Posted on January 8, 2026
PlayGround has announced and officially opened the submission window for their 18th annual Young Playwrights Contest, a showcase celebrating the best budding new voices for the stage. The Young Playwrights Contest will feature original short plays inspired by the prompt “Tales of the City”, a prompt also given to PlayGround’s professional writers for the January […]
Posted on January 1, 2026
Check out what company Playwrights, Actors, and Directors are up to this December including: Lana Richards, Katja Rivera, Michael Barrett Austin, Tanika Baptiste, Kimberly Ridgeway, Jan Probst, Emily Keyishian, Carolyn Doyle, Eiko Moon Yamamoto, Lisa Gaye Thompson, andBridgette Dutta Portman! Continue scrolling for Katie Rubin‘s Audition Announcement of “The 39 Steps,” adapted by Patrick Barlow. Lana […]
Posted on December 29, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator, has announced five new offerings as a part of its revamped education program for adults. The workshops and masterclasses will be lead by acclaimed playwrights Jonathan Spector, (Tony Award-Winner, Eureka Day), Lydia R. Diamond (Broadway: Toni Stone, Stick Fly), Steve Yockey (Emmy Nominee & Multiple NNPN Rolling World Premieres), […]
Posted on December 19, 2025
“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” -Plato The topic for the January 19 Monday Night PlayGround-SF has been announced: TALES OF THE CITY. Playwrights in the PlayGround-SF Writers Pool have been invited to generate an original short play, fictional or fact-based, historical or contemporary, that is specific to […]
Posted on December 18, 2025
The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Sophie Ruf for her play, Lil Ole Orphan Annie, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on December 1, 2025 live at Potrero Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Sophie! Courtesy of Sophie, we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]
Posted on December 11, 2025
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its first annual PlayGround Comedy Festival, an eclectic lineup of innovative performances including stand-up, sketch, improv, comedic plays, and more! Performances run March 6-29, 2026 (Thurs-Mon), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival features 18 hilarious acts and 60 performances produced by Lee Archer, […]
Posted on December 6, 2025
Check out what company Playwrights, Actors, and Directors are up to this December including Katie Ruben, Louis Parnell, Louel Senores, Evelyn Jean Pine, Greg Lam, Michael Barrett Austin, Charisse Loriaux, Robert Sicular, Kimberly Ridgeway, Richard Perez, and Carolyn Doyle. Katie Ruben is so so excited to announce that our company, Sixth Line Studios, just got FULL […]
Posted on December 5, 2025
PlayGround presents Season 32 “A Very Hitchcock Christmas” December 6 & 7, 2024 7pm PT Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast & On-Demand Executive Producers Robert & Sandra Allen Emilie & Gordon Brooks Nitin & Vasugi Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman Craig Moody Regina Guggenheim Keith Goldstein & Donna Warrington […]
Posted on November 26, 2025
PlayGround presents Season 32 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND-SF “Musical Parody” December 1st, 2025 7pm PT Potrero Stage & 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 and […]
Posted on November 21, 2025
Here we are – the final Playwright Spotlight Series Holiday Edition, of 2025! Today we’re featuring PlayGround-LA alum and PlayGround Directing of Marketing and Communications Jonathan Josephson and his play The Birds is Coming (Inspired by The Birds), one of five plays being presented as a part of PlayGround’s 4th annual A Very Hitchcock Christmas, running at […]