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PlayGround 30th Anniversary Gala


One of the nation’s oldest and most respected developers of new works for the theatre, PlayGround will mark its third decade of incubating new plays ...


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PlayGround Returns With BEST OF PLAYGROUND(CHICAGO) '24 April 29


by A.A. Cristi - April 10, 2024

Discover the selected plays and playwrights for PlayGround's annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND(CHICAGO) ’24....

Cast Set For NATIVE SON at Lifeline Theatre


by Stephi Wild - March 29, 2024

Casting has been announced for Chicagoan Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Richard Wright’s powerful introspection on race and justice like never before. Native Son runs at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave. in Rogers Park, from May 10 – June 30, 2024....

PlayGround-Chicago Season 2 Monday Night PlayGround Blasts Off Next Month with ORIGIN STORY


by Blair Ingenthron - September 24, 2023

Join PlayGround-Chicago for the start of their 2nd season with the Monday Night PlayGround series, featuring original short plays inspired by the prompt 'Origin Story.' The event will be held in-person and simulcast online on October 30th at 7pm CT....

Lifeline Theatre Holds Annual BIPOC Adaptation Development Showcase


by Stephi Wild - June 08, 2023

Lifeline Theatre will Showcase Desi Moreno-Penson's work-in-development, El Bacalao: The Catfish Man(based on Euripides' “The Bacchae”), directed by Ruben Carrazana, on Friday, July 14 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, July 15 at 2:30 p.m.; and Brandon Zang's work-in-development Nuwa In Fairyland, directed by...

PlayGround-Chicago Concludes Season 1 In-Person With Best Of PlayGround-Chicago Gala


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 10, 2023

Playwright incubator PlayGround-Chicago celebrates the best writers and short works from its inaugural season and its first in-person performance at the BEST OF PLAYGROUND-CHICAGO GALA....

Past Shows

PlayGround 30th Anniversary Gala


One of the nation’s oldest and most respected developers of new works for the theatre, PlayGround will mark its third decade of incubating new plays ...

Monday Night PlayGround -


PlayGround playwrights take us on a journey of alternate Shakespearean realities in this second Monday Night PlayGround of the New Year, Monday, February 5, 2024

A Very HitchC*CK Christmas
A Very HitchC*CK Christmas
12/10 - 12/31/2023


PlayGround presents its second annual "twisted" holiday show: A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS!  Featuring six cinnamon-spiced, deliciously dark short plays inspired by Rear Window, Rebecca, Rope ...

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