Posted on November 24, 2023
“You guys give up? Or are you thirsty for more?”- Kevin McCallister, Home Alone (1990) Come celebrate the holidays PlayGround-style at our next round of Monday Night PlayGround, December 11, 7PM PT, live at Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast online, featuring original short plays inspired by the prompt “Surviving the Holidays”. PlayGround-LA’s sister companies, PlayGround, PlayGround-NY, and […]
Posted on November 12, 2023
PlayGround-LA presents Season 12 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “The Legacy of the Land We Inhabit” November 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 […]
Posted on November 3, 2023
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Maria D. Smith for her play Politics: A Mind Bending Reflection, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on October 9th live at the Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Maria! Courtesy of Maria, we’re pleased to share the […]
Posted on October 20, 2023
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass” PlayGround welcomes you to join us for the next round of Monday Night PlayGround, presented on Monday, November 20, 7PM PT, live at Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast online. Produced in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO) as […]
Posted on October 8, 2023
PlayGround-LA presents Season 12 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Origin Story” October 9th, 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 Angeles. As the past […]
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 […]