Potrero Stage

07/19/2026

❄️FINAL WEEKS TO SUBMIT! ⛄DUE JULY 31 🖤

Applications are now being accepted for PlayGround’s first annual TWISTED HOLIDAY FESTIVAL, November 27-December 20, at Potrero Stage and simulcast.

- Four-week “fringe style” new works festival
- Up to 20 productions and 60 performances
- New holiday-themed works (with a twist!)

PlayGround’s Twisted Holiday Festival welcomes applications from seasoned theatre professionals, first-time producers, and all-star performers in every aspect of live performance, direction, and choreography. Productions will be presented for 3 performances at Potrero Stage (18th Street @ Arkansas),

All productions are simulcast get three HD recordings of their show!

More info: playground-sf.org/twistedholiday

07/17/2026

Producers! 😈 Feeling Naughty? 🥰 Feeling Nice?

BRING YOUR HOLIDAY SHOW TO POTRERO STAGE!
Applications are now being accepted for PlayGround’s 1st Annual Twisted Holiday Festival. The deadline to submit is July 31, 2026. More info here: playground-sf.org/twistedholiday/

SUBMIT YOUR SHOW!PlayGround’s 1st Annual TWISTED HOLIDAY FESTIVAL...

06/07/2026

👉👉 HEY PRODUCERS: RENT OUR SPACE 👈👈

Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays is a 99-seat state-of-the-art performance space and shared community resource located at 1695 18th Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, operated by PlayGround, and serving as home to some of the Bay Area’s leading new play developers and producers.

More at potrerostage.org/rentals/

Rates
If you have a project (full production, workshop, or reading), our space is available at reasonable rates!
– Nonprofit organizations receive over 50% off our already low weekly rental rates
– First-time producers and mico-organizations may be able to access introductory pricing alongside a box office-split model
– With the generous support of the San Francisco Arts Commission, Native American/Indigenous and Black artists may be able to access our space for free

06/02/2026

THIS WEEKEND: One Playground Festival!
Tickets here: playground-sf.org/boxoffice/

All-PlayGround Recess
June 5 at 7pm PT - Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Join members of the SF, LA, NY and Chicago PlayGround communities for a special one-night Recess, cold readings of submissions from this season's Monday Night series, including plays inspired by the prompts "Murder Mystery," "Broadway Musical Parodies," "Tales of the City," and "Bedtime Stories."

Best of the Best of PlayGround
June 6 at 7pm PT - Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Join members of the SF, LA, NY and Chicago PlayGround communities for a special one-night presentation of the Best of the Best of PlayGround, featuring:
Woosh! by Baylee Shlichtman (LA)
Marathon Dan by Uma Incrocci (NY)
Second City, First Draft by Dana Hall (CH)
Bridges of San Francisco County by Stan Stone (SF)

05/29/2026

❄️⛄🎅🕎BRING YOUR HOLIDAY SHOW TO SAN FRANCISCO!
Applications are now being accepted for PlayGround’s first annual TWISTED HOLIDAY FESTIVAL, November 27-December 20, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival will feature up to 20 productions and 60 performances of new holiday-themed works (with a twist!) by talented theatre artists from across the country including PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.

PlayGround’s Twisted Holiday Festival welcomes applications from seasoned theatre professionals, first-time producers, and all-star performers in every aspect of live performance, direction, and choreography. Productions will be presented for 3 performances at Potrero Stage (18th Street @ Arkansas),

For more information: playground-sf.org/twistedholiday

05/28/2026

THIS FRIDAY ONLY:
The Best Short Works submitted from Bay Area High School Students
Friday May 29, 7pm PT at Potrero Stage & Simulcast

Admission: $0-$30 (donations gratefully accepted)
Get tickets: playground-sf.org/youngplaywrights/

The plays and playwrights include:
"A Waymo Carol" by Rover Djikstra (Galileo Academy of Science and Technology)
"The End of the Line" by Juan Li Chen (Galileo Academy of Science and Technology)
"The Tramp of the Galaxy" by Christiana Rajakumar (Crystal Springs Uplands School)
"There is No Elevator to Success, You Must Take the Stairs" by Chloe Schoenfeld (Ruth Asawa School of the Arts).
All four plays will receive staged readings by professional actors!