Posted on December 3, 2023

Carmia Lowe

December 4 Monday Night PlayGround Playbill

PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 2 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “The Legacy of the Land We Inhabit“ December 04, 2023 7pm CT Live at Theater Wit + Simulcast & On-Demand 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, […]

Posted on December 1, 2023

Emily Zhou

Company in the News December 2023

See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this December! Joel Willison is a producer for Pocket Playfest at the Understudy, December 1-2! Come see 6 original works and meet emerging playwrights/directors! Tickets here! Joel is also directing STAKEHOLDERS by Dakota Brown for The Runaways Lab Theatre’s 10-minute Play Festival on December 7-10. […]

Posted on November 28, 2023

Jim Kleinmann

Join PlayGround This #GivingTuesday!

PlayGround has had a busy year. With Monday Night PlayGround programs running in-person and streaming online in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, we are supporting 400+ writers, directors, actors and stage managers across the country as they create over 140 bold new works for the stage in a supportive community of […]

Posted on November 24, 2023

Darius Adamson

Jan 1 Monday Night PlayGround: “Surviving the Holidays”

“You guys give up? Or are you thirsty for more?”- Kevin McCallister, Home Alone (1990) Come celebrate the holidays PlayGround-style at the next round of Monday Night PlayGround, January 1 at 7PM CT, performed and simulcast online, featuring original short plays inspired by the prompt “Surviving the Holidays”. PlayGround-Chicago’s sister companies, PlayGround-LA, PlayGround, and PlayGround-NY will present their […]

Posted on November 10, 2023

Zoe Chien

The October People’s Choice Award goes to…

The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Tanuja Devi Jagernauth for her short play, Therapy with the Vampire, presented as a staged reading Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on October 30th. Congratulations, Tanuja! Courtesy of Tanuja, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! THERAPY WITH […]

Posted on November 1, 2023

River Bermudez-Sanders

Company in the News November 2023

See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this November! Perceptions Theatre is hosting a reading of alfonzo kahlil‘s play SCORPIO on November 18th at 2:30pm at their space (1825 E 79th St, Chicago, IL 60649) and on November 25th at Chicago Dramatists in collaboration with Prop Thtr (798 N Aberdeen St, Chicago, […]

Posted on October 29, 2023

Carmia Lowe

October 30 Monday Night PlayGround Playbill

PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 2 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Origin Story” October 30, 2023 7pm CT Live at Theater Wit + Simulcast & On-Demand 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 […]

Posted on October 1, 2023

Christy Spence

Company in the News October 2023

See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this October! Joel Willison is working alongside director Mikael Burke as assistant director for Tambo and Bones, opening on October 15th at the Den. Tickets can be found here! Dan Taube‘s new play, “Frankentherapy”, will premiere at The Stella Adler Theatre in Los Angeles in […]