Posted on October 1, 2019
Night Sky Productions, Debra Mosk & Clown Conservatory present a limited-engagement sneak preview of Sara Moore’s ATOMIC CLOWN, November 21, 22, and 23 at 8pm at Potrero Stage. Tickets are $26.50-$41.50 and available online at https://potrerostage.org/atomicclown. BREAKING NEWS: Due to popular demand, a fourth performance has been added for Sunday, November 24 at 5pm! San […]
Posted on September 4, 2019
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its prestigious ReOrient 2019 Festival of Short Plays with seven fully produced short plays, two panel discussions, and a national convening of Middle Eastern theatre artists. The festival runs October 18-November 17, 2019 at Potrero Stage. […]
Posted on September 4, 2019
Playwright Christina Anderson returns to Crowded Fire with INKED BABY, September 12-October 5, 2019 at Potrero Stage. The second production in Crowded Fire’s 21st season of new and contemporary plays, INKED BABY introduces a world that is at once both familiar and strange, and questions why we hold on to home even when that land […]
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 […]
Posted on July 10, 2019
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast’s premiere launchpad for exceptional emerging playwrights has named the artistic teams and daily schedule for the 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF). The 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival runs July 19-28, 2019 at Potrero Stage at the base of San Francisco’s Potrero hill. In addition to twelve staged readings, the […]
Posted on June 16, 2019
PlayGround has announced the lineup for the inaugural INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, August 1-25, 2019 at Potrero Stage, featuring 25 performances and staged readings of innovative new theatre by the 2019 class of PlayGround’s Innovator Incubator. Highlights of this year’s Showcase include Theatre Cultura’s premiere production of ¡CHEER! Story of a Dreamer (August 1-11), Poltergeist Theatre Project’s […]
Posted on June 16, 2019
Quantum Dragon Theatre, the San Francisco Bay Area’s premiere science-fiction/fantasy theatre company, launches its third season with a production of Ray Bradbury’s own adaptation of his classic science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451. This flagship production, directed by QDT Artistic Director Sam Tillis, will open at the Potrero Stage—located at 1695 18th St, San Francisco—on Saturday, June […]
Posted on April 5, 2019
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to plays from or about the Middle East, stages the U.S. premiere of Hannah Khalil’s James Tait Black Award-nominated play, SCENES FROM 71* YEARS, April 5-May 5 at Potrero Stage, documenting Palestinian life since 1948. Based on interviews with friends and family who have lived in […]
Posted on January 17, 2019
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 3, 2018
Bread & Butter Theatre opens their 2019 season with a sharp, tightly-woven drama by a thrilling American playwright—The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph. As the Boston Globe states, “Joseph has a gift for penetrating to the depths of human nature. As he explores the question of guilt—in all its forms, for all its reasons—there’s barely […]