Posted on March 1, 2018
On Monday, April 9, PlayGround will celebrate twenty-four seasons of innovation and the first year anniversary of its new home, Potrero Stage, with the PlayGround Benefit & Awards Night, a special one-night gala fundraiser and performance, featuring some of the Bay Area’s top actors in selected shorts by PlayGround alumni**. The evening begins with a […]
Posted on February 27, 2018
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, in association with U.K.’s Turtle Key Arts, presents the U.S. premiere of Golden Thread Resident Artist Hassan Abdulrazzak’s tour-de-force comedy Love, Bombs & Apples, which played to sold-out houses in London over two extended runs and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Described […]
Posted on February 1, 2018
The west coast premiere of Alice Birch’s REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. will be the first revolutionary production in Crowded Fire’s 20th Anniversary Season of new and contemporary plays. Praised by The Daily Telegraph as “Dazzling in its provocative daring” and “a cluster bomb of subversion,” this new production of REVOLT will feature an […]
Posted on January 3, 2018
Passing Words Theatre Company presents The JMJ Project: Proof of Life, February 1-10 at Potrero Stage. Three unlikely people join together to find a mysterious designer which leads to the revelation of their own dark secrets. The JMJ Project: Proof of Life is a play that examines beliefs of identity, existence and asks what […]
Posted on January 3, 2018
PlayGround will present a celebration of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 11-28 at Potrero Stage. The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival features 36 performances by 8 local artists over three weeks, and will include new works by Lisa Evans, Malcolm Grissom, Marjorie Hazeltine, Michael Phillis, Katie Rubin, Thomas Robert Simpson, Nina […]
Posted on November 30, 2017
The PlayGround Film Festival, a unique showcase of Bay Area films adapted from stage to screen, returns December 15-17 with nine programs and twenty-two different films over three days, at PlayGround’s state-of-the-art Potrero Hill theatre, Potrero Stage. The festival opens on Friday, December 15, 8pm, with a special program of five brand-new short films, each […]
Posted on September 26, 2017
Looking for a venue for your next production? Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays is a fully-equipped 99-seat state-of-the-art black box theatre, operated by PlayGround, and serving as home to some of the Bay Area’s leading new play developers and producers, including PlayGround, Crowded Fire, Golden Thread, and Playwrights Foundation, among others. The theatre, […]
Posted on September 26, 2017
Coming to Potrero Stage this October is Roger Grunwald’s provocative new solo show, THE OBLIGATION, a co-production of The Mitzvah Project and PlayGround. In Roger Grunwald’s THE OBLIGATION a Jewish-American comedian, a survivor, a half-Jewish German soldier and an SS General explore the dark history of their and our world. Through drama and humor, Grunwald […]
Posted on September 12, 2017
Crowded Fire Theater presents the world premiere of Christopher Chen’s A TALE OF AUTUMN, September 14-October 7, 2017 at Potrero Stage. In his inaugural commission as Crowded Fire’s Playwright-in-Residence, Christopher Chen tackles the power structures inherent in large corporations. Set in a parallel world, A TALE OF AUTUMN is a psychological rise-to-power fable. Founded with […]
Posted on August 4, 2017
3Girls Theatre Company (3GT) presents the 6th Annual New Works Festival representing the best of 3GT’s work in developing, producing and promoting original work by women playwrights throughout the year. The 10-day free festival takes place from August 17 to 27, 2017 at the Potrero Stage (formerly Thick House), and is part of PlayGround’s Potrero […]