Posted on February 20, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Posted on September 4, 2024
PERFORMERS UNDER STRESS presents Interrogations: Pre-Election Coverage, three short plays by Harold Pinter and Nirmala Nataraj. Comprised of The New World Order and One for the Road by Harold Pinter and People of the Shifting Sands by Nirmala Nataraj, the production runs October 3-20, 2024 at Potrero Stage (opening night is October 5). Tickets are […]
Posted on August 26, 2024
(SAN FRANCISCO) PlayGround has announced two encore productions stemming from the third annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL: BEST OF FREE-PLAY will run September 6-7, at Potrero Stage and simulcast, and will feature BLACK BASTARD by Jon Joseph Gentry (Sep 6th 6pm & Sep 7th at 8pm) and STARE INTO THE VOID AND YOU’LL SEE STARS by Kaz […]