Review: KING LEAR at Z Space
What did our critic think of KING LEAR at Z Space?…
BATS Improv
Landmark Building B
San Francisco, CA 94123
BATS Improv is a theatre in San Francisco, CA.
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Review: LEGALLY BLONDE at Berkeley Playhouse
LEGALLY BLONDE explodes onto the stage at Berkeley Playhouse with a joie de vivre that lights up the house. The high energy dancing, powerful vocals and the never ending onslaught of jokes keep the audience smiling. …
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center
What did our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Little Shop of Horrors, whose star is a bloodthirsty flora, plants its roots at the New Conservatory for the opening of its 26-27 season and it’s an energetic, darkly comic, gender bending allegory for all that…
Review: NORTH BY NORTHWEST at American Conservatory Theatre
From across the pond, acclaimed director Emma Rice’s latest adaptation North by Northwest makes its West Coast debut, turning Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 suspense film on its ear with her whimsical, comic stylings.…
Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Center Rep
What did our critic think of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Center Rep?…
Review: AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
What did our critic think of AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre?…
Review: CRUSHING at A.C.T. Strand
Stories of romantic love are delivered by a variety of interdisciplinary artists in the second Bay Area incarnation of Crushing, and it’s a winner for the art of spoken word. The featured writers span genders, ages and viewpoints and you never know what’s coming next.…
Review: THE COOK at Berkeley Rep
A love of food sustains houseworker Gladys over a forty-year arc that coincides with the social, economic and political changes wrought by the Cuban revolution of 1959 in Eduardo Machado’s The Cook, opening Berkeley Rep’s 59th season. In Tanya Orellana’s superbly appointed and functional kit…
Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Gets a Spectacular New Life at Broadway San Jose
Review of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Broadway San Jose, where dazzling stagecraft, spectacular choreography and standout performances make the new touring production a theatrical feast.…
Review: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at Masquers Playhouse
VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE is a delightful romp with equal measures of nostalgia and hope for the future. With rapid-fire dialogue and pitch-perfect timing, the cast bring the script by Christopher Durang to life. …
Past Shows
19 total · showing 11–19
Family Drama
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 truths, history and the foibles of the family are revealed. The play unfolds in real time on a set inspired by audience...
The Harold
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 magic as they follow threads and whims ensuring no two Harolds are alike. The Harold was born in SF at the ground...
The Improvised Twilight Zone
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 of your mind, whose boundaries are that of imagination. It’s an area we call … The Improvised Twilight Zone. On four Saturday...
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 like Creepshow and the V/H/S series. Each night different stories unfold, all completely made up on the spot. What horrors...
3 FOR ALL
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 improv trio - creates a unique blend of intensely funny, and sometimes dramatic, completely improvised scenes and an...
Two Musicals, Tonight!
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 on genres suggested by the audience.
The Cypher Scenes
It is back again! Improvised poets and freestyle rappers join BATS Improv onstage for The Cypher Scenes at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture. This adventurous show is co-created and directed by BATS Improvs Company member, comedian, and writer Larry Dorsey, Jr., who recently...
SuperScene
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 a unique tone or genre, But theres a catch stories unfold one scene at a time, round by round...
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 scene.An incredible number of improvisers who have met in the BATS community, when studying at the BATS School of Improv, or when...
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Bye Bye Birdie Warren Theater (9/18-10/04) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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Monday Night PlayGround-SF: AMERICA 250 - The Dreamers, The Builders, & The Leaders The Ashby Stage (10/19-10/19) |
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The Death of Meyerhold Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (11/28-1/01) |
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The Who's Tommy San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (11/17-11/22) |
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prePLAY New Play Series: The Trial Run by Daniel Martinez Jr. PlayGround PlaySpace (10/18-10/18) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (7/07-7/18) |
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Shrek the Musical Berkeley Playhouse (5/21-6/20) |
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Mamma Mia! San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (6/08-6/13) |
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“Inspiración: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers” Center for New Music (5/15-5/15) |
