Posted on November 5, 2025
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its ninth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in solo performance, running January 16-February 8, 2026 (Thurs-Mon), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work (the largest in PlayGround’s history!) features 17 solo performers and 58 performances, […]
Posted on November 4, 2025
“I’ll blow the Gershwin up because I AM the loudest WITCH IN OZ! And, no one’s gonna turn my volume doooown!” – Forbidden Broadway The topic for the December 1 Monday Night PlayGround-SF has been announced: MUSICAL PARODY! The event will also serve as PlayGround’s annual “musical theatre night.” We love musicals, we really do. […]
Posted on November 1, 2025
Check out what company Playwrights, Actors, and Directors are up to this November including Davern Wright, Alanna McFall, Ben Chau-Chiu, Chris Steele, Carolyn Doyle, Eiko Moon-Yamamoto, GG Grilli, Jacinta Kaumbulu, James W. Perry, Lisa Morse, Louis Parnell, Norman Gee, Ross Peter Nelson, and Wayne Wong. Davern Wright invites you to listen to the debut episode […]
Posted on October 31, 2025
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Daniel Martinez Jr for his play, Certified Super Sleuth, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on October 20th live at the David Brower Center and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Daniel! Courtesy of Daniel, we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]
Posted on October 31, 2025
Ever dreamed of seeing your name in lights (or at least on a playbill)? Now’s your chance to step into the spotlight as a producer! This holiday season PlayGround-SF invites you to help us create some “twisted” holiday magic by becoming an Honorary Producer of A Very Hitchcock Christmas! Happening at Potrero Stage in San Francisco […]
Posted on October 17, 2025
PlayGround presents Season 32 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND-SF “Murder Mystery” October 20th, 2025 7pm PT 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 Peninsula […]
Posted on October 6, 2025
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this October! Acting Retreat | Winter Session – Applications Open Now! January 19–24, 2026. Mexico City Early Bird Special: Apply before October 15, 2025 and enjoy $400 off. Apply: hechaleproductions.com/actingretreat. Together with PlayGround, we’re bringing actors from around the world to Mexico City this January,2026 […]
Posted on September 29, 2025
What happens when RALPHIE Parker and Ethan GRINCH meet on an Amtrak and devise a plan to help each other achieve their biggest holiday desires? Or, how can we bear with the fact that Santa was found dead in a couple’s apartment; but was St. Nick’s untimely death a result of self-defense…or murder?? Enjoy these […]
Posted on September 19, 2025
“The game is afoot.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange The topic for the October 20 Monday Night PlayGround-SF has been announced: MURDER MYSTERY! The event will also serve as PlayGround’s second annual evening of one-person plays. From Sherlock Holmes adventures to true crime podcasts, “who done it” stories are as […]
Posted on September 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this September! Melina Cohen-Bramwell’s CA$H grant winning play PLEASE DON’T SLOW ME DOWN will have it’s world premiere this coming October and November. (This play was first workshopped in PlayGround SF’s Free-Play Festival!). The show follows Benji Tullman, a bipolar, Bay-Area-born millennial—and the physical […]