Posted on November 14, 2024
The people have spoken… The November People’s Choice Award goes to Anne Brady for her short play, Disloyal, presented as a staged reading live at Theater Wit and Simulcast on November 4th. Congratulations, Anne! Courtesy of Anne, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Disloyal by Anne Brady Cast […]
Posted on November 4, 2024
PlayGround Chicago presents Season 3 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “The American Experiment November 4, 2024 7pm CT Theater Wit & Simulcast ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-Chicago acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires, including the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa, the original […]
Posted on November 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this November! Lani T. Montreal’s one-woman solo show, ANAK NI TAPIA: LEAVING MOTHER, is one of six plays featured at Artemisia Theatre’s #WeWomen Festival. The festival is happening Nov. 4-16, and Montreal’s play will be onstage Nov. 8 and Nov. 15, 7:30PM, at the Little […]
Posted on November 1, 2024
“You see things; and say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw Aspiration! Deflation. Largest hopes, deepest fears. Dreams and nightmares (this month’s prompt!) appear while we sleep and also while we’re awake – motivating us, scaring us, pushing us to be or become our […]
Posted on October 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this October! Donaldson Cardenas will be appearing in the remount of The Conspirators’ “Commedia Divina- It’s Worse Than That” starting October 17th. This highly political romp through a re-imagined 9 Circles of Hell was called “bizarre and brilliant magic—a rollicking good time! (Third Coast Review) […]
Posted on September 20, 2024
“The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness.” – George Washington, January 9, 1790 Join us in kicking off our 3rd Season with a Monday Night full of the stories you thought you knew and the stories you never knew – until now – inspired by […]
Posted on September 17, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th Anniversary Season – PlayGround’s signature Monday Night PlayGround, the nation’s longest-running and largest staged reading series – performed in-person and simulcast in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and Chicago, October 14, 2024 through April 7, […]
Posted on September 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this September! Matt Schutz’s play, The Second First Kiss, which was written and performed as part of Playground-CH’s first season, was adapted into a short film and has been making the festival circuits! You can catch the film at FilmOUT San Diego on Saturday, Sept. […]
Posted on August 26, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2024-25 Writers Pools, 144 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 August 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this August! Joel Willison will be directing a reading at Waukegan Theatre Festival called CHUAN and EVE written by Lyra Nalan. Tickets available here. Gabriella Bonamici is pleased to share a special offer on behalf of Pegasus Theatre. ‘DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA by Nathan […]