A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS Returns to PlayGround for Its Fourth Year
by A.A. Cristi - September 29, 2025
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....
MADE IN AMERICA? By Yide Cai to Premiere at PlayGround's 2025 Free-Play Festival
by Emmy Rice - August 09, 2025
This August, PlayGround will present the West Coast premiere of Made in America?, a bold new solo play by award-winning playwright Yide Cai, as part of the 2025 Free-Play Festival....
AL'S CULT by Melina Cohen-Bramwell Premiering at Potrero Stage
by Emmy Rice - August 03, 2025
Performances for Al's Cult are August 21 through August 24 at Portrero Stage, 1695 18th Street, San Francisco CA 94107. ...
ANAK NI TAPIA: LEAVING MOTHER Comes To San Francisco
by Emmy Rice - July 26, 2025
Following a series of celebrated performances in Chicago, Milan, Hollywood, and Toronto, Chicago-based playwright and performer Lani T. Montreal brings her powerful solo show, Anak ni Tapia: Leaving Mother, to San Francisco's FREE PLAY FESTIVAL this August....
PlayGround's 2025 Free-Play Festival Returns to Potrero Stage This August
by A.A. Cristi - June 10, 2025
PlayGround will conclude its summer season with the fourth annual Free-Play Festival, running August 1–24, 2025, at Potrero Stage and online via simulcast.
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PlayGround's 7TH INNOVATOR INCUBATOR Now Accepting Applications
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 18, 2025
PlayGround has launched the call for the 7th annual cohort for the National Innovator Incubator program. Learn more about the color and see how to apply here....
AZAD (THE RABBIT AND THE WOLF) World Premiere to be Presented at Potrero Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 18, 2025
Golden Thread Productions will present the world premiere of AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf). Featuring folk music, oral storytelling, video projection, and movement. Learn more!...
Golden Thread Productions and Hakawati NGO to Present AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf)
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 14, 2025
Golden Thread Productions and Hakawati NGO will present the world premiere of AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf). Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets....
Golden Thread Productions Reveals 2025 Season of Solidarity
by Stephi Wild - January 30, 2025
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, has announced its 2025 Season titled “Threads of Solidarity.” Learn more here!...
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SNOW: [black Man. Whiteout Conditions.] Premieres At PlayGround SF's SoloFest
by A.A. Cristi - January 24, 2025
The provocative and entertaining play, SNOW: [black man. white out conditions] premieres as part of PlayGround's 8th Annual Solo Performance Festival....
Past Shows
Anak ni Tapia: Leaving Mother
8/8 - 8/10/2025
A queer Filipina immigrant reckons with memory, identity, and the legacy of her larger-than-life celebrity mother in this intimate, multimedia theatrical experience.
LA CUCARACHA
8/1 - 8/3/2025
Orange predator Sam from the US invades a celebration of life in Mexico. June bug Salma joins bug-loving human Lila to lead the resistance.
PlayGround Festival: Best of PlayGround(SF)'25
5/24 - 5/25/2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(SF) ‘25. Originally developed among thirty-six ...
PlayGround Festival Staged Readings
5/9 - 5/19/2025
PlayGround Festival of New Works FESTIVAL STAGED READINGS A Look at Tomorrow’s Great Plays Today! May 9, May 12, May 16 & May 19 7pm ...
PlayGround Festival Premiere: The Passing Storm
5/17 - 5/18/2025
ABOUT THE PLAY: A man trapped in a deadly storm during his ascent of Mount Everest must wrestle with ghosts of the past—both figurative and ...
The Passing Storm
5/17 - 5/18/2025
PlayGround Festival of New Works THE PASSING STORM by Jessica June Rowe (a Festival Premiere Presentation) Directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza May 17 & ...
PlayGround Festival Premiere: Work/Shoot
5/10 - 5/11/2025
ABOUT THE PLAY: Maya Money, Aurora, and Farrah Fenix fight to find what's real in the "heightened" world of professional wrestling. Featuring: L Duarte, Krystle ...
Hear from five of the playwrights featured in this year’s Festival of New Works! Join Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann in conversation with PlayGround playwright alumni. ...
Private
3/17 - 4/2/2023
80 mins. No Intermission. WRITTEN BY MONA PIRNOT DIRECTED BY PETER J KUO 2023 Helen Hayes Nominee for Outstanding New Play or Musical A searing ...
Skylight
1/12 - 1/21/2023
Bread & Butter Theatre returns to Potrero Stage with David Hare’s Tony and Olivier award-winning play Skylight. Broadway and the West End applauded this intensely ...
Charles Darwin, Her True Story
11/18 - 11/20/2022
Charles Darwin, Her True Story celebrates Latin American revolutionaries and the revolutionary potential that we all carry within. It is January 1, 2001 in the ...
Breed or Bust
9/9 - 9/24/2022
PlayGround has announced a limited run of the Hollywood Fringe hit, BREED OR BUST by Joyful Raven, directed by Jael Weisman. Following a one-night performance ...
Free-Play Festival
8/26 - 8/28/2022
PlayGround closes out the summer season with a new free festival of new plays by the PlayGround community, FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 26-28, at Potrero Stage ...
Bay Area Playwrights Festival
8/5 - 8/7/2022
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coasts premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights, is presenting the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring five new ...
Bay Area Playwrights Festival
8/5 - 8/7/2022
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coasts premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights, is presenting the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring five new ...
Bay Area Playwrights Festival
7/29 - 8/7/2022
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coasts premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights, is presenting the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring five new ...
BEST OF PLAYGROUND 26
5/14 - 6/30/2022
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected plays and playwrights for our 26th annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND 26! Please join us in ...
The Obligation
10/11 - 11/4/2018
Internationally acclaimed actor Roger Grunwald explores a world gone mad in The Obligation, his riveting and immersive one-person drama. Directed by Bay Area Theatre Critics ...
Videos
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Cinderella
Hillbarn Theatre (12/4 - 12/28) | |
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anthropology
City Lights Theater Company (5/14 - 6/7) | |
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Not A Genuine Black Man
City Lights Theater Company (1/25 - 1/25) | |
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An Evening with a Mentalist: Jay Alexander's Mind Tricks Live
San Francisco Magic Theater (w/Jay Alexander) at the Marrakech (1/23 - 1/25) | |
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The Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party
The Cow Palace (11/22 - 12/21) | |
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Sing You a Merry Christmas at Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral (12/13 - 12/13) | |
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An Evening with a Mentalist: Jay Alexander's Mind Tricks Live
San Francisco Magic Theater (w/Jay Alexander) at the Marrakech (1/9 - 1/11) | |
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“After Sleepwalking: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers”
Piedmont Piano Company, 1728 San Pablo Ave (1/25 - 1/25) | |
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