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 […]
Posted on August 7, 2018
Looking for a space for your next show? Potrero Stage is taking requests through December 27, 2020, with priority given to producers of new plays and those booking three or more consecutive weeks. Nonprofit licensing rates are currently $2,000 per week ($500 per day). As of October 1, 2018, licensing rates will increase to $2,500 […]
Posted on April 3, 2018
On Saturday night, April 7th at 8PM, an ensemble of performers directed by Nina Wise will present Stories in Motion, an evening of improvised theater, at Potrero Stage. Corey Fisher describes Motion Theater like this: Motion Theater “is word-jazz composed on the spot with the whole body. We weave stories around themselves until their meanings […]
Posted on March 1, 2018
On Monday, April 9, PlayGround will celebrate twenty-four seasons of innovation and the first year anniversary of its new home, Potrero Stage, with the PlayGround Benefit & Awards Night, a special one-night gala fundraiser and performance, featuring some of the Bay Area’s top actors in selected shorts by PlayGround alumni**. The evening begins with a […]
Posted on February 27, 2018
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, in association with U.K.’s Turtle Key Arts, presents the U.S. premiere of Golden Thread Resident Artist Hassan Abdulrazzak’s tour-de-force comedy Love, Bombs & Apples, which played to sold-out houses in London over two extended runs and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Described […]