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New Festival Features Three Days Of Musical Improv Shows


by A.A. Cristi - August 14, 2024

Experience three days of musical improv at the Bay Area Musical Improv Festival in Oakland, October 25-27. Featuring 18 acts from the Bay Area, Chicago, and Hawaii, each performance is entirely improvised....

San Francisco Opera's Italian Roots Celebrated in New Museo Italo Americano Exhibition


by Stephi Wild - May 25, 2023

The Museo Italo Americano celebrates the 100th anniversary of San Francisco Opera with a new exhibition: BRAVO—Celebrating San Francisco Opera, Its Italian Roots and Legacy. Presented in partnership with San Francisco Opera and Museum of Performance + Design, the exhibition runs through October 22, ...

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


Anastasia in San Francisco / Bay Area Anastasia
Hillbarn Theatre (12/5 - 12/29) Tracker
PHOTOS
Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles
Lesher Center for the Arts (6/13 - 6/13)
Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady in San Francisco / Bay Area Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady
San Francisco Playhouse (7/3 - 9/13)
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents Hershey Felder in Rachmaninoff and the Tsar in San Francisco / Bay Area TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents Hershey Felder in Rachmaninoff and the Tsar
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (1/10 - 2/9)
Live At the Orinda - 2024-2025 Concert Season in San Francisco / Bay Area Live At the Orinda - 2024-2025 Concert Season
Orinda Theatre (10/27 - 5/18)
In Love and Warcraft in San Francisco / Bay Area In Love and Warcraft
City Lights Theater Company (1/16 - 2/9)
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical in San Francisco / Bay Area A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Golden Gate Theatre (6/3 - 6/22)
Happy Pleasant Valley
Lesher Center for the Arts (6/1 - 6/29)
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