Bay Area ImprovTheaters
Venues where you can take classes, host shows, and see performances across the Bay Area.
All Out Comedy
Oakland, CA
At All Out Comedy Theater, Improv is our passion and Community is our mantra. We're a welcoming stage for veteran improvisors and an inviting theater for people from all walks of life. Our classes are inclusive, our shows are engaging, and our cast are talented, approachable storytellers who are sure to make you laugh.
BATS Improv
San Francisco, CA
BATS Improv is a vibrant nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, dedicated to the art of improvised theatre with a mission to change lives through creativity, collaboration, and joyful play. Our classes and performances are crafted to help participants understand that there are no wrong choices in improv—only possibilities waiting to be discovered.
Endgames Improv
San Francisco, CA
Endgames Improv stages the highest quality improv comedy in the Bay Area and creates a welcoming community for students of any experience level to hone their craft in improv, sketch, and experimental comedy. Our unique philosophy is to educate artists through accessible classes and ample performance opportunities that begin with your first course. We develop fast, bold, fun shows driven by memorable characters.
Lamorinda Improv Theater
Lamorinda Improv Theater (LIT) is building a community around improv in Lamorinda and beyond, offering classes, jams, and performances for kids, teens, and adults. Located in Orinda’s charming and vibrant Theater Square, LIT dives right into the fun of improv. From the very first class, people are creating, connecting, and laughing together. Our classes and jams feel like a party—welcoming, high-energy, and full of laughter, play, and new friends.
Leela
San Francisco, CA
Leela is a holistic improvisational theatre company and training center that strives to continue the great San Francisco improv legacy begun by Del Close and The Committee. Inspired by the ancient Sanskrit word, Leela was founded to create, support, and produce new original works while encompassing the art of improvisation. Every work created is based around Leela’s powerful mission of truthful, artistic play.
Moment Improv Theatre
San Francisco, CA
To teach adults how to play again and humans how to be better communicators through the lens of improv comedy. Anyone can do improv and the skills you pick up along the way will change every interaction you have. The soft skills you will learn will help you find more connection, more possibilities, and more fun in life on and off the stage.
Provocation Theatre
Berkeley, CA
Provocation Theatre was founded in 2023 with the mission to uplift creative performance through laughter, community, and heart. Bring your new ideas home. This is the space to try: try out, try on, try something new. As the Bay Areas’s only boutique improv experience, we are adept at delivering an elevated creative mission. We proudly bring new community members up while challenging longstanding members to define their artistic pillars. We are the proud host of Yas! And festival: a queer forward comedy festival in July. We are proudly queer and fem owned, operated, and forward space.
Synergy Theater
Walnut Creek, CA
Synergy Theater performs full-length improvised plays in a variety of styles and formats. We strive to create theater with wonderful stories, compelling characters, and the vibrant spontaneity of the art of improvisation. In addition to our innovative performances, we share our passion for improvisation by teaching classes through our well-renowned training academy, bringing innovation to companies and organizations, hosting community improv jams, and providing ongoing theater enrichment programs in our local schools to ensure the next generation of performer and audience.
Team Theatre
Pleasanton, CA
At TEAM Theatre, we offer engaging youth theatre classes and performing arts programs for aspiring performers ages 3 and up. Whether your child is new to the stage or ready to grow their talent, our programs inspire creativity, build confidence, and teach the full journey from script to spotlight. Through acting, storytelling, music, and movement, students learn what it really takes to bring a production to life—all while having fun and making new friends.