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 […]
Posted on September 17, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th Anniversary Season – PlayGround’s signature Monday Night PlayGround, the nation’s longest-running and largest staged reading series – performed in-person and simulcast in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and Chicago, October 14, 2024 through April 7, […]
Posted on September 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this September! Matt Schutz’s play, The Second First Kiss, which was written and performed as part of Playground-CH’s first season, was adapted into a short film and has been making the festival circuits! You can catch the film at FilmOUT San Diego on Saturday, Sept. […]
Posted on August 26, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2024-25 Writers Pools, 144 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 August 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this August! Joel Willison will be directing a reading at Waukegan Theatre Festival called CHUAN and EVE written by Lyra Nalan. Tickets available here. Gabriella Bonamici is pleased to share a special offer on behalf of Pegasus Theatre. ‘DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA by Nathan […]
Posted on July 18, 2024
PlayGround has announced the 2024-25 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of seven 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 […]