Posted on March 25, 2024
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected plays and playwrights for our annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND(SF) ’24, including first-time festival writers Robyn Brooks, Kimberly Ridgeway, Louel Señores, Stan Stone and Lisa Gaye Thompson, and returning “Best of” playwright Justin P. Lopez. For two nights only, PlayGround will celebrate these artists and their […]
Posted on March 22, 2024
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Stan Stone for his play Freedom, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 18th live at Freight and Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Stan! Courtesy of Stan, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning […]
Posted on March 19, 2024
Casting has been announced for PlayGround’s 28th annual Festival of New Works Premieres: Anne Yumi Kobori’s Apertures of Love in Times of War (May 11-12, 2024) and Jacob Marx Rice’s A Thousand Natural Shocks (May 18-19, 2024). These works, one historical and the other contemporary but both steeped in the fraught ideal of the “American Dream”, […]
Posted on March 18, 2024
PlayGround presents Season 30 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “RECLAIMING HERSTORY” March 18th, 2024 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 March 8, 2024
Missed a Monday Night PlayGround? We got you! Announcing MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND LIVE, a special in-person screening at Potrero Stage of the entire 30th season of Monday Night PlayGround, offered over two Saturdays, at 6pm, 7:30pm, and 9pm on March 23 and 30. Join fellow PlayGround lovers for performances originally performed for a live audience at […]
Posted on March 8, 2024
PlayGround is offering a free one-day intensive workshop for Bay Area residents (18 and up) interested in entering the field of theatre tech and design. Led by PlayGround resident designer Brittany Mellerson, the workshop will be offered at PlayGround’s home theatre, Potrero Stage, on Saturday, March 23, 12pm-5pm PT, and repeated on Saturday, March 30, […]
Posted on March 4, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this March! Kimberly Ridgeway is directing the World Premiere of Jewelle Gomez’ “Unpacking in P’Town” at New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) in San Francisco from March 1 – 31, 2024. Learn more here. Julia Brothers is off to Florida Studio Theatre to do The White […]
Posted on March 1, 2024
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Lisa Gaye Thompson for her play Mack & Mimi Encounter Totality, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 19th live at Freight and Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Lisa! Courtesy of Lisa, we’re pleased to share the first two […]
Posted on February 28, 2024
PlayGround has announced the 6th annual cohort for the Innovator Incubator program. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative theatre companies and productions with a strong commitment to historically marginalized or excluded communities. The multi-year intensive incubation program provides access and opportunity for emerging theatre companies, by offering financial support, fiscal […]
Posted on February 23, 2024
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2024-2025 Producing Fellowship, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a living. Candidates must […]