’s Wing, a mesmerizing blend of personal intimacy and international intrigue! Garuda’s Wing is a magical experience, a spellbinding trance that begins in Borneo and takes us back […]
Posted on May 9, 2024
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the lineup for PlayGround’s 2nd Annual Best of the Best of PlayGround. This unique showcase is a culmination of the 2023-24 Monday Night seasons hosted in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. The line-up includes Bessie in Medias Res by Robyn Brooks (San Francisco), Love Language of Origin […]
Posted on May 7, 2024
Hear from by Jacob Marx Rice, playwright of A THOUSAND NATURAL SHOCKS May 18 & May 19, 2025, at 7pm PT. The Festival Premiere Presentation is directed Directed by Tracy Ward Potrero Stage & Simulcast/On-Demand thru May 31 Admission: $0-$50 (donations gratefully accepted) or Festival Sponsorship A Thousand Natural Shocks follows Kennedy, who is doing okay! Her depression […]
Posted on May 3, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this May! Rebecca Pingree will ring in the final performance of SF Shakes on Tour As You Like It at the San Francisco Public Library May 11th at 2pm, perform in the west coast premiere of A Thousand Natural Shocks at Potrero Stage May […]
Posted on April 18, 2024
The full lineup for PlayGround’s 28th annual Festival of New Works, a preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, has been announced! This year’s festival, all performed live at Potrero Stage and simulcast, will feature premiere presentations of Anne Yumi Kobori’s Apertures of Love in Times of War and Jacob Marx Rice’s A […]
Posted on April 11, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO – The lineup has been announced for PlayGround’s 28th annual Festival of New Works Staged Readings: Rivals of Mars by Bridgette Dutta Portman (Friday, May 10), Work/Shoot by Matthew Y. Morishige (Monday, May 13), The Passing Storm by Jessica June Rowe (Friday, May 17), and Crazy Jezebels by Bailey Jordan Garcia (Monday, May […]
Posted on March 29, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this April! April Ballesteros will be Assistant Stage Managing the World Premiere of Sign My Name To Freedom written by Michael Gene Sullivan and directed by Elizabeth Carter at ZSpace. Presented by San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company. Runs March 29, 2024 to April […]
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”, […]