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This original female-driven variety show, Monday Night ForePlays, is written, directed, produced and starring an all-star cast of ladies. The show includes a titillating collection of comedic sketches touching on performance anxiety, bodily functions, relationships, robots, office politics, writer's block and sex. The show will also feature original dance numbers and a rotating line-up of musical acts, as well as special additions ranging from burlesque acts to comedians. Learn more...

The hilarious holiday satire about a job as a department store Christmas elf returns to San Francisco for an 8th year. Based on bestselling author David Sedaris' legendary biographical account of working as the costumed Crumpet the Elf at a New York Macy's, Santaland Diaries has become a holiday staple since being adapted into a one-man stage show. Learn more...

Jennifer Jajeh brings her comedic solo show about life as a single, Catholic, Palestinian-American woman to San Francisco. In I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You, Jajeh recounts a trip back to her parents' hometown in the West Bank while weaving in an honest and funny examination of topics from dating to politics to identity. Learn more...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize as well as the Tony Award for Best Play, The Heidi Chronicles is beloved playwright Wendy Wasserstein's masterpiece. This timely play follows humanist art historian Heidi Holland through four decades of social and political change. Never quite fitting in with the times that are a-changing around her, Heidi struggles to keep her identity and moral compass while her friends chase a more compromised dream. Painfully funny and wonderfully insightful, The Heidi Chronicles is a modern classic. Learn more...

Sue & Friends, a one-woman (sorta) improv show by Sue Walden, the founder of Flash Family and the director of ImprovWorks. Theater, song, games, stories...you can participate as much or as little as you like. Lots of fun! Learn more...

CAFE/Off-Market Theater presents a night of naughty ukulele and comic improv, featuring Rocking Randal, 15 minutes and Middle School Improv. 15-minutes are one of the hottest comedy shows in San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area, and Middle School Poetry are fresh off their Improv Revolution debut! As a special bonus, Randall Miller and his rockin' ukulele will perform several ribald, humorous songs. Learn more...

miss-matches.com, Leslie Beam's solo show, is an unvarnished account of one woman's descent into relationship purgatory. Leslie prowls through cyberspace in search of love, discovering steamy e-mails, adults-only chat rooms, and dating websites that cater to every possible inclination. See a woman take charge of her emotional life -- and make a complete mess of it. Learn more...

If you could sacrifice an object, what would it be? Tapered jeans from the 80's? Dental floss? Maple seeds? A Czech marionette? Lila Theatre performs an eclectic body of work inspired by real people, real objects, and real stories. Witness this original production as it takes on the challenge of transforming sacred objects. Learn more...

Lila Theatre presents stellar improv with special guests Rachel Miller (The Second City) and Julie Potter (Lila). Experience a rollercoaster ride of comedy, drama, and more! Learn more...

Lila Theatre presents Reflections, an improvisational production at Off-Market Theater. The show incorporates personal stories, community, connection, and slice of life circumstance, fused together on stage for a completely original performance. Learn more...

Join the Lila Theatre Conservatory Company as they perform an experimental musical improvisational theatre work. Experience original songs, long-forms, and more. Don't miss this unique performance featuring a collaboration with the multi-media improvised art ensemble, dud. Learn more...

Comedy On The Square presents Almost Cabaret, featuring hosts Tony Sparks, a.k.a. the "Don" of the Bay Area Alternative Comedy Scene, and Fred Anderson, a headliner for Carnival Cruise Line. Each week features a four-act show from a rotating cast of comedy, variety and musical guests. Learn more...

Farewell to The Tooth Fairy is Lynn Ruth Miller's one-woman show about everyone's power to create his own destiny and discover enchantment in the life we live. The show is 60 minutes of laughter and tears seasoned with an unvarnished dose of reality. Learn more...

Paint with Lynn is an opportunity to discover the artist inside you with veteran teacher and guide Lynn Ruth Miller, star of her own very popular hands-on art show Paint with Lynn, shown on Channel 26, Pacifica. Parents and children are encouraged to share the creative experience. All parents are free when accompanied by a child. Learn more...

