Posted on September 22, 2023
“A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” – Marcus Garvey, political activist PlayGround blasts into its 12th season of innovative new plays by taking you back to before the beginning! Join us for a new round of Monday Night PlayGround, featuring original short plays all […]
Posted on September 1, 2023
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the 30th season of Monday Night PlayGround, the nation’s longest-running and most celebrated staged reading series, now available in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, NYC and Chicago, both in-person and simulcast. The season kicks off at Hollywood’s Broadwater Theaters on October 9, 2023 and concludes April 1, 2024 at […]
Posted on August 12, 2023
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s leading incubator for a new generation of playwrights, is pleased to announce the Season 12 Writer Pool, competitively chosen from open applications of short plays, and its plans for the 2023-24 Season. Over the course of the upcoming 2023-24 season, these writers will generate over 150 original short plays, of which 36 […]
Posted on March 24, 2023
PlayGround-LA is thrilled to announce the selected plays and playwrights for our eleventh annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND-LA GALA! Please join us in congratulating first-time Best of PlayGround-LA writers Esther Banegas Gatica, Bailey Jordan Garcia and Michael B. Kaplan, and returning “Best of” playwrights M.J. Kang, Mildred Inez Lewis and Ayesha Siddiqui. For […]
Posted on March 20, 2023
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Mildred Inez Lewis for her play Louisiana Shoal, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 13th live at the Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Mildred! Courtesy of Mildred, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from […]
Posted on March 10, 2023
PlayGround-LA presents Season 11 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND PLANET EARTH ARTS NEW PLAY FESTIVAL “GRIEF AND HOPE FOR PLANET EARTH” March 13th, 2023 7pm PT Broadwater Second Stage & Vimeo Live Simulcast ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-LA acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Chumash, Tongva, and Kizh […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
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 for the 2023-24 (Season 12) Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to write for the Monday […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Nicki Spencer for her play Ssssuperbly Normal, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 13th live at the Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Nicki! Courtesy of Nicki, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.” – Rumi. Playwright incubator PlayGround-LA in partnership with Planet Earth Arts has announced the prompt for the sixth and final Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 11th season and the 7th annual Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival, […]
Posted on February 10, 2023
PlayGround-LA presents Season 11 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND ADAPT A CLASSIC FOLKTALE OR MYTH” February 13th, 2023 7pm PT Broadwater Second Stage & Vimeo Live Simulcast ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-LA acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Chumash, Tongva, and Kizh (“keech”), the original inhabitants of Los […]