PlayGround’s A Very Hitchcock Christmas returns for its fourth year December 6–7, 2025. The darkly comic holiday tradition features five short plays inspired by Hitchcock classics, live at Potrero Stage in San Francisco and simulcast nationwide.
San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) continue their collaborative workshop series The Opera in You, offering free writing and storytelling workshops for the public from July through October 2025.
One of the nation’s oldest, most respected, and largest developer of new works for the theatre, PlayGround marked its third decade of incubating new plays by hosting simultaneous parties in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco on Monday, September 16, 2024.
One of the nation’s oldest and most respected developers of new works for the theatre, PlayGround will mark its third decade of incubating new plays by hosting simultaneous parties in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco on Monday, September 16, 2024. Learn how to attend.
The second season of The Opera in You, San Francisco Opera’s free storytelling workshop series presented in partnership with San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), will culminate with The Opera in You: Season Finale Showcase on Saturday, June 15 at 3 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium at SFPL’s Main Library.
Join the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Public Library for 'The Opera in You' Storytelling Workshops running from March to May.
Playwrights Foundation announces cohort and finalists for Resident Playwrights Program, offering a two-year residency to Bay Area playwrights for artistic growth and career advancement. Meet the selected playwrights: Cat Brooks, Ruben Grijalva, Sloka Krishnan, and Leigh M. Marshall.
Join PlayGround on November 20th at 7PM PT for an evening of original short plays inspired by 'The Legacy of the Land We Inhabit.' Don't miss this opportunity to experience thought-provoking performances that bring awareness to land acknowledgment. Reserve your tickets now!
PlayGround blasts into its 30th 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 inspired by the prompt 'Origin Story', Monday, October 16.
An original piece written by San Francisco based playwright Christian Wilburn, “Starlight” will have a one night only staged reading on Saturday, July 8th 2023.
PlayGround has announced the full lineup for its 27th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, running May 8-28, in-person at Potrero Stage, where the festival has been based since 2008, and simulcast online.
San Francisco Opera's free storytelling workshop series, The Opera in You, a new program offered during the Company's current Centennial Season, culminates with a free public storytelling event, The Opera in You: Season Finale Showcase, on Saturday, April 22 at 2 p.m. at the Green Room in the Veterans Building.
San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) fuse the storied art form of opera with the art of storytelling in The Opera in You, which invites the public to discover their own operatic tales as part of the Company's historic Centennial Season. This series of free memoir writing and storytelling workshops led by experienced teachers will be held at library branches throughout San Francisco in the coming months (see full schedule and locations below).
PlayGround, California's leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has announced its 29th season, including the return of the celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series on third Mondays,* October - March, in-person this year at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage and live simulcast.
It is safe to say this is a great festival, and well worth your time over the weekend. Happy ten years to FADE TO BLACK! Here’s hoping for many more decades to come.
Special Offer - PREPARE TO GET FADED! THE 10TH SEASON OF FADE TO BLACK PLAY FESTIVAL RETURNS NEXT WEEK!
PlayGround has announced the full lineup for its 26th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, running May 9-29, returning for in-person performances at Potrero Stage, where the festival has been based since 2008, and, new this year, all simulcast online.
San Francisco's new works incubator PlayGround in partnership with Bay Area theatre veteran Aldo Billingslea, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Planet Earth Arts, and more than 30 leading theatres from the Bay Area and beyond team up to present a Juneteenth livestreamed Zoom reading of Vincent Terrell Durham's thrilling and timely play, Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids.
In light of curfew orders throughout the Bay Area PlayGround has moved the showtime of its Saturday, June 6 opening night performance of Genevieve Jessee's The Rendering Cycle to 5pm PT.
PlayGround, San Francisco's premier theatre development lab, is hosting the nation's largest fully digital new play festival PlayGround Zoom Fest presented May 11 through June 14, 2020.
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