Paint with Lynn is an opportunity to discover the artist inside you with veteran teacher and guide Lynn Ruth Miller, star of her own hands-on art show, Paint with Lynn, on Channel 26, Pacifica. Parents and children 3-8 years-old are encouraged to share the creative experience. Adults are free when accompanied by a child. Learn more...

A suspected subway killer, a jury forewoman who becomes obsessed, and a lovestruck security guard, none of whom bestow their affections wisely, collide in a hilariously twisted triangle. This is the world of Shove, a shocking new comedy. The Constitution grants you trial by a jury of your peers. Are you sure you want it? Learn more...

Lila Theatre presents the world premiere of With Love We Travel. Jim and Rheri met while performing in the basement of a dive bar in Boston. After a seemingly endless courtship, they fell in love and moved to San Francisco. As collaborators in life and on stage, they explore the humorous, touching, and challenging moments of new beginnings. Come experience their story. Learn more...

The classic WASP-culture bittersweet romance, Love Letters, is twisted with a daring new staging featuring Pippi Lovestocking, Donna Sachet, and Matt Weimer. While sticking to the original script of correspondences between wealthy friends, a new ambiguity adds layers to the high-society roles. Learn more...

From the author of A Walk in the Woods and Patient A, Lee Blessing's Two Rooms is a provocative, timely story of an American held hostage in a foreign land and his wife's attempts to gain his freedom at any cost. Learn more...

Lila Theatre proudly presents the entire 2005-06 Resident Company in their final show. Experience an original improvised theatre production created by this year's company. It will be an amazing performance of emotional ups and downs as Lila Theatre celebrates an entire year's journey of truthful, artistic plays. Learn more...

Ray of Light Theatre presents The Last Five Years, a musical by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown. A young couple's romance is ingeniously chronicled from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on who you're watching. These moments of modern romance will leave you laughing and crying. Featuring Eli Newsom and Christy McIntosh, last seen together in Ray of Light's critically acclaimed production of Bat Boy the Musical Learn more...

Lila Theatre proudly presents members of the 2005-2006 Lila Theatre Resident Company in their last performance of Reflections. Experience personal stories, community, connection, and slice of life circumstance as they fuse together in this genuinely delivered original improvisational theatre production. Learn more...

Lighten Up, John - Instant Theater!, the Bay Area's newest improv ensemble presents a late night improvised musical featuring the music of David Norfleet. The subject of the musical will be determined by the audience. Learn more...

Scared Scriptless features the audience as brave campers guided by the cast as their fearless counselors working together to create and solve mysterious murders. The unique improvised two-act play combines hilarity, mayhem, murder, music and improv to create an interactive theater experience like never before. Learn more...

Lies... Infidelity... Secrets...Hedge clippers? These Desperate Improvisors will be improvising a suburban soap based on audience suggestions. Who knows what will happen in this naughty neighborhood? You do! Learn more...

The story of looking for what you thought you lost, as we follow one man (Tyler) on his search from the local bar, through the concrete streets, into the forests of elsewhere. Tyler's odyssey allows him to find himself while protecting our most precious resource, our animal population. Learn more...

Inspired by Hollywood comedies, Love at First Sight is a modern-day romantic comedy that's never the same show twice--because it's un-scripted! Learn more...

Fireball Improv is a revolutionary improvisational theatre troupe devoted to exploring human relationships by drawing on audience suggestions. Learn more...

CAFE/Off-Market Theater presents Ha Bloody Ha!, the live talk show hosted by comedian Harmon Leon, featuring new guests each week from the world of comedy, music, and film. Learn more...

Short-form improv and long-form improv all at once, by some of the best improvisors in the Bay Area! Learn more...

Some of the best improvisers in the Bay Area come together weekly to present Improv Revolution. National and regional talent as well as the hottest locals serve up a tight night of comedy jammin'! This show features Cassidy Brown, Lilly Harvey, Christopher Hayes, Chris Libby, Regina Meltzer and many more. Learn more...

