Posted on October 31, 2025
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this November including Leanna Gianoutsos Oliveira, Dana Hall, and Toby Inoue. Dana Hall’s new play Refracted Light, directed by Ponny Conomos Jahn, will run from Nov. 20th to Nov. 23rd, at Carnegie Stage, Pittsburgh PA. The play explores a family facing the upheaval of change […]
Posted on October 28, 2025
The venue for November 3, Monday Night PlayGround-Chicago: Murder Mystery has been moved to Chicago Dramatists: 798 North Aberdeen Street, Chicago. The event will also serve as PlayGround’s second annual evening of one-person plays. From Sherlock Holmes adventures to true crime podcasts, “who done it” stories are as surprising as they are irresistible. PlayGround-CH Writers Pool […]
Posted on October 6, 2025
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this October! Andrea Berting‘s annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month burlesque and variety fundraiser show, “Breast in Show,” is taking place on October 20th! Enjoy an evening of burlesque and variety acts and help us raise money for two 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations providing direct care and […]
Posted on September 29, 2025
What happens when RALPHIE Parker and Ethan GRINCH meet on an Amtrak and devise a plan to help each other achieve their biggest holiday desires? Or, how can we bear with the fact that Santa was found dead in a couple’s apartment; but was St. Nick’s untimely death a result of self-defense…or murder?? Enjoy these […]
Posted on September 19, 2025
“The game is afoot.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange The topic for the November 3rd Monday Night PlayGround-CH has been announced: MURDER MYSTERY! The event will also serve as PlayGround’s second annual evening of one-person plays. From Sherlock Holmes adventures to true crime podcasts, “who done it” stories are as […]
Posted on September 1, 2025
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this September! Dana Hall’s script, Refracted Light, will be having its world premiere at the Eclectic Full Contact Theatre in Chicago. A script which was developed and workshopped by EFCT for over a year. “Refracted Light” tackles sibling rivalry, parental expectation, generational mental health challenges, […]
Posted on August 22, 2025
A playwright, a mother, and a professor walk into Osteria Via Stato. Punchline? They’re the same person! The server wonders if she’ll order pasta, assign a play to read, or pitch her next Broadway show—and the Chicago Honoree at this year’s September 15 One PlayGround Gala Lydia R. Diamond has the brilliance to do all […]
Posted on August 15, 2025
PlayGround has announced the 2025-26 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of four next-gen theatre leaders drawn from across the country and who will work with PlayGround’s artistic staff and national producing teams over the next year in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Fellows gain hands-on experience in the […]
Posted on August 5, 2025
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this August! Alex Kingsley’s new sci-fi horror play THE SUIT will receive a staged reading on August 27 at Special Interest Theater’s GENRE DIVERGENCE festival in St. Paul, Minnesota. Paige Kim Mesina is currently directing Time is a Popped Bubble at The Den Theatre, which […]
Posted on August 1, 2025
In the face of extraordinarily difficult times for theatres nationwide, PlayGround is expanding its programming in four major American cities and expanding career-launching opportunities for theatre artists from across the nation. In support of these efforts and the 500+ actors, writers, directors, and technicians who are supported by PlayGround (and paid union wages), the company […]