Posted on January 1, 2026
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company Members are up to this January including: Dana Leslie Goldstein, Tia Cassmira, Jully Lee, Bailey Jordan Garcia, andAustin Ku. In January, Dana Leslie Goldstein‘s short play HUNGRY will be presented by Breakthrough Theatre Company in Winter Park, FL. Dana’s full-length play GO DOWN, MOSES will have a concert reading […]
Posted on December 29, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator, has announced five new offerings as a part of its revamped education program for adults. The workshops and masterclasses will be lead by acclaimed playwrights Jonathan Spector, (Tony Award-Winner, Eureka Day), Lydia R. Diamond (Broadway: Toni Stone, Stick Fly), Steve Yockey (Emmy Nominee & Multiple NNPN Rolling World Premieres), […]
Posted on December 19, 2025
“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” -Plato The topic for the January 26th Monday Night PlayGround-NY has been announced: TALES OF THE CITY. Playwrights in the PlayGround-NY Writers Pool have been invited to generate an original short play, fictional or fact-based, historical or contemporary, that is specific to […]
Posted on December 18, 2025
The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Claire Abramovitz for her play Phantom of the Slopera, presented as a staged reading at The Producers Club and via livestream on December 8, 2025. Congratulations, Claire! Courtesy of Claire, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Phantom of […]
Posted on December 6, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company Members are up to this December including Bailey Jordan Garcia, Jully Lee, and Dana Leslie Goldstein. Bailey Jordan Garcia is playing a middle-schooler with a lot of teenaged angst in Emilia Harrison Daniel’s “IF THE WORLD REALLY ENDS ON FRIDAY”. Synopsis: “In December 2012, the world was supposed to […]
Posted on December 5, 2025
PlayGround-NY presents Season 5 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Musical Parody” December 8, 2025 7pm ET The Producers Club & Vimeo Live 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 boroughs […]
Posted on November 18, 2025
The people have spoken… The 2025 October People’s Choice Award goes to Ash for their play Happy Birthday, Beatrice, presented as a staged reading at The Producers Club and via livestream on October 27th. Congratulations, Ash! Courtesy of Ash, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Happy Birthday, Beatrice Written […]
Posted on November 4, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company Members are up to this November including Julia Brothers, Lyra Nalan, Howard Ho, Jackson Bradshaw. Julia Brothers is playing Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt at Florida Rep through Nov 16th. Aside from getting to do this extraordinary play and role, it is doubly meaningful because Julia’s father, John Brothers, […]
Posted on October 31, 2025
Ever dreamed of seeing your name in lights (or at least on a playbill)? Now’s your chance to step into the spotlight as a producer! This holiday season PlayGround-LA invites you to help us create some “twisted” holiday magic by becoming an Honorary Producer of A Very Hitchcock Christmas! Happening at Potrero Stage in San […]
Posted on October 31, 2025
“I’ll blow the Gershwin up because I AM the loudest WITCH IN OZ! And, no one’s gonna turn my volume doooown!” – Forbidden Broadway The topic for the December 8th Monday Night PlayGround-NY has been announced: MUSICAL PARODY! The event will also serve as PlayGround’s annual “musical theatre night.” We love musicals, we really do. But sometimes […]