News – Potrero Stage

Posted on March 11, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

Golden Thread Productions presents the World Premiere of AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf)

Golden Thread Productions presents World Premiere AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf) by Sona Tatoyan in collaboration with Jared Mezzocchi directed by Jared Mezzocchi featuring Sona Tatoyan, a tribe of Karagöz Puppets, and oud player Ara Dinkjiana co-production with Hakawati Syrian-Armenian-American theatre and film artist Sona Tatoyan, stranded in her family’s abandoned Aleppo home during the Syrian war, discovers […]

Posted on March 11, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

Oakland School for the Arts: The Colored Museum, Mar 21-23

Oakland School for the Arts comes to Potrero Stage with their production of George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum. March 21-23, 2025 at 7:00 pm, March 22 also at 2:00 pm, at Potrero Stage, 1695 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94107. Get Tickets Here About the play: The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted […]

Posted on February 20, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2025 FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL

JUST ANNOUNCED: APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2025 FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL PlayGround will close out the summer season with the fourth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival is open to artists from across the country who want to bring their show to San Francisco! PRODUCERS: SUBMIT HERE BY MARCH 24, 2025 Please use […]

Posted on February 2, 2025

Jim Kleinmann

AfroSolo Let Freedom Ring! Part 2 / Mar 28-30

AFROSOLO ARTS FESTIVAL 31 presents LET FREEDOM RING! (Part 2): A CELEBRATION OF BLACK RESILIENCE THROUGH SOLO PERFORMANCES. The event occurs Friday and Saturday, March 28 & 29, 2025, 7pm and Sunday, March 30, 2025, 3 pm, at Potrero Stage, 1695 18th Street, in San Francisco, CA and simulcast. This exhilarating program by the AfroSolo […]

Posted on November 21, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

PlayGround Announces the Eighth Annual Solo Performance Festival

PlayGround has announced the lineup for its eighth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 24-February 9, 2025 (Fri-Sun), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work features 18 double-bill performances by twelve California artists over three […]

Posted on November 19, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

Cast announced for PlayGround’s: A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS, Back for the Third Year

PlayGround presents its third annual “twisted” holiday show: A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS, inspired by the iconic films of Alfred Hitchcock. Performances are December 7-8 at 7:00 p.m. PST in person and streaming. A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS features the plays; Santa on a Rope by Shoshanna Green, To Catch a Grinch by Daniel Arzola (World Premiere), […]

Posted on November 15, 2024

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround presents a HITCHCOCK FILM FESTIVAL / Nov 30-Dec 1

In preparation for PlayGround’s upcoming “twisted” holiday show, A Very Hitchcock Christmas, PlayGround is turning Potrero Stage into a cinema for a free HITCHCOCK FILM FESTIVAL, featuring Notorious (1946), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), and The Birds (1963), presented over two days, November 30-December 1, 2024. Reserve your free tickets […]

Posted on November 15, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

November 18 Monday Night PlayGround: Dreams & Nightmares

Each month, from October through March, PlayGround announces a topic to a pre-selected writers pool of Bay Area emerging professional playwrights, inviting submissions of original ten-page plays. The top short plays are selected and presented as script-in-hand staged readings on the third Monday of the month, featuring some of the Bay Area’s best directors and actors. All […]

Posted on October 4, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

AfroSolo Arts Festival 31

AFROSOLO ARTS FESTIVAL 31 presents LET FREEDOM RING!: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK RESILIENCE THROUGH SOLO PERFORMANCES. The event occurs Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26, 2024, 7pm and Sunday, October 27, 2024, 3 pm, at Potrero Stage, 1695 18th Street, in San Francisco, CA. This exhilarating program by the AfroSolo Theatre Company, a haven […]

Posted on September 16, 2024

Jim Kleinmann

6th Annual Innovators Showcase: A Celebration of New Works by New Theatres!

PlayGround has announced the 6th annual Innovators Showcase, a three-week festival of new works by the 2024 Innovator Incubator cohort. The Festival runs November 4-24, 2024 at Potrero Stage and simulcast. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative theatre companies and productions with a strong commitment to historically marginalized or excluded […]