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BATS Improv: Four Tickets
Four Tickets to a show of your choice. The BATS Main Stage Company performs every Friday and Saturday night at 8:00. Shows are either virtual or take place in BATS’ Bayfront Theater at historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco’s scenic Marina District. Shows change every month. Schedule is listed online. Tickets can be used individually or in any combination. Advanced booking required online—passes are not accepted at the door. Expires June 30, 2025.
BATS Improv is a professional theatre company and an artistic community that cultivates and innovates the craft of improvised theatre through engaging, playful, creative performance and training.
Founded in 1986, we are the most highly acclaimed and longest-running improvised theatre company and school in San Francisco and all of Northern California.
BATS Improv is more than a theatre company and a school. We are a center for improvised theatre — an integrated universe of improv. We are a community of people who share our vision, who want to challenge themselves, have fun, and connect with others who feel the same way.
BATS-Style Improv
The BATS style of improvised theatre is unique in the improv landscape — a one-of-a-kind blend of theatre, comedy, and acting that’s quite different from stand-up or sketch. We pioneered this form of theatre starting more than 30 years ago, and it continues to evolve as we do.
The BATS style of improv has been described as radical cooperation in action. Our ensemble of actors seamlessly works together to create a rich, theatrical world inhabited by truthfully acted, well-developed characters. The result is a unique and thrilling theatre experience that stands toe-to-toe with scripted work. The collaborative imagination can go places the solitary imagination cannot.
At BATS Improv, we’re all about the story, not the joke. We don’t have stock characters or established bits. Instead, we aim to create theatre that tells a story collaboratively and spontaneously. Nothing is ever scripted or planned, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Everything you see at BATS is completely improvised, created on the spot and in the moment. It’s real. It’s funny. It’s theatre.
Company & Theater
The members of our Main Stage Company are professional actors who are among the leading practitioners of improvised theatre in the country and the world.
Our 200-seat Bayfront Theater is a professional performance space and has been our home since 1997. It is uniquely situated on the shores of San Francisco Bay and offers spectacular views along with ample parking. We perform shows every weekend of the year and keep our ticket prices low to help make this exciting form of live theatre accessible to all audiences.
Four Tickets to a show of your choice. The BATS Main Stage Company performs every Friday and Saturday night at 8:00. Shows are either virtual or take place in BATS’ Bayfront Theater at historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco’s scenic Marina District. Shows change every month. Schedule is listed online. Tickets can be used individually or in any combination. Advanced booking required online—passes are not accepted at the door. Expires June 30, 2025.
BATS Improv is a professional theatre company and an artistic community that cultivates and innovates the craft of improvised theatre through engaging, playful, creative performance and training.
Founded in 1986, we are the most highly acclaimed and longest-running improvised theatre company and school in San Francisco and all of Northern California.
BATS Improv is more than a theatre company and a school. We are a center for improvised theatre — an integrated universe of improv. We are a community of people who share our vision, who want to challenge themselves, have fun, and connect with others who feel the same way.
BATS-Style Improv
The BATS style of improvised theatre is unique in the improv landscape — a one-of-a-kind blend of theatre, comedy, and acting that’s quite different from stand-up or sketch. We pioneered this form of theatre starting more than 30 years ago, and it continues to evolve as we do.
The BATS style of improv has been described as radical cooperation in action. Our ensemble of actors seamlessly works together to create a rich, theatrical world inhabited by truthfully acted, well-developed characters. The result is a unique and thrilling theatre experience that stands toe-to-toe with scripted work. The collaborative imagination can go places the solitary imagination cannot.
At BATS Improv, we’re all about the story, not the joke. We don’t have stock characters or established bits. Instead, we aim to create theatre that tells a story collaboratively and spontaneously. Nothing is ever scripted or planned, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Everything you see at BATS is completely improvised, created on the spot and in the moment. It’s real. It’s funny. It’s theatre.
Company & Theater
The members of our Main Stage Company are professional actors who are among the leading practitioners of improvised theatre in the country and the world.
Our 200-seat Bayfront Theater is a professional performance space and has been our home since 1997. It is uniquely situated on the shores of San Francisco Bay and offers spectacular views along with ample parking. We perform shows every weekend of the year and keep our ticket prices low to help make this exciting form of live theatre accessible to all audiences.