Posted on August 17, 2021
Help double the impact of the Potrero-Dogpatch Performing Arts COVID Relief Fund with your tax-deductible donation! Potrero Hill and Dogpatch area performing arts organizations have been deeply impacted by the pandemic, with no in-person performances for more than a year and performing artists out of work. Even as the City of San Francisco reopens, performing […]
Posted on May 13, 2021
Did you catch the Potrero Stagers Launch Party on May 1? If so, you heard the exciting news about our new POTRERO STAGERS membership program. What are the Potrero Stagers?! POTRERO STAGERS [pə-trer-ō stā-jərz] NOUN (PL.) a community of theatregoers and artists actively engaged with the theatre and theatre-makers of Potrero Stage a pay-as-you-go membership program that unlocks […]
Posted on March 10, 2021
Following the success of last year’s first-ever PlayGround Zoom Fest, PlayGround’s 2021 Festival of New Works returns to the digital realm with even more radical accessibility! The three-week online Festival (May 10-30) will feature the digital premieres of PERFECT by Jonathan Luskin (he/him) and SAPIENCE by Diana Burbano (she/her), the YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT: a full evening of short plays by the Bay Area’s best young dramatists, and BEST […]
Posted on December 23, 2020
PlayGround announces the lineup for its fourth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 22 to February 7 online via Zoom. The festival features 9 double-bill live-streamed performances by California artists over three weeks, including one-night-only featured highlights by Marga Gomez and Sara Moore, and Bay […]
Posted on July 3, 2020
Are you missing live theatre?? PlayGround Zoom Fest, the nation’s largest fully-digital new play festival (originally presented via Zoom live-stream May 11-June 19), is now available on-demand through September 1! The Zoom Fest features readings and premiere presentations of more than 25 short and full-length plays as well as a Zoom Town Hall on PlayGround […]
Posted on July 2, 2020
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast’s premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights announces the lineup for the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring playwrights Tyler English-Beckwith, Stefani Kuo (郭佳怡), Jordan Ramirez Puckett, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, and Noelle Viñas. The 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival runs July 17-26, 2020 in an online format worldwide . The […]
Posted on June 17, 2020
In the American Theatre, we have long been guided by the principle that we can “change the world, one play at a time.” What if it was also one day at a time with the same play? On Friday, Juneteenth, (June 19th), theatre communities around the country will provide their response to the current moment […]
Posted on April 14, 2020
In 2017, PlayGround completed extensive renovations on the former Thick House Theater and relaunched it as Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays, a state-of-the-art performance venue dedicated to new plays and new voices for the stage. Today, on the 20th anniversary of the opening of Thick House, we launch the next stage in our […]
Posted on December 4, 2019
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its third annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, celebrating diversity and innovation, running January 23 to February 9 at Potrero Stage. The festival features 12 double-bill performances by 11 local artists over three weeks, including premier performances by John Fisher, […]
Posted on August 10, 2019
PlayGround has announced open availability for Potrero Stage through December 31, 2021. Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays is a 99-seat state-of-the-art performance space located in the heart of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, operated by PlayGround, and serving as home to some of the Bay Area’s leading new play developers and producers, including […]