Posted on October 21, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround’s New “Twisted” Holiday Show, “A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS” Dec 10-11 only!

PlayGround marks the holiday season with a brand-new “twisted” holiday show, “A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS,” featuring new short plays by Jeffrey Lo, Marissa Skudlarek, Cleavon Smith, Alexis Standridge, Eteya Trinidad, and Maury Zeff, melding holiday themes and your favorite Hitchcock thrillers, including “Vertigo”, “Rear Window”, “Notorious”, “North by Northwest”, “Strangers on a Train”, and “Rebecca”! […]

Posted on October 10, 2022

Savannah Greene

October 10th Monday Night PlayGround Playbill

PlayGround presents Season 29 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “IN DISGUISE“ October 10, 2022 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 inhabitants […]

Posted on September 30, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

Company in the News Oct-2022

See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this October! PlayGround IN2 company Analog Theatre (co-led by Rebecca Pingree and Elissa Beth Stebbins) will close their 2022 season with a Halloween Mask Monday! Come join the mayhem at Standard Deviant Brewing in SF for award-winning beer and promisingly-unfinished physical theatre. Featuring a bevy […]

Posted on September 21, 2022

Savannah Greene

4th Annual Innovators Showcase Spotlights Tomorrow’s Visionaries Today

PlayGround has announced the programming lineup for the 4th annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2022 Innovator Incubator Cohort: Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, City Street Artists, Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project, Latinx Mafia, Native Writers’ Theater, Poltergeist Theatre Project, Oakland Public Theater and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to […]

Posted on September 18, 2022

Bacilio Mendez

PlayGround Gala Playbill (Sep-2022)

Welcome to the 2022 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, beginning this Fall, Chicago. With the addition of PlayGround-Chicago, Monday Night PlayGround—the signature short play program which has run successfully in the Bay Area for almost 30 years—will […]

Posted on September 12, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

Breed or Bust Digital Playbill

PlayGround presents Season 29 BREED OR BUST written & performed by Joyful Raven directed by Jael Weisman September 9-24, 2022 Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group, and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network (NNPN). Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land […]

Posted on September 9, 2022

Jim Kleinmann

2022-23 Monday Night PlayGround Series

PlayGround has announced a company of 144 writers who will take part in the 2022-23 edition of its signature Monday Night PlayGround (MNP) series across four cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. MNP is an artist-centered incubator for plays and playwrights. For each city, 36 writers write a ten-minute play in response […]

Posted on September 2, 2022

Justin Lopez

Company in the News September-2022

See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this September! Allie Costa‘s play BLUE CHRISTMAS is having its world premiere September 9th through 18th at Stella Adler in Hollywood as part of A Light in Dark Places. Learn more here. Also, hear Allie on the latest episodes of THE KIT BULL STORY and FILAMENT, […]