Posted on January 24, 2025
“I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.” – Pete Seeger Folk music has been inspiring, uniting, and igniting communities for generations. Join us for our annual “musical theatre night” as PlayGround writers incorporate some of […]
Posted on January 19, 2025
PlayGround-NY presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “THE SHAKESPEARE SEQUELS” Presented in association with SoHo Shakespeare Company January 20, 2025 7pm ET Live at The Producers Club + Simulcast ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-NY acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Munsee Lanape, the original inhabitants […]
Posted on January 13, 2025
New York – “We know what we are but not what we may be.” – Ophelia, Hamlet In the spirit of past PlayGround topics such as “Shakespeare’s Prequels” and last year’s “Shakespeare Multiverse, ” PlayGround writers are set to take on a new sector of the Bard’s not-previously-explored canon: THE SHAKESPEARE SEQUELS. What happens after […]
Posted on January 3, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this January! Rebbekah Vega-Romero is making her off-Broadway debut in the leading role of Magnolia in Target Margin Theater’s co-production with NYU Skirball, of a daring reimagining of the seminal musical Show Boat, now re-envisioned as […]
Posted on January 3, 2025
The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Jacob Marx Rice for his short play Oh Christmas Tree, presented as a staged reading at The Producers Club and via livestream on December 23rd. Congratulations, Jacob! Courtesy of Jacob, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Oh Christmas […]
Posted on December 23, 2024
PlayGround-NY presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “HOLIDAY SURPRISE” December 23, 2024 7pm ET Live at The Producers Club + Simulcast ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-NY acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Munsee Lanape, the original inhabitants of the territory colonially known as the five […]
Posted on December 20, 2024
“We know what we are but not what we may be.” – Ophelia, Hamlet In the spirit of past topics such as “Shakespeare’s Prequels” and last year’s “Shakespeare Multiverse, ” PlayGround writers are set to take on a new sector of the Bard’s not-previously-explored canon: THE SHAKESPEARE’S SEQUELS. What happens after that joyous wedding at […]
Posted on December 6, 2024
The people have spoken… The November People’s Choice Award goes to Tré Calhoun for his short play The Banned, presented as a staged reading at The Producers Club and via livestream on November 25th. Congratulations, Tré! Courtesy of Tré, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! The Banned by […]
Posted on December 6, 2024
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this December! Danielle E. Moore will co-headline Breaking Sound / Unpublished’s musical theater composer series at pinkFROG cafe in Brooklyn on Thursday, December 12th, powered by Tixr and Spirit Airlines’s #Music4Miles. The set list will include songs and collaborators from her musicals Audrey, Ink & Paint, […]
Posted on December 3, 2024
At our 30th Anniversary Gala this year, Broadway playwright Jonathan Spector shared, “I don’t know if I would be a playwright today if it weren’t for PlayGround.” For 30 years, PlayGround has provided hundreds of writers their very first opportunity to hear their words out loud. Of course we hope all our playwrights make it to Broadway, but […]