Posted on February 4, 2026
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this February including: Dana Hall Leanna Oliveira, Jay Rehak, Diana Simonzadeh, and Katherine Swan! Dana Hall is featured in the recently published, “Best Female Monologues 2025 from Smith & Kraus” collection. This collection is a go-to audition book, packed with contemporary, smart, emotionally rich monologues written […]
Posted on January 31, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Tales of the City” February 2, 2026, 7 pm CT Chicago Dramatists & 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, […]
Posted on January 30, 2026
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.” – Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon (illustrations by Clement Hurd) The topic for the March 16 Monday Night PlayGround-Chicago has been announced: BEDTIME STORIES. Playwrights in the PlayGround-Chicago Writers Pool have been invited to generate an original short play intended for young audiences (Theatre for Young Audiences, TYA) […]
Posted on January 23, 2026
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its first annual PlayGround Comedy Festival, an eclectic lineup of innovative performances including stand-up, sketch, improv, comedic plays, and more! Performances run March 6-29, 2026 (Thurs-Mon), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival features 18 hilarious acts and 60 performances produced by Lee Archer, […]
Posted on January 9, 2026
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its ninth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in solo performance, running January 16-February 8, 2026 (Thurs-Mon), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work (the largest in PlayGround’s history!) features 17 solo performers and 58 performances, […]
Posted on January 1, 2026
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this January including: J.S. Puller, Karissa Murrell Myers, and Diana Simonzadeh! J.S. Puller‘s play, WINTER’S END, which was part of the PlayGround Festival of New Works this year, recently won the Epiphanies New Works Festival at Wild Imaginings, a theatre based out of Waco, Texas. As […]
Posted on December 29, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator, has announced five new offerings as a part of its revamped education program for adults. The workshops and masterclasses will be lead by acclaimed playwrights Jonathan Spector, (Tony Award-Winner, Eureka Day), Lydia R. Diamond (Broadway: Toni Stone, Stick Fly), Steve Yockey (Emmy Nominee & Multiple NNPN Rolling World Premieres), […]
Posted on December 26, 2025
The people have spoken… The 2025 December People’s Choice Award goes to Shail Modi for his short play, Gnats!, presented as a staged reading live at Theater Wit and Simulcast on December 15th. Congratulations, Shail! Courtesy of Shail, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! GNATS! Featuring up to […]
Posted on December 19, 2025
“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” -Plato The topic for the February 2nd Monday Night PlayGround-CH has been announced: TALES OF THE CITY! Playwrights in the PlayGround-Chicago Writers Pool have been invited to generate an original short play, fictional or fact-based, historical or contemporary, that is specific to Chicago, its […]
Posted on December 15, 2025
PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Musical Parody” December 15, 2025, 7 pm CT Chicago Dramatists & 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 […]