Posted on July 10, 2019
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast’s premiere launchpad for exceptional emerging playwrights has named the artistic teams and daily schedule for the 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF). The 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival runs July 19-28, 2019 at Potrero Stage at the base of San Francisco’s Potrero hill. In addition to twelve staged readings, the […]
Posted on June 16, 2019
PlayGround has announced the lineup for the inaugural INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, August 1-25, 2019 at Potrero Stage, featuring 25 performances and staged readings of innovative new theatre by the 2019 class of PlayGround’s Innovator Incubator. Highlights of this year’s Showcase include Theatre Cultura’s premiere production of ¡CHEER! Story of a Dreamer (August 1-11), Poltergeist Theatre Project’s […]
Posted on June 16, 2019
Quantum Dragon Theatre, the San Francisco Bay Area’s premiere science-fiction/fantasy theatre company, launches its third season with a production of Ray Bradbury’s own adaptation of his classic science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451. This flagship production, directed by QDT Artistic Director Sam Tillis, will open at the Potrero Stage—located at 1695 18th St, San Francisco—on Saturday, June […]
Posted on April 5, 2019
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to plays from or about the Middle East, stages the U.S. premiere of Hannah Khalil’s James Tait Black Award-nominated play, SCENES FROM 71* YEARS, April 5-May 5 at Potrero Stage, documenting Palestinian life since 1948. Based on interviews with friends and family who have lived in […]
Posted on January 17, 2019
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 December 3, 2018
Bread & Butter Theatre opens their 2019 season with a sharp, tightly-woven drama by a thrilling American playwright—The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph. As the Boston Globe states, “Joseph has a gift for penetrating to the depths of human nature. As he explores the question of guilt—in all its forms, for all its reasons—there’s barely […]
Posted on November 16, 2018
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its second annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a celebration of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 24-February 10 at Potrero Stage. The festival features 12 double-bill performances by 11 local artists over three weeks, including new works by Ron Campbell, Julie Gieseke, Malcolm Grissom, Emil Guillermo, […]
Posted on November 16, 2018
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, responds to our current political divide with We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War, a play that takes the form of a literal conversation on stage. While trying to navigate the currents of the Pacific, an Arab-American woman and her nephew, […]
Posted on October 4, 2018
Back by popular demand, The Obligation, Roger Grunwald’s riveting, immersive one-person stage drama, returns to Potrero Stage for a four-week limited engagement, October 11-November 4, 2018. Written and performed by internationally acclaimed actor Roger Grunwald and directed by Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award winner Nancy Carlin, this celebrated work interweaves the stories of a […]
Posted on August 14, 2018
Young Jean Lee (author of 2016’s THE SHIPMENT) returns to Crowded Fire with CHURCH, the second revolutionary production in Crowded Fire’s 20th Anniversary Season of new and contemporary plays. CHURCH runs at the Potrero Stage, 1695 18th Street in San Francisco September 13 through October 6 (press opening Monday, September 17). In CHURCH, Young […]