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A Special Event for Our Friends and Supporters!

What IS a Play Date?

Play Date is a new event series that starts as a challenge for our artists and ends in a performance for our friends and supporters.

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Play Date is made possible by a grant from A.R.T./NY

Works In Progress

In Development....
The Underground Astronauts is a collaboration between Infinite Variety Productions and Playful Substance using interviews about the real life exploits of the women scientists who excavated the Rising Star cave system in South Africa and discovered a previously unknown human relative.

What is in store for 2022-23?

We are slowly coming back after a difficult couple of years.
Healing takes time, and we are coming back to a world that has fundamentally changed
even as our commitment to story, community, creativity and representation
remains as strong as it ever was.
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What is Playful Substance?

Playful Substance is a New York based theater company dedicated to fostering new works through our Writers Groups, developmental workshops, community events and fully staged productions. We believe that lifelong artist development, work-life balance, and the vitality of an inclusive creative space are integral to the artist’s practice. “Playful Substance” is the mission; substantive work approached with joy, cooperation, sensitivity and humor.