Posted on August 7, 2018
Looking for a space for your next show? Potrero Stage is taking requests through December 27, 2020, with priority given to producers of new plays and those booking three or more consecutive weeks. Nonprofit licensing rates are currently $2,000 per week ($500 per day). As of October 1, 2018, licensing rates will increase to $2,500 […]
Posted on April 3, 2018
On Saturday night, April 7th at 8PM, an ensemble of performers directed by Nina Wise will present Stories in Motion, an evening of improvised theater, at Potrero Stage. Corey Fisher describes Motion Theater like this: Motion Theater “is word-jazz composed on the spot with the whole body. We weave stories around themselves until their meanings […]
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 […]