Posted on December 9, 2022
The people have spoken… The November People’s Choice Award goes to Matthew Y. Morishige for his play Work/Shoot, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on November 21st live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Matthew! Courtesy of Matthew we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the […]
Posted on December 7, 2022
“Bah,” said Scrooge, “Humbug.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Playwright incubator PlayGround has announced the prompt for the third Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 29th season. Thirty-six San Francisco Bay Area writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt “HOLIDAY SPIRIT” as they vie for one of […]
Posted on December 2, 2022
PlayGround presents Season 29 A Very Hitchcock Christmas December 10 & 11, 2022 7pm PT 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 […]
Posted on November 29, 2022
Dear Friends, In the last year, PlayGround has triumphantly returned to in-person performances in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, all while growing our community with the second year of PlayGround New York, and our newest expansion to Chicago in September. Because we are a proud artistic home for so many, this year we reached […]
Posted on November 18, 2022
PlayGround presents Season 29 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “GIVE AND TAKE“ November 21, 2022 7pm PT 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 […]
Posted on November 4, 2022
PlayGround presents 4th Annual Innovator Showcase Nov 7-28, 2022 Live at Potrero Stage + 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 Francisco Peninsula and East Bay, […]
Posted on November 4, 2022
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this November! Kristy Lin Billuni‘s play, “A Distinct Gay Vibe” will appear November 17 & 18 at the Eagle NYC in National Queer Theatre’s Kinky Pint Sized Plays, a night of short new plays set in a leather bar with enough booze, kink, and theatrics […]
Posted on October 28, 2022
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Maury Zeff for his play The Extraordinary, Ordinary Ones, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on October 10th live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Maury! Courtesy of Maury we’re pleased to share the first two […]
Posted on October 26, 2022
Monday Night PlayGround is all about potential: the potential of new writers for the stage, finding inspiration in a prompt, writing a short play, and then seeing that short play performed for the first time, live before other theatre makers and theatre-goers. The potential of new stories — comedic, dramatic and those that defy a […]
Posted on October 22, 2022
“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.” – William Shakespeare Playwright incubator PlayGround has announced the prompt for the second Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 29th season. Thirty-six San Francisco Bay Area writers have just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts […]