Monday Night PlayGround

PlayGround presents Season 31
MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND
February 17, 2025, 7pm PT
Potrero Stage (San Francisco)
Topic: If I Had a Song: Folk-Inspired Short Musicals
Admission: Free to stream, watch on-demand, and at the door on show nights (donations gratefully accepted). Advanced reservations start at $10.

“I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.” – Pete Seeger

Folk music has been inspiring, uniting, and igniting communities for generations. Join us for our annual “musical theatre night” as PlayGround writers incorporate some of the folk genre’s most iconic songs into new plays for now.

Plays and Playwrights include:
Whisper by Laura Domingo
I’ve Looked at Clouds that Way by KT Frances Hartline
This Land is Mined Land by Carl Andrew Johnson
Returning Pony by Bridgette Dutta Portman
16 Tons by Alexis Standridge
The Ballad of Yuan Guan by Livian Yeh

TICKETS MEMBERSHIPS PLAYBILL PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Each month, from October through March, PlayGround announces a topic to a pre-selected writers pool of Bay Area emerging professional playwrights, inviting submissions of original ten-page plays. The top short plays are selected and presented as script-in-hand staged readings on the third Monday of the month, featuring some of the Bay Area’s best directors and actors. All performances are offered in-person and live simulcast, as well as admission-free (donations gratefully accepted), for maximum accessibility. NEW: Purchase a tax-deductible Monday Night PlayGround Membership ($100) and guarantee simulcast and extended on-demand access to all twenty-four (24) Monday Night PlayGround performances in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago (less than $5 per event or just $.69 per play). Payment plans available. ADVERTISERS: Become a Monday Night Season Sponsor and promote your business to the PlayGround community while helping support hundreds of local artists.