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 […]
Posted on December 6, 2025
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this December! Toby Inoue‘s full-length play SORA AND KELLER will have a reading as a part of Naked Angels T@9 Chicago’s 1st Mondays reading series on Mon Dec 8 at 7pm at the Russ Tutterow Theatre at Chicago Dramatists, 798 North Aberdeen. In SORA AND KELLER, […]
Posted on November 18, 2025
The people have spoken… The 2025 November People’s Choice Award goes to Dana Hall for their short play, Last Lick of Justice, presented as a staged reading live at Theater Wit and Simulcast on November 3rd. Congratulations, Dana! Courtesy of Dana, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Last Lick […]
Posted on November 2, 2025
PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Murder Mystery” November 3, 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 […]
Posted on October 31, 2025
Ever dreamed of seeing your name in lights (or at least on a playbill)? Now’s your chance to step into the spotlight as a producer! This holiday season PlayGround-LA invites you to help us create some “twisted” holiday magic by becoming an Honorary Producer of A Very Hitchcock Christmas! Happening at Potrero Stage in San […]
Posted on October 31, 2025
“I’ll blow the Gershwin up because I AM the loudest WITCH IN OZ! And, no one’s gonna turn my volume doooown!” – Forbidden Broadway The topic for the December 15th Monday Night PlayGround-CH has been announced: MUSICAL PARODY! The event will also serve as PlayGround’s annual “musical theatre night.” We love musicals, we really do. But sometimes theatricalpalooza […]