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PlayCo is launching a new initiative. PlayCo will, over the next two years, send nine American playwrights to residencies with esteemed international theater companies.

PlayCo, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Flea, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater will present a one-week extension of their New York premiere of AMMIGONE, stylized as Amm(i)gone, created, co-directed, and performed by Adil Mansoor. Learn more!

PlayCo and WP Theater have revealed the cast of their world premiere co-production of Corinne Jaber’s Munich Medea: Happy Family.

PlayCo and WP Theater have revealed the dates for the world premiere production of Corinne Jaber's 'Munich Medea: Happy Family,' directed by Lee Sunday Evans, from January 30 to February 25.

PlayCo today will present a series of Idea Lab conversations (September 15-19) and a special benefit performance (October 4) to be held during the company’s world premiere production of 9 Kinds of Silence, written and directed by Abhishek Majumdar. 

Get ready for the world premiere of Abhishek Majumdar's KINDS OF SILENCE at PlayCo Theater. Witness the internationally acclaimed production that has been making waves in the theater industry. Don't miss this groundbreaking play during its run.

PlayCo has shared details for two bracing future world premiere productions, and a revamped website linking audiences with its vital past as well as current feature articles and interviews. 

PlayCo has extended Sarah Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and presented with Clubbed Thumb.

PlayCo has announced the cast and creative team of Sarah Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch, a playful comedy surrounding a group of public defenders’ occasionally outsized emotional investment in the meals they share, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and presented with Clubbed Thumb.

Ars Nova and PlayCo will present the world premiere of HOUND DOG by 2019 Ars Nova resident artist Melis Aker. Directed by Machel Ross with music by Aker and the Lazours, this cross-cultural jam-session-meets-play explores the winding path towards forgiveness and belonging.

PlayCo has announced its programming through 2023—three plays that, in radically disparate styles, offer generous and probing explorations of human connection across the complexities of geopolitics, cultural identity, and elaborate workplace lunches.

PlayCo will present the U.S. premiere of Ebru Nihan Celkan’s Will You Come With Me?, directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant, May 4-June 5 at MITU580 (580 Sackett St Unit A - Ground Fl, Brooklyn).

PlayCo and Por Piedad Teatro’s filmed theatrical version of Django in Pain, a new play written by Antonio Vega and created by Ana Graham & Vega, with original music by Cristóbal MarYán, will run October 5-19, on-demand, as part of 59E59 Theaters Plays In Place program.

PlayCo presents the culminating events of their 2021 Residency for Black Women Theatre Makers, a four-month period of process-oriented creative support provided to artists from around the world.

The series' final performance for the first time invites a limited number of in-person audiences to experience the work, at a special surprise location in Bushwick, Brooklyn on June 29 at 7pm.

PlayCo presents William Burke's Is it Supposed to Last?, an iterative performance series co-directed by Burke and Bryn Herdrich and presented live in monthly installments beginning January 28.

The Third Edition of the Italian & American Playwrights Project (IAPP) takes place on Monday, December 14, 2020 at 4:30pm on Howlround.

New York theatre curators Valeria Orani and Frank Hentschker will host the Third Edition of the Italian & American Playwrights Project (IAPP) on Monday, December 14, 2020, 4:30 pm. All Italian playwrights will join the conversation in English or in translation.

Amir Nizar Zuabi's This Is Who I Am, directed by Evren Odcikin, opens officially on Sunday, December 13, at 4pm EST. This world premiere run of the play-all performances of which take place live-now runs December 5 - January 3.

PlayCo has announced the first installment of plays in its 2020-2021 season, kicking off the company's 20th year with works that continue and complement its legacy of showcasing bold international and American playwrights whose works electrify with their immediacy and challenge with their complexity.