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 […]
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 […]