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 […]
Posted on January 3, 2025
The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Jacob Marx Rice for his short play Oh Christmas Tree, presented as a staged reading at The Producers Club and via livestream on December 23rd. Congratulations, Jacob! Courtesy of Jacob, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Oh Christmas […]
Posted on December 23, 2024
PlayGround-NY presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “HOLIDAY SURPRISE” December 23, 2024 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 the territory colonially known as the five […]
Posted on December 20, 2024
“We know what we are but not what we may be.” – Ophelia, Hamlet In the spirit of past 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’S SEQUELS. What happens after that joyous wedding at […]
Posted on December 6, 2024
The people have spoken… The November People’s Choice Award goes to Tré Calhoun for his short play The Banned, presented as a staged reading at The Producers Club and via livestream on November 25th. Congratulations, Tré! Courtesy of Tré, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! The Banned by […]
Posted on December 6, 2024
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this December! Danielle E. Moore will co-headline Breaking Sound / Unpublished’s musical theater composer series at pinkFROG cafe in Brooklyn on Thursday, December 12th, powered by Tixr and Spirit Airlines’s #Music4Miles. The set list will include songs and collaborators from her musicals Audrey, Ink & Paint, […]