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 […]
Posted on April 14, 2020
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 March 6, 2020
UPDATED (6/24/20): Same Boat Theater Collective, the Bay Area’s first environmental justice theater company and a participant in the inaugural PlayGround Innovator Incubator, presents their debut production, the world premiere of THE EMERYVILLE HORROR: A TALE OF ENVIRONMENTAL VENGEANCE in a full livestream immersive production featuring a global cast from San Francisco, Los Angeles, New […]
Posted on February 3, 2020
Crowded Fire begins its 22nd season with the American premiere of Sedef Ecer’s ON THE PERIPHERY in a new English translation by Evren Odcikin, directed by Erin Gilley. A co-production with Golden Thread Productions, the show runs February 23-April 4, 2020 at Potrero Stage. Ecer’s On the Periphery paints a tender portrayal of the lives […]
Posted on December 14, 2019
Bread & Butter Theatre returns to Potrero Stage with the World Premiere of Lana Palmer’s FUNERAL GAME. Artistic Director Bruce Avery directs this two-person play about memory and omission, love and grief, lost and found, and the overwhelming power of family history. For tickets and more information, visit http://breadandbuttertheatre.com/funeral-game/. The cast features Emma Attwood and […]