Posted on October 6, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company Members are up to this October! Uma Incrocci’s play Midnight at Pricklemore Mansion — a frisky and scandalous farce that takes place in a haunted house — will have a reading at Morningside Players on Oct 26 at 6pm. Tickets are free. Anya Josephs’, PlayGround Directorial alum, is directing a […]
Posted on September 29, 2025
What happens when RALPHIE Parker and Ethan GRINCH meet on an Amtrak and devise a plan to help each other achieve their biggest holiday desires? Or, how can we bear with the fact that Santa was found dead in a couple’s apartment; but was St. Nick’s untimely death a result of self-defense…or murder?? Enjoy these […]
Posted on September 19, 2025
“The game is afoot.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange The topic for the October 27th Monday Night PlayGround-NY has been announced: MURDER MYSTERY! The event will also serve as PlayGround’s second annual evening of one-person plays. From Sherlock Holmes adventures to true crime podcasts, “who done it” stories are as […]
Posted on September 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this September! New York City’s oldest and longest-running LGBTQIA+ theater company, TOSOS (Artistic Director Mark Finley), presents LET’S TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE, a new dark comedy about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt, written by Anthony Anello. Sixteen performances will be […]
Posted on August 22, 2025
We’re pleased to introduce this year’s One PlayGround Gala NY guest of honor: Mia Chung. Chung is an electrifying, defiant, award-winning playwright. Born in Tarrytown, New York, and raised by Korean parents in San Diego, Chung started as a sketch artist and screenwriter in LA and “sort of fell in love with theater” after moving […]
Posted on August 15, 2025
PlayGround has announced the 2025-26 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of four 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 […]
Posted on August 5, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this August! Julia Brothers will be fighting corporate greed and nuclear waste while making friends and influencing people in Isabella Waldron’s new play Half-Life. Four performances only – August 1, 2 and 3. Produced by the upstart-down-with-the-patriarchy Moxie Arts. Uma Incrocci’s short play The Oyster is […]
Posted on August 1, 2025
In the face of extraordinarily difficult times for theatres nationwide, PlayGround is expanding its programming in four major American cities and expanding career-launching opportunities for theatre artists from across the nation. In support of these efforts and the 500+ actors, writers, directors, and technicians who are supported by PlayGround (and paid union wages), the company […]
Posted on July 27, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 32nd anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2025-26 Writers Pools, 112 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 16, 2025
One of the nation’s oldest and most respected developers of new works for the theatre, PlayGround will mark the conclusion of its 30th Anniversary Season with a four-city gala celebration taking place simultaneously in New York City (Carmine’s Upper West Side), Chicago (Osteria Via Stato), Los Angeles (Rossoblu) and San Francisco (Verdi Club) on Monday, […]