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 […]
Posted on October 21, 2022
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
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 October 1, 2022
PlayGround is pleased to announce a significant new opportunity for Bay Area producers of new plays! The PlayGround Re-Play Festival is a four-week new works festival (February 13-March 12, 2023) at Potrero Stage and simulcast, providing a platform for the San Francisco premiere of new plays that were originally produced elsewhere in the Bay Area. […]
Posted on September 30, 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 23, 2022
“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” – Tennessee Williams Playwright incubator PlayGround has announced the prompt for the first […]
Posted on September 21, 2022
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 […]