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 […]
Posted on July 8, 2024
Oakland Public Theater is proud to present INVENTORY: James Baldwin Abroad, August 1-4 at Potrero Stage (San Francisco) and August 22-September 1 at BAM House (Oakland), a new theatrical work examining James Baldwin’s personal life and his work. From the churches of Harlem, through expatriation in Europe, into the civil unrest burgeoning out of the […]
Posted on July 5, 2024
The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its eighth year, the next Solo Fest will take place January 24-February 9, 2025, performed live at Potrero Stage and simulcast online, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks. Only California-based artists eligible to submit. PlayGround is interested […]
Posted on June 18, 2024
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the third annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 9-25, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This three-week “fringe style” new works festival features 11 productions from highly sought-after theatre artists from across the country including four PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Ranging in subject from the U.S. […]
Posted on March 8, 2024
Missed a Monday Night PlayGround? We got you! Announcing MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND LIVE, a special in-person screening at Potrero Stage of the entire 30th season of Monday Night PlayGround, offered over two Saturdays, at 6pm, 7:30pm, and 9pm on March 23 and 30. Join fellow PlayGround lovers for performances originally performed for a live audience at […]
Posted on March 8, 2024
PlayGround is offering a free one-day intensive workshop for Bay Area residents (18 and up) interested in entering the field of theatre tech and design. Led by PlayGround resident designer Brittany Mellerson, the workshop will be offered at PlayGround’s home theatre, Potrero Stage, on Saturday, March 23, 12pm-5pm PT, and repeated on Saturday, March 30, […]