California Noir-Off – Two Special Nights of Improv Theater

BATS Improv, the Bay Area’s premier improvisational performing company and improv training school and Impro Theatre, the critically acclaimed improv theater company from Los Angeles, will collaborate in a “California Noir-Off” for two nights at the newly remodeled, historic Presidio Theatre (99 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco), Friday and Saturday, November 8^th and 9^th.  Tickets and information

Two of the premier practitioners of full-length improvised plays pay tribute to the Godfathers of California Noir: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in a two night-festival of unscripted noir.

Impro Theatre from Los Angeles reunites with the company that spawned it, BATS Improv, for a split-bill of dames, detectives and double-crosses. Friday night they face off as The San Francisco team fashions a spontaneous homage to Hammett and L.A. improvises in the style of Chandler.  Both companies will join forces Saturday night for an improvised noir musical created and directed by BATS musical director Joshua Raoul Brody.