Posted on February 12, 2026
(SAN FRANCISCO) – Applications are now being accepted for PlayGround’s fifth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, July 31-August 23, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival will feature up to 20 productions and 60 performances by talented theatre artists from across the country including PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area, Los […]
Posted on February 3, 2026
Carolyn Doyle will be performing her solo show Good Grief: Tales From a Persistent Blockhead at the PlayGround Solo Fest. January 26-February 8, 2026. Miyoko Sakatani will be performing her one woman show about a courageous Japanese American woman who has been often overlooked while the men who resisted the same fight with wartime cases […]
Posted on January 30, 2026
The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Stan Stone for his play, Bridges of San Francisco County, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on January 19, 2026 live at the David Brower Center and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Stan! Courtesy of Stan, we’re pleased to share the […]
Posted on January 30, 2026
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.” – Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon (illustrations by Clement Hurd) The topic for the March 2 Monday Night PlayGround-SF has been announced: BEDTIME STORIES. Playwrights in the PlayGround-SF Writers Pool have been invited to generate an original short play intended for young audiences (Theatre for Young Audiences, TYA) […]
Posted on January 19, 2026
PlayGround presents Season 32 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Tales of the City” January 19th, 2026 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 […]
Posted on January 16, 2026
PlayGround presents Season 32 2026 Solo Fest January 16 – February 8, 2026 Live at Potrero Stage + 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 of the San […]
Posted on January 8, 2026
PlayGround has announced and officially opened the submission window for their 18th annual Young Playwrights Contest, a showcase celebrating the best budding new voices for the stage. The Young Playwrights Contest will feature original short plays inspired by the prompt “Tales of the City”, a prompt also given to PlayGround’s professional writers for the January […]
Posted on January 1, 2026
Check out what company Playwrights, Actors, and Directors are up to this December including: Lana Richards, Katja Rivera, Michael Barrett Austin, Tanika Baptiste, Kimberly Ridgeway, Jan Probst, Emily Keyishian, Carolyn Doyle, Eiko Moon Yamamoto, Lisa Gaye Thompson, andBridgette Dutta Portman! Continue scrolling for Katie Rubin‘s Audition Announcement of “The 39 Steps,” adapted by Patrick Barlow. Lana […]
Posted on December 29, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator, has announced five new offerings as a part of its revamped education program for adults. The workshops and masterclasses will be lead by acclaimed playwrights Jonathan Spector, (Tony Award-Winner, Eureka Day), Lydia R. Diamond (Broadway: Toni Stone, Stick Fly), Steve Yockey (Emmy Nominee & Multiple NNPN Rolling World Premieres), […]
Posted on December 19, 2025
“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” -Plato The topic for the January 19 Monday Night PlayGround-SF has been announced: TALES OF THE CITY. Playwrights in the PlayGround-SF Writers Pool have been invited to generate an original short play, fictional or fact-based, historical or contemporary, that is specific to […]