Posted on July 5, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

Call for CA-based Solo Shows: Submit by September 30

The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its eighth year, the next Solo Fest will take place January 24-February 9, 2025, performed live at Potrero Stage and simulcast online, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks. Only California-based artists eligible to submit. PlayGround is […]

Posted on July 1, 2024

Zoe Chien

Company in the News July-2024

See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this July! Lizzie Calogero will be playing a delightful assortment of characters in the SF Mime Troupe’s summer show, American Dreams. We’re free in Bay Area parks throughout July and August, and we’re loud and funny! Not silent mime! Info available here. Jonathan Spector‘s […]

Posted on June 14, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

Eleven Events Announced for 2024 Free-Play Festival

PlayGround closes out the summer season with the third annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 9-25, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This three-week “fringe style” new works festival features 11 productions from highly sought-after theatre artists from across the country including four PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Ranging in subject from the […]

Posted on June 7, 2024

Zoe Chien

Company in the News June-2024

See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this June! Jeunée Simon has the pleasure of performing in a new play by Naomi Iizuka, Garuda’s Wing, a mesmerizing blend of personal intimacy and international intrigue! Garuda’s Wing is a magical experience, a spellbinding trance that begins in Borneo and takes us back […]

Posted on May 31, 2024

River Bermudez-Sanders

One PlayGround Festival Playbill (May/Jun-2024)

One PlayGround Festival Multi-day Festival and Conference Celebrating the National PlayGround Community May 31-June 2, 2024 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 May 15, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

May 24 Potrero Hill Community Celebration: Land Acknowledgment Mural & Young Playwrights Project

On Friday evening, May 24, PlayGround will host a Potrero Hill Community Celebration, including the unveiling of a new land acknowledgment mural by Indigenous & San Francisco artist Natalie Contreras, developed in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO), the original and continuing stewards of the lands upon which PlayGround’s home theatre, Potrero Stage, […]