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”, […]
Posted on March 8, 2024
Missed a Monday Night PlayGround? We got you! Announcing MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND LIVE, a special in-person screening at Potrero Stage of the entire 30th season of Monday Night PlayGround, offered over two Saturdays, at 6pm, 7:30pm, and 9pm on March 23 and 30. Join fellow PlayGround lovers for performances originally performed for a live audience at […]
Posted on March 8, 2024
PlayGround is offering a free one-day intensive workshop for Bay Area residents (18 and up) interested in entering the field of theatre tech and design. Led by PlayGround resident designer Brittany Mellerson, the workshop will be offered at PlayGround’s home theatre, Potrero Stage, on Saturday, March 23, 12pm-5pm PT, and repeated on Saturday, March 30, […]
Posted on March 4, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this March! Kimberly Ridgeway is directing the World Premiere of Jewelle Gomez’ “Unpacking in P’Town” at New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) in San Francisco from March 1 – 31, 2024. Learn more here. Julia Brothers is off to Florida Studio Theatre to do The White […]
Posted on February 1, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this February! River Bermudez Sanders and Melanie Marshall are performing, Lana Richards is directing a piece she adapted & wrote, and Claire Ganem is directing a play by Eteya Trinidad in Cutting Ball Theatre’s Short Cuts Festival. The Short Cuts director series features 6 directors […]
Posted on January 22, 2024
PlayGround presents The 7th Annual PLAYGROUND SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL January 26 – February 11, 2024 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 January 5, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this January! Ben Chau-Chiu is assistant directing the world premiere of Minna Lee’s MY HOME ON THE MOON at SF Playhouse, directed by Mei Ann Teo. Also working on this are fellow company members Rinabeth Apostol, Will Dao, Elena Wright, and NY company member […]
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 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 […]