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👉🏼SOLO FEST INFO SESSION: Monday, Aug 31, 5-6p PTLearn more about the 2027 PlayGround Solo Fest (Jan 15-Feb 7, Potrero S...
08/28/2026

👉🏼SOLO FEST INFO SESSION: Monday, Aug 31, 5-6p PT
Learn more about the 2027 PlayGround Solo Fest (Jan 15-Feb 7, Potrero Stage & simulcast) and how you can participate!

Register for Monday, Aug 31 at 5pm PT/8 ET
https://bit.ly/4gBsrAJ

Solo Fest guidelines and application form:
https://playground-sf.org/solofest-guidelines

📆Space available for November and December!Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays is a 99-seat state-of-the-art ...
08/26/2026

📆Space available for November and December!
Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays is a 99-seat state-of-the-art performance space t in the heart of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood.

New availability:
- November 9-26, 2026 (great rates!)
- December 21, 2026-January 10, 2027
- Also booking through December, 2028

If you have a project (full production, workshop, or reading), our space is available at reasonable rates!
💟Nonprofit organizations receive over 50% off our already low weekly rental rates
1️⃣ First-time producers and micro-organizations may be able to access introductory pricing alongside a box office-split model

More at potrerostage.org/rentals/

That's a wrap! Free-Play 2026 was a festival for the ages:21 Productions60 Performances50+ performersThousands of atten...
08/24/2026

That's a wrap! Free-Play 2026 was a festival for the ages:

21 Productions
60 Performances
50+ performers
Thousands of attendees in-person and online
1 amazing experience all around!!

Producers, congratulations on an incredible summer festival!!

And THANK YOU to the countless friends, family members, PlayGrounders, theatre patrons, and supporters for your attendance, for your donations, and for making so much incredible theatre happen!

The Monday Night PlayGround season starts in October - schedule, venues, topics, and details to be announced!

Celebrate Margo Hall and the June Anne Baker Prize 25th AnniversaryJoin us for the ONE PLAYGROUND GALA!📆September 14, 20...
08/23/2026

Celebrate Margo Hall and the June Anne Baker Prize 25th Anniversary
Join us for the ONE PLAYGROUND GALA!
📆September 14, 2026
🎟 playground-sf.org/gala/

PlayGround will honor four theatre luminaries at our annual four-city gala on Monday, September 14th. In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of PlayGround’s June Anne Baker Prize, one of the nation’s longest-running play commissions dedicated to the next generation of promising women/non-binary playwrights, PlayGround will recognize significant theatre artists and producers who have elevated womxn playwrights and stories throughout their careers:

Margo Hall, Lorraine Hansbury Theatre (San Francisco)
Jessica Kubzansky, Boston Court Pasadena (Los Angeles)
Emily Shooltz, Signature Theatre (New York)
Ericka Ratcliff, Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago)

The 2026 June Anne Baker Prize winners are Esther Banegas Gatica (PlayGround-Los Angeles), KT Frances Hartline (PlayGround-SF), Uma Incrocci (PlayGround-NY), and Toby Inoue (PlayGround-CH). The Gala honorary committee includes June Anne Baker Prize alumni Lauren Yee and Geetha Reddy (honorary co-chairs), as well as Rachel Bublitz, Patricia Cotter, Laura Domingo, Brady Lea, Alanna McFall, Erin Marie Panttaja, Evelyn Jean Pine, Bridgette Dutta Portman, and Kimberly Ridgeway.

🤩21 Shows! 60 Performances! FINAL WEEEKEND!The 5th Annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL starts soon!NOW -August 23, 2026Potrero Sta...
08/22/2026

🤩21 Shows! 60 Performances! FINAL WEEEKEND!
The 5th Annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL starts soon!
NOW -August 23, 2026
Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Admission-Free, Suggested Donation $10-$30
Check out the lineup: playground-sf.org/freeplay/

PlayGround closes out the summer season with the fifth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL! This four-week “fringe style” new works festival features 21 productions and 61 performances by talented theatre artists from across the country including PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.

😮FINAL SHOWS: "My Dead Uncle’s P**n Collection" by Barbara BradySat, Aug 22, 12PM and Sun, Aug 23, 4PMPart of PlayGround...
08/21/2026

😮FINAL SHOWS: "My Dead Uncle’s P**n Collection" by Barbara Brady
Sat, Aug 22, 12PM and Sun, Aug 23, 4PM
Part of PlayGround's Free-Play Festival

Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Admission-Free (Suggested Donation: $10-$30)
Get tickets: playground-sf.org/boxoffice/

I have to clean out my “funny uncle’s” house. It’s a house full of secrets, and his “stash” is not the strangest thing I find.

➡ Submissions Now Open: 10th Annual PlayGround Solo Performance FestivalJanuary 15-February 7, 2027Potrero Stage & Simul...
08/21/2026

➡ Submissions Now Open: 10th Annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival
January 15-February 7, 2027
Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Application Deadline: September 15, 2026

💻 Producers are granted three live performances which are also streamed live! Producers also receive access to live recordings at the end of the festival.
🔗 playground-sf.org/solofest-guidelines/

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
PlayGround invites submission of proposals for the 10th annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, to take place at PlayGround’s San Francisco venue, Potrero Stage, with live online simulcast, January 15-February 7, 2027. PlayGround is interested in diverse voices and approaches, including storytelling, clowning, music, dance, multimedia, comedy, etc. In addition to new works by individual writer-performers, we are also interested in collaborations between separate writers and performers as well as adaptations of existing material in the public domain, historical biographies and/or historical events. BIPOC, trans/gender-nonconforming, and artists with disabilities encouraged to apply. Running time for proposed pieces can be up to 50 minutes without intermission.

🏳️‍🌈THIS WEEKEND ONLY: Improv Playhouse of San FranciscoFri, Aug 21, 8PM; Sat, Aug 22, 6PM; Sun, Aug 23, 6PMPlayGround F...
08/21/2026

🏳️‍🌈THIS WEEKEND ONLY: Improv Playhouse of San Francisco
Fri, Aug 21, 8PM; Sat, Aug 22, 6PM; Sun, Aug 23, 6PM
PlayGround Free-Play Festival

Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Admission-Free (Suggested Donation: $10-$30)
Get tickets: playground-sf.org/boxoffice/

Fully improvised performances (every night is a new, original script!):
8/21: The Naked Stage, a fully improvised 2-Act Play, in which each improviser plays one character only and all the action takes place on one set.
8/22: Improvised Movie. Based on a title from the audience, the story jumps through different times and locations, like a "movie". But on stage!
8/23: The Bechdel Test: 3 women. 3 lives. All improvised.

THIS WEEKEND ONLY: "Visions Of An Innovator: Letters From The Plantation" by Brittany MellersonFri, Aug 21, 6PM; Sat, A...
08/20/2026

THIS WEEKEND ONLY:
"Visions Of An Innovator: Letters From The Plantation" by Brittany Mellerson
Fri, Aug 21, 6PM; Sat, Aug 22, 4PM; Sun, Aug 23, 8PM
PlayGround Free-Play Festival

Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Admission-Free (Suggested Donation: $10-$30)
Get tickets: playground-sf.org/boxoffice/

VIP is a visionary collective of artists, creators, and performers obsessed with evolving arts relationships within our communities. This performance is a journey of manifestation and reinvention – finding family with whom we cultivate affinity and community. A carnival of black joy and existence. A sensitive experience filled with music, conversation, storytelling and love.

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