Posted on April 6, 2021
PlayGround and the Potrero Stage community will celebrate the launch of the new POTRERO STAGERS membership program with a free digital launch party and evening of performances on Saturday, May 1, 7pm-8:15pm PDT via Zoom livestream. Co-hosted by beloved local performers Marga Gomez and Liam Vincent, the event will feature short performances by more than […]
Posted on March 10, 2021
Following the success of last year’s first-ever PlayGround Zoom Fest, PlayGround’s 2021 Festival of New Works returns to the digital realm with even more radical accessibility! The three-week online Festival (May 10-30) will feature the digital premieres of PERFECT by Jonathan Luskin (he/him) and SAPIENCE by Diana Burbano (she/her), the YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT: a full evening of short plays by the Bay Area’s best young dramatists, and BEST […]
Posted on December 23, 2020
PlayGround announces the lineup for its fourth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 22 to February 7 online via Zoom. The festival features 9 double-bill live-streamed performances by California artists over three weeks, including one-night-only featured highlights by Marga Gomez and Sara Moore, and Bay […]
Posted on October 22, 2020
PlayGround has announced an expanded lineup of programming for this year’s 2nd annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2020 Innovator Incubator Cohort: Analog Theatre, The Forum Collective, Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project, Kunoichi Productions, The Moonrisers, Poltergeist Theatre Project, and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative theatre […]
Posted on October 9, 2020
PlayGround announces Potrero Stage’s open availability from November 29, 2021 through January 8, 2023! While Potrero Stage has been closed due to COVID-19 since mid-March, PlayGround is making plans for a safe reopening of the theater in the Summer/Fall of 2021. This will include new procedures for artist and audience check-in under City & County […]
Posted on September 23, 2020
PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has announced that the 27th season of its celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series will move online this year, beginning October 19 at 7pm PT and continuing on third Mondays through March 2021 (the PlayGround-LA Monday Night season will also move online, beginning October 12). […]
Posted on September 16, 2020
Same Boat Theater Collective, a diverse team of Bay Area and international playwrights, directors and actors, will present new environmental justice plays in “EarthQuake: Moving the Earth with Our Voices” a livestream immersive production of readings featuring a global cast for three shows, each at 7PM in San Francisco, London and New Delhi. Tickets are […]
Posted on July 3, 2020
Are you missing live theatre?? PlayGround Zoom Fest, the nation’s largest fully-digital new play festival (originally presented via Zoom live-stream May 11-June 19), is now available on-demand through September 1! The Zoom Fest features readings and premiere presentations of more than 25 short and full-length plays as well as a Zoom Town Hall on PlayGround […]
Posted on July 2, 2020
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast’s premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights announces the lineup for the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring playwrights Tyler English-Beckwith, Stefani Kuo (郭佳怡), Jordan Ramirez Puckett, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, and Noelle Viñas. The 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival runs July 17-26, 2020 in an online format worldwide . The […]
Posted on June 17, 2020
In the American Theatre, we have long been guided by the principle that we can “change the world, one play at a time.” What if it was also one day at a time with the same play? On Friday, Juneteenth, (June 19th), theatre communities around the country will provide their response to the current moment […]