Posted on April 7, 2025
The full lineup for PlayGround’s 29th 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 May 6-25 and simulcast, will feature premiere presentations of Matthew Morishige’s Work/Shoot and Jessica June Rowe’s The Passing Storm; as well as […]
Posted on April 4, 2025
PlayGround Festival: Kick-Off & Playwrights Panel Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM PDT – Potrero Stage Admission is free, Reserve your ticket here Hear from five of the playwrights featured in this year’s Festival of New Works! Join Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann in conversation with PlayGround playwright alumni Jediah Craig, Carl Andrew Johnson, Daniel […]
Posted on April 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this April! Nancy Carlin directs the world premiere of Buttercup by J.D. Murphy, inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif. This new work runs April 3-13 in San Rafael, featuring Lizzie Calogero as Sister Walter of the Lamentable Poor and Norman Gee as […]
Posted on March 28, 2025
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2025-26 Producing Fellowship, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a living. Candidates must […]
Posted on March 21, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(SF) ‘25. Originally developed among thirty-six new short plays through PlayGround’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, these plays will receive a two-night encore performance on May 24 & 25, 2025 at 7pm PT at Potrero […]
Posted on March 20, 2025
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to George Rose for his play, Nature’s Final Solution, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 17th live at the David Brower Center and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, George! Courtesy of George, we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]
Posted on March 16, 2025
PlayGround presents Season 31 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Sci Fi” March 17th, 2025 7pm PT David Brower Center & 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 San Francisco Peninsula […]
Posted on March 3, 2025
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Alexis Standridge for her play, 16 TONS, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 17th live at Potrero Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Alexis! Courtesy of Alexis, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning […]
Posted on March 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this March! 3Girls Theatre’s 2025 New Works Festival celebrates fresh new plays by women+ playwrights whose work has been in development through 3GT’s Reading Series. The festival runs from March 7–16 at KALW, 220 Montgomery Street, SF, with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at […]
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 […]