Posted on January 16, 2025
“The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness.” – George Washington, January 9, 1790 PlayGround has announced and officially opened the submission window for their 17th annual Young Playwrights Contest, a showcase celebrating the best budding new voices for the stage. This year’s Young Playwrights Contest […]
Posted on January 13, 2025
“We know what we are but not what we may be.” – Ophelia, Hamlet In the spirit of past PlayGround topics such as “Shakespeare’s Prequels” and last year’s “Shakespeare Multiverse, ” PlayGround writers are set to take on a new sector of the Bard’s not-previously-explored canon: THE SHAKESPEARE SEQUELS. What happens after that joyous wedding […]
Posted on January 3, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this January! Patricia Cotter’s audio play, DID I MISS ANYTHING IMPORTANT? (a James Stevenson Commission for Short Comedic Play,) is now streaming on the podcast, PLAYING ON AIR directed by Marchánt Davis, it features actors David Rasche (Broadway: Cult of Love), and Maryanne Plunkett […]
Posted on December 27, 2024
The people have spoken… The December’s People’s Choice Award goes to Bridgette Dutta Portman for her play An Emblem of Christmas, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on December 16th live at the David Brower Center and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Bridgette! Courtesy of Bridgette, we’re pleased to share the first […]
Posted on December 20, 2024
“We know what we are but not what we may be.” – Ophelia, Hamlet In the spirit of past topics such as “Shakespeare’s Prequels” and last year’s “Shakespeare Multiverse, ” PlayGround writers are set to take on a new sector of the Bard’s not-previously-explored canon: THE SHAKESPEARE SEQUELS. What happens after that joyous wedding at […]
Posted on December 13, 2024
PlayGround presents Season 31 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Holiday Surprise” December 16, 2024 7pm PT The David Brower Center & 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 […]
Posted on December 6, 2024
PlayGround presents Season 31 A Very Hitchcock Christmas December 7 & 8, 2024 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 December 5, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this December! Monique Hafen Adams has been writing for a children’s podcast called Dorktales Storytime. She has two episodes out already (“Never Never No No Land” and “Knock on Wood”) and is slotted to write five more. Check it out anywhere you listen to […]
Posted on December 3, 2024
At our 30th Anniversary Gala this year, Broadway playwright Jonathan Spector shared, “I don’t know if I would be a playwright today if it weren’t for PlayGround.” For 30 years, PlayGround has provided hundreds of writers their very first opportunity to hear their words out loud. Of course we hope all our playwrights make it to Broadway, but […]
Posted on November 29, 2024
The people have spoken… The November’s People’s Choice Award goes to Jennifer Le Blanc for her play Let’s Try This Again, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on November 18th live at Potrero Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Jennifer! Courtesy of Jennifer, we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]