Posted on November 28, 2023
PlayGround has had a busy year. With Monday Night PlayGround programs running in-person and streaming online in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, we are supporting 400+ writers, directors, actors and stage managers across the country as they create over 140 bold new works for the stage in a supportive community of […]
Posted on November 24, 2023
“You guys give up? Or are you thirsty for more?”- Kevin McCallister, Home Alone (1990) Come celebrate the holidays PlayGround-style at our next round of Monday Night PlayGround, December 18, 7PM PT, live at Freight & Salvage and simulcast online, featuring original short plays inspired by the prompt “Surviving the Holidays”. PlayGround’s sister companies, PlayGround-LA, PlayGround-NY, and PlayGround-Chicago […]
Posted on November 24, 2023
PlayGround has announced the cast for its second annual “twisted” holiday show, “A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS”, running December 10 & December 16-17 at Potrero Stage and simulcast, with on-demand access through New Year’s. The evening-length program features returning short plays by Jeffrey Lo, Alexis Standridge, and Eteya Trinidad, and three new short plays by Shoshanna […]
Posted on November 19, 2023
PlayGround presents Season 30 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “The Legacy of the Land We Inhabit” Presented in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone Sponsored by Avenue Greenlight & California Humanities November 20, 2023 7pm PT Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast & On-Demand Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit PlayGround acknowledges that […]
Posted on November 3, 2023
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Lisa Gaye Thompson for her play America Chavez: Particle Flyer, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on October 16th live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Lisa! Courtesy of Lisa, we’re pleased to share the first two […]
Posted on November 1, 2023
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this November! Catch Jed Parsario in Center Rep’s production of THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE, Dir. by Elizabeth Carter. Nov 4 – 26. Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek. Use the code ONSTAGE for $30 tickets. Ross Peter Nelson will have two works […]
Posted on October 20, 2023
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass” PlayGround welcomes you to join us for the next round of Monday Night PlayGround, presented on Monday, November 20, 7PM PT, live at Potrero Stage and simulcast online. Produced in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO) as part […]
Posted on October 20, 2023
PlayGround marks the holiday season with its second annual “twisted” holiday show: A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS, featuring returning short plays by Jeffrey Lo, Alexis Standridge, and Eteya Trinidad, and three new short plays by Shoshanna Green, Michael B. Kaplan, and J.S. Puller, melding holiday themes and your favorite Hitchcock films, including “Rope”, “Rear Window”, “Lifeboat”, […]
Posted on October 16, 2023
PlayGround Presents Season 30 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Origin Story“ October 16, 2023 7pm PT Live at Freight and Salvage + Simulcast & On-Demand 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 October 12, 2023
PlayGround has announced the programming lineup for the 5th annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2023 Innovator Incubator Cohort, Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, Native Writers’ Theater, Oakland Public Theater, Network Effects Theater Company, and Poltergeist Theatre Project, along with past incubator companies Kunoichi Productions, Latinx Mafia, and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator […]