Posted on January 24, 2024
The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its seventh year, this year’s Solo Fest runs January 26-February 11, 2024, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks. Today’s spotlight: Bethany Mitchell in Boxsteps and Beers, 1/27 & 1/28 at 7pm Boxsteps and Beers is the fantastical, musical story […]
Posted on January 24, 2024
The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its seventh year, this year’s Solo Fest runs January 26-February 11, 2024, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks. Today’s spotlight: Hector Zavala in Seeking The Last Gay Man, 1/26 & 1/28 at 7pm Seeking The Last Gay Man is […]
Posted on January 24, 2024
The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its seventh year, this year’s Solo Fest runs January 26-February 11, 2024, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks in-person at Potrero Stage and simulcast. Today’s spotlight: Steve Budd in Seeing Stars, 1/26 & 1/27 at 7pm Ever […]
Posted on January 22, 2024
PlayGround presents The 7th Annual PLAYGROUND SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL January 26 – February 11, 2024 7pm PT Potrero Stage & Online 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 […]
Posted on January 15, 2024
PlayGround presents Season 30 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “The Shakespeare Multiverse” January 15th, 2023 7pm PT Live at Freight & 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 […]
Posted on January 7, 2024
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass” PlayGround has announced and officially opened the submission window for their 16th annual Young Playwrights Contest, a showcase celebrating the best budding new voices for the stage. Produced in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO) as part of […]
Posted on January 5, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this January! Ben Chau-Chiu is assistant directing the world premiere of Minna Lee’s MY HOME ON THE MOON at SF Playhouse, directed by Mei Ann Teo. Also working on this are fellow company members Rinabeth Apostol, Will Dao, Elena Wright, and NY company member […]
Posted on December 29, 2023
The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Daniel Martinez Jr for his play Off the Shelf, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on December 18th live at Freight and Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Daniel! Courtesy of Daniel, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from […]
Posted on December 28, 2023
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5, William Shakespeare What if King Hamlet had discovered his brother’s plans before the treacherous poisoning? Or if Romeo had arrived just a few minutes later to discover Juliet awakening? PlayGround playwrights take us […]
Posted on December 26, 2023
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its seventh annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 26-February 11, 2024 (Fri-Sun at 7pm PT), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work features 8 double-bill performances by eight California […]