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 […]
Posted on July 27, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 32nd anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2025-26 Writers Pools, 112 early-career playwrights in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, who will participate in PlayGround’s signature incubator program, […]
Posted on July 16, 2025
One of the nation’s oldest and most respected developers of new works for the theatre, PlayGround will mark the conclusion of its 30th Anniversary Season with a four-city gala celebration taking place simultaneously in New York City (Carmine’s Upper West Side), Chicago (Osteria Via Stato), Los Angeles (Rossoblu) and San Francisco (Verdi Club) on Monday, […]
Posted on July 3, 2025
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this July! Award-winning playwright Dana Hall brings her signature wit and heart to Cue the Comedy, a fresh collection of original audition monologues designed for actors who want to make a memorable impression. Whether you’re prepping for the stage or screen, these monologues offer dynamic […]