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PlayGround SF Festival Premiere: Best of

Saturday, May 24, 2025 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*$0-$50 Suggested Donation
Potrero Stage | 1695 18th St, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco

Event Details

PlayGround SF

Best of PlayGround 

 

PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(SF) ‘25. Originally developed among thirty-six new short plays through PlayGround’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, these plays will receive a two-night encore performance on May 24 & 25, 2025 at 7pm PT at Potrero Stage and simulcast under a unique new media agreement with SAG-AFTRA. Free to stream, watch on-demand, and at the door on show nights (donations gratefully accepted), advanced in-person reservations start at $10. For tickets and more information, visit https://playground-sf.org/bestof.

 

The Best of PlayGround(SF) ‘25 selected plays/playwrights are:

The Case of the Missing Messenger by Madeleine Butler

Ratification Panic Room by Jediah Craig

Grandma’s First Festivus by Laura Domingo

Twas the Launch Before Christmas by Carl Andrew Johnson

The Trial Run by Daniel Martinez Jr.

An Emblem of Christmas by Bridgette Dutta Portman

 

2025 Honorable Mentions:

I’ve Looked at Clouds that Way by KT Frances Hartline

Conversation by Nino Greene

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https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/online?event=395

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Cost: FREE*
*$0-$50 Suggested Donation
Categories: *Top Pick*, In Person, Memorial Day Weekend, Online, Theater & Performance
Address: 1695 18th St, San Francisco, CA

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