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, […]
Posted on July 3, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this July! Dana Leslie Goldstein’s play FRAGILE will be included in The Road Theatre Company’s Summer Play Festival in L.A. in late July. Dana’s short play FRIENDLY SKIES, which was part of Best of PlayGround in 2023, will be produced by The Gulfport Players in Tampa, […]
Posted on June 6, 2025
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the five playwrights who will receive paid commissions to adapt their award-winning short plays into evening-length works over the next year: Anne Brady, Madeleine Butler, Laura Domingo, Baylee Shlichtman, and Camron Wright! Each playwright will take part in the 2025-26 residency and receive readings and other development opportunities over the […]
Posted on June 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this June! Christian Missonak’s new 10 minute play “Flight Plan” will premiere at Bloom! 10 Minute Play Festival, presented by Daisy Theatricals, at Studio 3 of New York City Center June 1st at 7:30pm. Click here for tickets. Madi Fabber’s play “crabby” will be performed as […]
Posted on May 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this May! Dana Leslie Goldstein’s short play HELLO—the non-musical version of her award-winning Hello In There—will be part of Healing Voices at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ. Another short piece, SERIOUS, will be performed at The Breman Museum and Cultural Center in Atlanta, GA, while her […]
Posted on April 25, 2025
PlayGround-NY presents Season 4 BEST OF PLAYGROUND(NY) ’25 April 28th, 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 of […]
Posted on April 3, 2025
PlayGround-NY, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(NY) ‘25. Originally developed among thirty-six new short plays through PlayGround-NY’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, these plays will receive a special one-night encore performance on April 28, 2025 at 7pm ET at The Producers […]
Posted on April 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this April! Betsy Rosen is performing as Richard Parker, the Bengal Tiger, in the National Tour of Life of Pi throughout 2025. She is also serving as the Assistant Puppetry and Movement Director and Puppetry Captain for the tour. More info and tour dates here Danielle […]