Posted on March 24, 2022
This summer, PlayGround is excited to introduce a new theatre camp housed at PlayGround’s state-of-the-art performance venue, Potrero Stage, and structured around PlayGround’s award-winning model of playwright and play incubation and innovation. Under the coaching of leading local professional theatre artists, campers (ages 7-18) will learn playwriting, directing, and acting skills, write short plays in […]
Posted on March 5, 2022
Golden Thread Productions returns to in-person performances at Potrero Stage with the World Premiere of Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s Drowning in Cairo, April 8-May 1, 2022. Directed by GTP Executive Artistic Director Sahar Assaf, the production features Amin El Gamal, Wiley Naman Strasser, and Martin Zebari. The play was originally presented and partially developed as part […]
Posted on January 13, 2022
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its fifth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 28 to February 13 presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new work features 9 double-bill performances by 11 California artists over three weeks, […]
Posted on November 1, 2021
Society Theatricals under the leadership of Tim Heitman, Producer will present a staged reading of “Living Large” a new musical, Friday, December 10 @ 8 pm; Saturday, December 11 @ 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm; at the Potrero Stage, 1695 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 and simulcast online via Vimeo Live. Award-winning Cindy Goldfield (Trog!) directs “Living […]
Posted on October 1, 2021
PlayGround has announced the programming lineup for the 3rd annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2021 Innovator Incubator Cohort: Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, The Forum Collective, Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project, Latinx Mafia, Native Writers’ Theater, Poltergeist Theatre Project, and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative […]
Posted on September 9, 2021
PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has announced its 28th season, including the return of the celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series on third Mondays*, Oct-Mar, in-person this year at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage and live simulcast (October 18, 2021-March 21, 2022). The season also includes an extensive array of new play programming […]
Posted on September 9, 2021
Crowded Fire Theater returns to in-person theatre with the West Coast Premiere of THE DISPLACED by Isaac Gómez, directed by CFT Artistic Director Mina Morita, with Associate Director Karina Gutiérrez, and featuring Jordan Maria Don and Troy Rockett. Crowded Fire will welcome their community of theater lovers back in-person to the Potrero Stage with this […]
Posted on August 17, 2021
Help double the impact of the Potrero-Dogpatch Performing Arts COVID Relief Fund with your tax-deductible donation! Potrero Hill and Dogpatch area performing arts organizations have been deeply impacted by the pandemic, with no in-person performances for more than a year and performing artists out of work. Even as the City of San Francisco reopens, performing […]
Posted on July 21, 2021
On Monday, September 20, PlayGround will host its annual fundraising gala, commemorating twenty years of the June Anne Baker Prize and the incredible legacy of the twenty women playwrights who’ve received the Prize since 2002. Initiated by PlayGround benefactor John H. Gilman in memory of his late wife, the June Anne Baker Prize recognizes the top […]
Posted on June 25, 2021
Playwrights Foundation presents the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival July 16-25. The 44th annual Festival will premiere online with two weekends of virtual readings. Playwrights Foundation welcomes a new cohort of 5 playwrights in this year’s festival: Jaisey Bates, Miyoko Conley, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, Sam Hamashima, and Johnny G. Lloyd. Festival Lineup when we breathe […]