Posted on December 11, 2024
“Maybe Christmas… doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.” – Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings, and who-knows-what-else! Whether your holidays tend to bring on heartfelt reflections, meaningful connections, or endless confections, our writers are ready to dig into the wintery […]
Posted on December 6, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this December! Toby Inoue‘s full-length play KEEP IT LIGHT will have two staged readings during Redtwist Theatre’s Twisted PlayFest. Dates: Wednesday, December 18th @ 8:00pm and Saturday, December 21st @ 12:00pm. Tickets are pay-what-you-can. More info here. Siah Berlatsky’s new play, GALAHAD MANOR, will receive […]
Posted on December 3, 2024
At our 30th Anniversary Gala this year, Broadway playwright Jonathan Spector shared, “I don’t know if I would be a playwright today if it weren’t for PlayGround.” For 30 years, PlayGround has provided hundreds of writers their very first opportunity to hear their words out loud. Of course we hope all our playwrights make it to Broadway, but […]
Posted on November 30, 2024
PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 3 in association with Theater Wit MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Dreams & Nightmares” December 2, 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 […]
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 […]