Posted on February 9, 2024
Don’t miss your chance to be part of PlayGround’s third annual Free-Play Festival! Applications are due by April 30, 2024. The Free-Play Festival is a three-week non-curated fringe-style platform to highlight new works from the national PlayGround community and beyond, offering each artist team three public performances in a state-of-the-art San Francisco theatre, in person […]
Posted on February 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this February! Danielle E. Moore’s short comedy “These White Men Are Dangerous,” originally developed and featured in PlayGround-NY’s November 2023 “The Legacy of the Land We Inhabit” installment, has been named the winner of the January 2024 Kumu Kahua Theater and Bamboo Ridge Press PlayWrite competition. […]
Posted on January 31, 2024
The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Bram Hartman for his short play, Belly Shots Off Two Randos, presented as a staged reading live online on January 22nd. Congratulations, Bram! Courtesy of Bram, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Belly Shots Off Two Randos by […]
Posted on January 26, 2024
“And I’ll remember/The strength that you gave me/Now that I’m standing on my own/I’ll remember/The way that you saved me/I’ll remember”- Madonna, “I’ll Remember” (1994) Don your best denim tuxedo and join PlayGround in celebrating its 30th anniversary with a musical Monday Night inspired by the year of PlayGround’s founding, 1994! Join us on Monday, […]
Posted on January 22, 2024
PlayGround-NY presents Season 3 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “The Shakespeare Multiverse” January 22, 2024 7pm ET Live at The Producers Club + Simulcast & On Demand 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 […]
Posted on January 15, 2024
The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Jacob Marx Rice for his short play, The Prophets, presented as a staged reading live online on December 25th. Congratulations, Jacob! Courtesy of Jacob, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! The Prophets by Jacob Marx Rice Characters […]
Posted on December 29, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this January! Bailey Jordan Garcia has a lot coming up in the New Year! First, their piece This Is Beauty (created for PlayGround) will be in Heller Theatre’s Second Sunday Serials on January 14th. They are also co-producing a reading of Roni Ragone’s Up Strung Down […]
Posted on December 28, 2023
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5, William Shakespeare What if King Hamlet had discovered his brother’s plans before the treacherous poisoning? Or if Romeo had arrived just a few minutes later to discover Juliet awakening? PlayGround playwrights take us […]
Posted on December 22, 2023
PlayGround-NY presents Season 3 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Surviving the Holidays” December 25th, 2023 7pm ET Vimeo Live Simulcast & On Demand 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 8, 2023
The people have spoken… The November People’s Choice Award goes to Claire Abramovitz for their short play, Mercy as a Mother on a Child, presented as a staged reading live at The Producer’s Club and Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on November 27th. Congratulations, Claire! Courtesy of Claire, we’re pleased to share the first […]