Posted on September 23, 2020
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’ leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has announced that the 9th season of its celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series will move online this year, beginning October 12 at 7pm PT and continuing on second Mondays through March 2021 (PlayGround-LA’s sister company, PlayGround, will run on third Mondays, also online). […]
Posted on August 22, 2020
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’ leading playwright incubator, is now looking for the next generation of great directors. PlayGround-LA will select 3-4 diverse aspiring and/or early-career directors to apprentice with PlayGround-LA during the upcoming Monday Night PlayGround season, kicking off October 12 and continuing through March 8, 2021, all online and socially distanced via Zoom live stream. […]
Posted on July 7, 2020
PlayGround-LA has announced the recipient of its 2020 PlayGround-LA play commission: Daysha Veronica. Over the next year, Daysha will expand her ten-minute play, Mother Earth Day, into a new full-length play. Originally written for the March 9, 2020 Monday Night PlayGround “Planet Earth Arts Night”, the short play was the March People’s Choice Award winner […]
Posted on March 30, 2020
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s incubator for a new generation of playwrights, caps off its eighth season on Monday evening, April 20, with Best of PlayGround-LA, a one-night gala celebration of the best playwrights and short plays selected from more than 150 submissions and 36 works developed as part of the season’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading […]
Posted on March 30, 2020
UPDATE: The submission deadline to apply for the 2020-21 Writers Pool has been extended to 11:59pm on June 15, 2020. Are you a Los-Angeles-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround-LA is seeking applications […]
Posted on February 28, 2020
“For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.” – Pablo Neruda PlayGround-LA concludes Season 8 of Monday Night PlayGround on Monday, March 9, with Planet Earth Arts Night, the 6th annual collaboration on the development of new environmental plays. Members of the 2019-20 PlayGround-LA Writers Pool have just four-and-a-half days to generate […]
Posted on February 1, 2020
I’ll be there for you (When the rain starts to pour) I’ll be there for you (Like I’ve been there before) I’ll be there for you (‘Cause you’re there for me too) – I’ll Be There for You (“Friends” Theme) by The Rembrandts (1994) For the next round of Monday Night PlayGround, PlayGround-LA brings back […]
Posted on January 3, 2020
Before HAMLET, ROMEO & JULIET and RICHARD III, there were “The Shakespeare Prequels”! PlayGround-LA kicks off the first Monday Night PlayGround of 2020 on Monday, January 13, 8pm at the Broadwater Main Stage with staged readings of six original ten-minute plays, each inspired by and serving as a prequel to a noted work of Shakespeare, […]
Posted on November 29, 2019
PlayGround-LA celebrates the holidays PlayGround-style on Monday, December 9, 8 PM at the Broadwater Main Stage with the next round in its celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series. The topic for the December round, announced this morning, is “GIFT EXCHANGE”. “For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has […]
Posted on November 1, 2019
PlayGround-LA continues its 8th season on Monday, November 11, 8 PM at the Broadwater Main Stage with the next round in its celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series. The topic for the November round, announced this morning, is “ANTHROPOMORPH”. “Let’s build a happy little cloud. Let’s build some happy little trees.” ― Bob Ross […]