Posted on February 21, 2025
“A robot may not injure a human or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” – The First Law of Robotics, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov Technology – humanity’s greatest achievement, or our fiercest enemy? Don’t miss PlayGround’s first ever night of Sci-Fi as our playwrights tackle the big existential questions about […]
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 14, 2025
PlayGround presents Season 31 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “If I Had a Song: Folk-Inspired Short Musicals” February 17th, 2025 7pm PT Potrero Stage & 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 […]
Posted on February 7, 2025
The people have spoken… The January’s People’s Choice Award goes to Carl Andrew Johnson for his play Othello: Lies and Consequences, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on January 27th live at the David Brower Center and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Carl! Courtesy of Carl, we’re pleased to share the first […]
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: […]
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 Miyoko Sakatani in I Wasn’t Always An Asian (2/2, 2/8, & 2/9 at 4pm). Miyoko takes […]
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 Steve Harper in SNOW (Black man / White out Conditions) (1/31 at 7pm, 2/1 at 4pm, & 2/2 […]