Posted on March 10, 2025
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Dana Leslie Goldstein for her play Hello In There, presented as a staged reading at The Producers Club and via livestream on February 24th. Congratulations, Dana! Courtesy of Dana, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Hello In […]
Posted on March 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this March! Michael Hagins‘ play The Senator Speaks is running at the American Theatre of Actors (ATA) Sergeant Theater, exploring pressing issues such as reproductive rights and gun control. Part of the African American Playwrights Initiative, the production runs February 27 – March 8 at various […]
Posted on February 21, 2025
PlayGround-NY presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “If I Had A Song: Folk Inspired Short Musicals” February 24, 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 of […]
Posted on February 21, 2025
“A robot may not injure a human or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” – The First Law of Robotics, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov Technology – humanity’s greatest achievement, or our fiercest enemy? Don’t miss PlayGround’s first ever night of Sci-Fi as our playwrights tackle the big existential questions about […]
Posted on February 7, 2025
The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Claire Abramovitz for her short play The Real Mah Jong Ladies of Venice, Italy, presented as a staged reading at The Producers Club and via livestream on January 20th. Congratulations, Claire! Courtesy of Claire, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the […]
Posted on February 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this February! Nathaniel P. Claridad is currently the City Center Encores Directing Fellow, in association with The Drama League, for the 2024/2025 season. He is assisting on Urinetown, directed by Teddy Bergman, which opens February 5. Meanwhile, his production of Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding […]
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 […]