PlayGround is proud to list the first nine publications in The Best of PlayGround series. For each of these publications, we have selected seven plays representing the very best of PlayGround's annual festivals—in effect, the Best of PlayGround. Click on to hear audio podcast. Click on to see video clip.

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The Best of PlayGround (2009)
The Best of PlayGround (2008)
The Best of PlayGround (2007)
The Best of PlayGround (2006)
The Best of PlayGround (2005)
The Best of PlayGround (2004)
The Best of PlayGround (2003)
The Best of PlayGround (2002)
The Best of PlayGround (1997-2001)

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (2009)

Featuring the seven plays/playwrights of The Best of PlayGround Festival, May 7-31, 2009:
All Thumbs by Aaron Loeb
Gymnopédie #1 by Kenn Rabin
John Jacob O'Reilly Smitherton's Bid to Save the World by Erin Bregman
Net by Geetha Reddy
Seen by Evelyn Jean Pine
Truffaldino Says No by Ken Slattery
Wednesday by Daniel Heath

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (2008)

Featuring the seven plays/playwrights of The Best of PlayGround Festival, May 8-25, 2008:
Giving Up The Ghost by Lauren Yee
Leo by Daniel Heath
O Happy Dagger by Crish Barth
Panopticon by Aaron Loeb
The Boy Who Did Not Listen To His Mother by Cass Brayton
The Known World by Geetha Reddy
The Secret Life of a Hotel Room by Garret Jon Groenveld

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (2007)

Featuring the seven plays/playwrights of The Best of PlayGround Festival, May 10-20, 2007:
I’ll Be Home for Christmas by Tim Bauer
Investing by Evelyn Pine
Isle of Dogs, Part II by Richard Weingart
Man Plus Woman Equals... by Molly Rhodes
Seagull by Daniel Heath
The Nurse’s Tale by Martha Soukup
Unpleasantries by Aaron Loeb

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (2006)

Featuring the seven plays/playwrights of The Best of PlayGround Festival, May 11-21, 2006:
And Now, A Word from Our Sponsors by Tom Swift
Nowhere Man by Tim Bauer
Portals of the Past by David Garrett
Sexual Perversity in Año Nuevo by Ross Peter Nelson
Sewermonster Diaries by Brady Lea
Three Divided Into One by Molly Rhodes
Three, Um, Sisters by Geetha Reddy

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (2005)

Featuring the seven plays/playwrights of The Best of PlayGround Festival, May 12-22, 2005:
Back by Evelyn Pine
Hands in Trash by Sharon Eberhardt
Mushroom Boy by Brady Lea
Obit by Geetha Reddy
Sever by Aaron Loeb
Spotter by Mark Routhier
The Beginning by Tom Swift

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (2004)

Featuring the seven plays/playwrights of The Best of PlayGround Festival, June 10-27, 2004:
Aegis by Jonathan Luskin
I Left My Heart on the 38 Geary by David Garrett
Honey, I'm Home by Geetha Reddy
My Name Is Yin by Tom Swift
Reunion by Kenn Rabin
The Maror the Merrier by Aaron Loeb
The Wait of the World by Maria Rokas

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (2003)

Featuring the seven plays/playwrights of The Best of PlayGround Festival, June 12-29, 2003:
Cold Calls by Martha Soukup
Hunters And Gatherers by Kenn Rabin
I'd Like To Buy A Vowel by Cass Brayton
Letterophilia by Kristina Goodnight
Plans And Peccadilloes by Maria Rokas
Sound by Aaron Loeb
The Vigil by Michael Lütz

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (2002)

Featuring the seven plays/playwrights of The Best of PlayGround Festival, June 13-30, 2002:
A Pocket Full Of Memories by David Garrett
Celadon Box #8 by Kenn Rabin
Missive by Garret Jon Groenveld
Peter's Place In The Stars by Carol Marshall
Remember Paris by Brady Lea
Shameful/Shameless by Aaron Loeb
The Bandersnatch by Kristina Goodnight

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THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND (1997-2001)

Featuring seven plays selected from the first five years of The Best of PlayGround Festival (formerly the PlayGround Emerging Playwrights Festival):
A Bouncing Baby Girl by Mary Michael Wagner
Iowa by Malachy Walsh
Ondine by Garret Jon Groenveld
One Of Those Things by Veronica Xavier Andrew
Sudden Descent by Sean Owens
The Docent by Mark Sherstinsky
The Golden Yes by Daniele Nathanson and Tania Katan

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