Company in the News March 2023

 See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this March!

Isabel Anne To will be in the world premiere of Gordon Dahlquist’s TEA PARTY, directed by Erin Merritt, and playing March 2-19 at The Rueff at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater. The play is a taut, fast-paced thriller about the likely outcomes of violent political rhetoric, written in 2012 and predicting today and (hopefully not) tomorrow. Produced by One of Our Own, a cohort that was formed so that our dear friend Erin Merritt can have the opportunity to direct one last time before her terminal diagnosis of ALS makes it impossible. Get tickets here.

Molly Noble is in tech rehearsals for TWELFTH NIGHT at The College Of Marin. Company member Elena Wright is the movement director. We run March 10-19 in the James Dunn Theatre. Get tickets for TWELFTH NIGHT!

Michael Barrett Austin will be appearing in David Henry Hwang’s CHINGLISH at SF Playhouse May 4-June 10. Get tickets here.

Jennifer Le Blanc is very excited and grateful to be acting in Shakespeare’s RICHARD II, directed by Kevin Hammond, co-produced by Perspective Theatre Company and The Pear. The play will run March 9-26 at The Pear in Mountain View. Get tickets here.

Jeunée Simon performs in TASHA, a one woman show exploring the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna at the hands of law enforcement in Farifax, Virginia in 2015. The play, written by artist and activist Cat Brooks, directed by Oakland’s Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, and performed by Jeunée Simon, explores her life and murder from the point of view of several characters, including Natasha’s mother, Sheriff Stacey Kincaid (Fairfax’ sherrif now and then), and Natasha herself. Buy tickets here.

Ezra Reaves produces and stars in THE SHUSHAN QUEENS, A PURIM MUSICAL on March 5th and 6th. Come in costumer and buy tickets here!

David MacFadden-Elliott‘s short play will be included in Bindlestiff Studio’s “The Love Edition: Sprung Edition.” The show is Bindlestiff’s most celebrated original short play series about love, heartache and the weirdness in between. MacFadden-Elliott’s piece is called TITANIA AND THE BOTTOM AT HOME and imagines how the strangest couple from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” might have lived happily ever after. “The Love Edition: Sprung Edition” runs for three weekends, Thu thru Sat, March 23 thru April 7. Learn more here.

Ross Peter Nelson is one of several writers creating the skits for SNL-Helena, the biennial satire of current events and Montana politics that will be presented March 15-18 at the Myrna Loy. Get tickets here.

Jediah Craig’s full-length play NO EXPECTATIONS was chosen as part of the 2023 PCSF Reading Series. The 2023 Reading Series will once again be presented on Zoom, enabling playwrights and audiences from distant locations to participate. The air date is TBD, likely late May or June.

Cherielyn Ferguson‘s one-act play, EMERGENCY PREP, was produced in February at Adams State University in Colorado, and Lit Crit was featured in Chameleon Theatre Circle’s February 10-Minute Play Festival.