Get ready for an evening of hilarious improvisational singing...and you can be the star of the show! You make up the words and the melodies, as our master musician follows along doing his magic to make everyone sound great. The evening's winner takes home $100! Learn more...

Improvisational theater is sweet. It combines performance & storytelling. Technology is sweet. We find ourselves in the 21st Century with tools that allow us to do things we only imagined decades before. Combine the two and you have: Electric Candyland. Learn more...

Electric Candyland is a unique improvised theater show combining comedic improv scenes with technology such as video cameras, projectors and Internet connections. The result is sweet-wired improv, a sugared, fast-moving audience-pleasing style. Learn more...

Asian American Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Philip Kan Gotanda's Under the Rainbow at the Off-Market Theater. Learn more...

RebbeSoul infuses cutting-edge world beat with the influence of his Hebrew roots. Adrian West, The One-Man String Quartet, blurs the line between music and magic; it is beautiful music that is incredible to watch. These two acts will inspire and rejuvenate your very soul. Learn more...

15 minutes is a really funny and good looking Improv group (according to them, anyway). They say, "You should see our show!" Featuring Dan Burt, Robert Miles, Craig Dickson and special guests. Learn more...

Hip Hop By Da Bay features live performances captured at The Black Box and Expressions. This show looks at the next generation of artists coming from the Bay. Hosted by Jahi with special interviews by DeMarco. Learn more...

San Francisco-based trio The Ramp will play for a night of very free jazz accompanied by live projections and sound design courtesy of Eric Khuenl and Khalil Karn (co-incidentally in the band). Learn more...

Come say goodbye to performer and host Jonathan Caplan and watch as the cities best Improvisors come out to bid him farewell! Learn more...

Improv Revolution presents guest improv groups on the third Thursday of the month. The January 20th guest group is Blue Blanket Improv. Catch one of the hottest comedy improv troupes in town! Learn more...

Some of the best improvisers in the Bay Area will come together weekly to present Improv Revolution. Come see some of the hottest improvers perform their Long Form improv for you. Learn more...

The Legal Briefs (Diana Brown, Howard Stone and special guests) will take the audience inside a world of "Law and Order," "Court TV" and personal injury attorneys. They'll present a fully-improvised comedy, inspired by TV crime drama and created from the suggestions of the audience-turned-jury. Learn more...

Syndication is a love letter to television! Hosted by raconteurs Barry Weir and Diana Brown, past guests have included comic filmmaker Sam Shaw and reality-show infiltrator Harmon Leon. The subject is TV--tributes, spoofs and more! Learn more...

Will Franken asks: What would comedy look like if it didn't conform to the standard, "let me tell you about me and my weird life" formulas of traditional stand-up? What would it look like if it were cerebral, satirical and character-driven? Why, it would look a lot like this! Learn more...

See what happens when comedian Harmon Leon injects a little reality into "reality" shows. Using his own video footage, The Harmon Chronicles shows the host infiltrating such reality TV shows as Blind Date and Juiced (starring OJ Simpson)! Learn more...

Outrageous, uplifting, moving, funny and physical improvised performances by two of the Bay Area's talented performers: Presently Surprized at the Off-Market Theater. Learn more...

An all-star improv jam featuring some of the best improvisers in The Bay Area! Learn more...

The Legal Briefs will take the audience inside a world of law and order, "Court TV" and personal injury attorneys. They'll present a fully-improvised comedy, inspired by "TV Crime Drama", created from the suggestions of the audience-turned-jury! Learn more...

Custom Made Theater Company presents the world premiere musical Bye-Bye, Bin Laden!, a politically-charged, broadly-comic show. Learn more...

Dog Squared Productions in association with C.A.F.E. presents the world premiere of Persistent Vegetative State a dark political comedy about three women and a political campaign. Learn more...

The Off-Market Theater presents a dynamic duo trick of comedy and improv: Legal Briefs and Lyrikenesis. Learn more...