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 […]
Posted on October 1, 2023
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this October! April Ballesteros is serving as the lead Stage Manager for Golden Thread Production’s ReOrient Festival opening October 16th at Potrero Stage! Tickets to the ReOrient Festival available here. April is also appearing in (trans)formada this month at Shotgun Players as part of […]
Posted on September 22, 2023
“A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey, political activist PlayGround blasts into its 30th season of innovative new plays by taking you back to before the beginning! Join us for a new round of Monday Night PlayGround, featuring original short plays all […]
Posted on September 16, 2023
Welcome to the 2023 One PlayGround Gala! This year’s gala celebrates the national scope of PlayGround’s programming in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago. With the launch of PlayGround-Chicago last year, Monday Night PlayGround—the signature short play program which has run successfully in the Bay Area for 30 years—is now produced […]
Posted on September 1, 2023
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the 30th season of Monday Night PlayGround, the nation’s longest-running and most celebrated staged reading series, now available in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, NYC and Chicago, both in-person and simulcast. The season kicks off at Hollywood’s Broadwater Theaters on October 9, 2023 and concludes April 1, 2024 at […]
Posted on September 1, 2023
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this September! Ben Chau-Chiu is one of the understudies for SF Shakes’ Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, directed by fellow company member Maryssa Wanlass! He has a planned performance on September 9th for another company member Brian Herndon‘s track of Musician […]
Posted on August 21, 2023
The second annual PlayGround Free-Play Festival, a fringe-style free-admission three-week showcase of new works by Bay Area artists, concludes this week with the premiere of Ipsheeta Furtado’s DISTANCED DATES, presented by Network Effects Theater, August 25-27 at 7pm PDT at Potrero Stage and simulcast. We recently spoke with Ipsheeta to get a behind-the-scenes look at […]
Posted on August 17, 2023
PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th season with the announcement of the Season 30 Writers Pool, 36 early-career Bay Area-based playwrights competitively selected from applications received this summer. Over the course of the upcoming 2023-24 season, these writers will generate over 150 original short […]