Posted on August 1, 2025
In the face of extraordinarily difficult times for theatres nationwide, PlayGround is expanding its programming in four major American cities and expanding career-launching opportunities for theatre artists from across the nation. In support of these efforts and the 500+ actors, writers, directors, and technicians who are supported by PlayGround (and paid union wages), the company […]
Posted on July 27, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 32nd anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2025-26 Writers Pools, 112 early-career playwrights in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, who will participate in PlayGround’s signature incubator program, […]
Posted on July 16, 2025
One of the nation’s oldest and most respected developers of new works for the theatre, PlayGround will mark the conclusion of its 30th Anniversary Season with a four-city gala celebration taking place simultaneously in New York City (Carmine’s Upper West Side), Chicago (Osteria Via Stato), Los Angeles (Rossoblu) and San Francisco (Verdi Club) on Monday, […]
Posted on July 3, 2025
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this July! Jennie Webb’s “Women, Birds, Stars” received a reading as part of the Playwrights Union First Peek reading series on Friday, June 13th. Directed by Marya Mazor, the reading featured Jayne Taini, Camillia Monet, Shirley Jordan, Angela Bullock & Melody Butiu. “Women, Birds, […]
Posted on June 6, 2025
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the five playwrights who will receive paid commissions to adapt their award-winning short plays into evening-length works over the next year: Anne Brady, Madeleine Butler, Laura Domingo, Baylee Shlichtman, and Camron Wright! Each playwright will take part in the 2025-26 residency and receive readings and other development opportunities over the […]
Posted on June 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this June! Abel Marquez’s full-length play, My Brother’s Keeper, will be produced by Bethesda Repertory Theatre as a Guest Production at Boston Court Pasadena June 13th-15th, with evening and matinee performances. Below is a blurb about the play: Abel and David are brothers who […]
Posted on May 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this May! Director Cybelle Kaehler is helming a staged reading of All The Things She Never Said at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s New Works Festival, running May 17–25. The powerful play explores family secrets and real-life history, focusing on the Madrigal 10, a group of […]
Posted on April 11, 2025
PlayGround-LA presents Season 13 BEST OF PLAYGROUND(LA) ’25 April 14th, 2025 7pm PT The 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 April 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this April! Aaron Higareda’s play You Don’t Even Speak Spanish! will be produced at Cal State San Bernardino (April 25 – May 4). This Chicano farce follows a first-gen college student who unknowingly falls for an FBI agent trying to entrap him. Purchase tickets […]
Posted on March 28, 2025
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2025-26 Producing Fellowship, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a living. Candidates must […]