Posted on October 25, 2024
“You see things; and say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw Aspiration! Deflation. Largest hopes, deepest fears. Dreams and nightmares (this month’s prompt!) appear while we sleep and also while we’re awake – motivating us, scaring us, pushing us to be or become our […]
Posted on October 25, 2024
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Steve Harper for his play, Excuse Me, Sir, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on October 14th live at Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Steve! Courtesy of Steve, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from […]
Posted on October 11, 2024
PlayGround-LA presents Season 13 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “The American Experiment” October 14th, 2024 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 […]
Posted on October 2, 2024
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this October! Tamadhur Al-Aqeel, Emily Brauer Rogers, and Jennie Webb are all having staged readings of as part of Company of Angels’ New Works Festival: October 18-27. Jennie’s play Wound Care: a crack baby reparations play (written during a PlayGround 2023-2024 Residency), directed by […]
Posted on September 20, 2024
“The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness.” – George Washington, January 9, 1790 Join us in kicking off our 13th Season with a Monday Night full of the stories you thought you knew and the stories you never knew – until now – inspired by […]
Posted on September 17, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th Anniversary Season – PlayGround’s signature Monday Night PlayGround, the nation’s longest-running and largest staged reading series – performed in-person and simulcast in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and Chicago, October 14, 2024 through April 7, […]
Posted on September 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this September! Michael P. Adams‘s play “Happy Merry” fill be featured in two festivals. The first is currently running at the Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria, CA, and will close the weekend of September 6. The second is being produced by the organization A Light […]
Posted on August 26, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2024-25 Writers Pools, 144 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 26, 2024
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this August! Jon Gentry’s Black Bastard will return for two Encore performances on August 4th and August 10th at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theater after a sold-out run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The show then heads to San Francisco for a three-performance run […]
Posted on July 18, 2024
PlayGround has announced the 2024-25 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of seven next-gen theatre leaders drawn from across the country and who will work with PlayGround’s artistic staff and national producing teams over the next year in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Fellows gain hands-on experience in the […]