Posted on May 23, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

Third Annual One PlayGround Festival (May 30-June 1)

Registration is now open for the 3rd Annual ONE PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL, a three-day festival and conference, celebrating the national PlayGround community! The entire PlayGround community, theatre-makers from across the country, and the general public are invited to attend Potrero Stage or participate online May 30-June 1, 2025. The Festival will be available On-Demand through June […]

Posted on May 19, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

An “Interview” with Playwright Laura Domingo

Wow has time flown!! It’s time for the final “interview” with one of the playwrights featured in the PlayGround’s 29th Festival of New Works! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t […]

Posted on May 15, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

Winners of the 2025 Young Playwrights Contest “The American Experiment”

PlayGround is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Young Playwrights Contest, an open-submission competition that provides winning high school playwrights with a professional staged reading during the PlayGround Festival of New Works. The winning plays and playwrights of this year’s contest are The Lavender by Myles-Alexys Jones (Moreau Catholic High School), The Poet’s […]

Posted on May 13, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

An “Interview” with Playwright Madeleine Butler

Huzza! It’s another “interview” with one of the playwrights featured in the PlayGround’s 29th Festival of New Works! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). And if you’re […]

Posted on May 12, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

An “Interview” with Playwright Lyra Nalan

Welcome to another “interview” with the playwrights featured in the PlayGround’s 29th Festival of New Works! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). And if you’re looking for […]

Posted on May 9, 2025

Jim Kleinmann

29th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works Playbill

PlayGround presents Season 31 29th ANNUAL PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS May 6th-25th, 2025 Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast On-Demand thru May 31 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 May 9, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

An “Interview” with Karissa Murrell Myers

How about another “interview” featuring one our 2025 Festival playwrights? Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). If you’re looking for tickets to the festival, you can find […]