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BATS IMPROV

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IMPROV AND A MOVIE and More Set for BATS Improv 40th Anniversary Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 09, 2025

BATS Improv, San Francisco’s vibrant nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of improvised theatre, will celebrate their milestone 40th anniversary season with a lineup of original productions and returning hits....

BATS Improv to Celebrate Holiday Season With Two Unscripted Productions


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 06, 2025

BATS Improv will celebrate the holiday season with two unscripted productions—the return of An Improvised Dickens Musical and the first-ever, A NYE Plot Twist....

Past Shows

Theatresports (TM)
Theatresports (TM)
7/7 - 8/25/2023


Who will be the summer champions when your favorite teams square off in improvised competitions? BATS Improv brings back the world-renowned sensation Theatresports TM Fridays ...

Improvised Fantasy Island
Improvised Fantasy Island
7/1 - 7/29/2023


Improv Magic Awaits at Fantasy Island! Join the guests at this tropical island resort where their every dream comes true, but never in the way ...

The AI Experiment: An Unscripted Adventure


The AI Experiment is an exciting three-way collaboration! It starts with the BATS players getting a variety of story suggestions from the audience, including genre ...

The Gather
The Gather
3/3 - 3/31/2023


The Gather brings storytellers and improvisers together on the BATS stage! Every Friday in March, two invited storytellers, from local organizations including The Moth and ...

Spontaneous Broadway
Spontaneous Broadway
3/4 - 3/25/2023


Thank you for your long history of backing new musical theatre! We've got another project for your consideration -- in fact, we have too many ...

Guilty Pleasures: Improvised Soaps


Long lost twins? Business empires crushed? Love affairs revealed? Find out in Guilty Pleasures: Improvised Soaps! Every Saturday in February we’ll feature a different genre ...

Love Makes the World Go Round


A show for those in love, looking for love, or trying to avoid the whole thing at all costs. Love makes the world go round ...

Celebrate New Year’s with BATS Improv


BRING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH BATS IMPROV! Come join us for a New Year's-inspired show! We’ll do short scenes based on your New Year’s ...

BATS Improv Presents: Theatresports™


Who will be the holiday champions when your favorite teams square off in improvised competitions? BATS Improv brings back the world-renowned sensation THEATRESPORTS for four ...

BATS Improv Presents: The Good, The Bad & The Jolly


A collection of musical vignettes exploring and celebrating all things holiday! Whether you love the holidays or hate them, revel in the winter cheer or ...

Family Drama
Family Drama
11/12 - 11/26/2022


Family Drama is a fully improvised three act stage play set at a family holiday gathering. The performers create the characters, relationships and home where ...

The Harold
The Harold
11/11 - 11/25/2022


THE HAROLD begins with a single audience suggestion. From that point on anything can happen — it’s unstructured and unpredictable! The improvisers search for improv ...

The Improvised Twilight Zone
The Improvised Twilight Zone
10/15 - 10/29/2022


Enter a dimension of both shadow and substance. It’s the middle ground between science and superstition, between the pit of your fears and the summit ...

Things that Go Blank in the Night


Things That Go "Bump"? "Ah-choo"? "Surprise"? "Moo"? You tell us! Things That Go “blank” in the Night is an improvised homage to horror anthology movies ...

3 FOR ALL
3 FOR ALL
10/21 - 10/22/2022


THEY’RE BACK! 3 FOR ALL Returns as Special Guests of BATS Improv! RAFE CHASE, STEPHEN KEARIN & TIM ORR - San Francisco's internationally critically acclaimed ...

Two Musicals, Tonight!
Two Musicals, Tonight!
4/16 - 4/30/2022


Two Musicals, Tonight! is improv at its most magical when the BATS Company players spontaneously create two completely improvised musicals, one in each half, based ...

The Cypher Scenes
The Cypher Scenes
4/15 - 4/29/2022


It is back again! Improvised poets and freestyle rappers join BATS Improv onstage for The Cypher Scenes at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture. ...

SuperScene
SuperScene
12/18


Super Scene Five genres in one nightSuper Scene is a fast-paced, rip-roaring theatre competition featuring five directors creating five unique, completely improvised stories, each with ...

Bitten By BATS Improv Festival


Bitten By BATS Improv Festival honors the myriad ways in which BATS Improv has helped create, shape, and enrich the San Francisco Bay Area improv ...

Videos


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“El Tiempo Latine” in San Francisco / Bay Area “El Tiempo Latine”
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St (5/16 - 5/16)
Over the River and Through the Woods in San Francisco / Bay Area Over the River and Through the Woods
City Lights Theater Company (11/20 - 12/21)
Mystery, Magi, and Mittens On December 14, 2025 in San Francisco / Bay Area Mystery, Magi, and Mittens On December 14, 2025
St. Mark's Lutheran Church (12/14 - 12/14)
(y)OURS in San Francisco / Bay Area (y)OURS
ODC Theater (12/13 - 12/13)
Ride the Cyclone in San Francisco / Bay Area Ride the Cyclone
City Lights Theater Company (7/16 - 8/23)
Hadestown (Non-Equity) in San Francisco / Bay Area Hadestown (Non-Equity)
Saroyan Theatre (4/7 - 4/8)
Salsa and Bachata Dance Fridays Salsa Dancing, Bachata Dancing at Dance Fridays, Dance Lessons in San Francisco / Bay Area Salsa and Bachata Dance Fridays Salsa Dancing, Bachata Dancing at Dance Fridays, Dance Lessons
Dance Fridays (12/19 - 12/19)
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