Previous Dark Room Stuff
2010
Mike Schmidt doesn't want to be "That Guy" but sadly, he might not have a
choice.
Every week on his brutally funny podcast, "The 40 Year Old Boy," Mike fights a
war between the man he is and the man he wants to be. Talking at the speed of
his head, he tells stories of a life suspended somewhere between cautionary tale
and cruel joke.
Now, Mike brings this verbal mosh pit to San Francisco for two nights onstage at
The Dark Room in the Mission District. Hosted by Bucky Sinister.
The Sound of Young America can be heard in the Bay Area on KALW (91.7 FM) at 2pm
on Wednesdays.
For more information, visit maximumfun.org.
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Comedian Charlie Ballard is a San Francisco Native whose made a splash on the national comedy scene. Charlie's been seen on LOGO, Comedy Central, NBC's America's Got Talent, and has been featured in publications such as the The Indian Country, Campus Magazine and the Advocate Magazine. Charlie's wowed audiences from San Francisco to Toronto, Canada with his slapstick, physical and observational humor. Don't miss out on a fantastic show that is sure to be a fun evening of stand up comedy!
An evening of dance, singing and storytelling!
Come on out for an awesome night of improv and sketch comedy!
We are back from our show at the LA Improv fesitval by iO West and are excited for this next show back in the bay! This time we'll be featuring our good friends, Kamikaze Theory, for some hilarious sketch comedy. For more information, check out hobofishimprov.com.
Tickets: $10 at the door,
and $7 online at hobofishimprov.com.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
10pm
Snob Theater is a show that features the best in the Bay Area's indie
rock bands and stand-up comedians. The small 50+ seat theater setting
makes for the most intimate of performances and provides a unique and
exciting atmosphere. Created and organized by Bay Area comedian/music
blogger Shawn Robbins, Snob Theater is an event that showcases the
comfort of the performers as they take chances in a stripped-down
setting.
Comedians:
Miles K
Coree Spencer
Loren Kraut
Dave Thomason
Musical Guests:
Sean Hayes
T.V. Mike and the Scarecrowes
Hilarious Stories of horrific heartbreak!
Terrifying True Tales of Romance gone Awry!
In this autobiographical one-man show, comedian and Bay Area favorite Louis Katz (HBO, Comedy Central) repeatedly falls for the wrong women, from a deceitful Brazilian bombshell to a sexy homeless heroin addict. Yet somehow, Louis finds humor in this series of raunchy true stories told in hilarious, graphic detail.
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be glad you’re not him.
Will this hopeless romantic turn into a hardened cynic?
Will he ever find true love?
Are his heart and his dick conspiring to destroy him?
Find out at... "Kicked in the Balls of my Heart!!!!"
Please join us for an evening of performances by:
Nanna Candelaria
Crystal Silmi
Deshret Dance Company
Deshret's Sister Troupe
Classes and students of Darker Still Studios
Experience the unique talents of Jeremiah the Juggler! Blending a dazzling display of juggling and wizardry with hilarious stage antics, his graceful yet commanding presence is sure to have you simultaneously holding your breath and howling with laughter!
Facebook Link.
Tickets at the door: $10 general, $7 kids under 12.
Thursday and Friday at 7pm
July 1 - 2, 2010
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Conceptual artist Spy Emerson creates gallery bound costumes, sets, and a story based on her experiences as a crewmember of the acclaimed Swimming Cities art projects. The play performance is a dark comedy about human exploration, inspired and grotesque. Following a successful float down the Hudson River, the Swimming Cities crew went to Slovenia; built art boats from junk, and navigated the Adriatic Sea to Venice, Italy. The culture-jammers spent three weeks living in the boats on the water en route to crash the Venice Biennale with their outsider art, an unrecognized genre by the institution. In the performance, Emerson plays two roles, herself as a disenchanted art marauder, and a cat that becomes the unwilling mascot of the motley crew. The cast includes Dottie Lux of Red Hots Burlesque, poetic luminary Dr. Hal Robins, and Gooby Herms, among other local talents.
The show at the Dark Room Theater is performed one night only, and then installed for exhibition in July’s art murmur at Warehouse 416 in Oakland. Happy Forever: The Life and Death of an Italian Cat is performed Saturday June 26th 7pm, 8pm, and 9pm.
Images and video available at www.spygirlfriday.com.
Read about it in SF Weekly!
http://www.sfweekly.com/events/happy-forever-the-life-and-death-of-an-italian-cat-2023541/
Tickets: $6 at the door.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Three shows: 7, 8, 9pm
Snob Theater is a show that features the best in the Bay Area's indie rock bands and stand-up comedians. The small 50+ seat theater setting makes for the most intimate of performances and provides a unique and exciting atmosphere. Created and organized by Bay Area comedian/music blogger Shawn Robbins, Snob Theater is an event that showcases the comfort of the performers as they take chances in a stripped-down setting.
Comedians:
Red Scott
Melanie O'Brien
Alex Koll
DJ Real
Musical Guests:
Judgement Day
Stomacher
With special guest Think Tank!
Tickets: $10 at the door.
Thursday and Friday at 8pm
June 17 - 18, 2010
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Submitted for your approval...time: the present. Place: a small dark stage found deep in the heart of the Mission. It is a stage as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears, the summit of his knowledge and the black box we call The Dark Room Theater. Once again, Spring has returned with its promise of renewal, but there's a sign post up ahead...next stop: Dark Room Productions' Twilight Zone Live: Season VII.
Once again we assemble eight directors, four Rod Serlings and various "commercials" for four weekends of ironic thrillers from the Twilight Zone pantheon performed live on stage!
Each of the four weekends is completely unique, with new episodes, new "Rods" and new commercials! Discounts will be give at the door for anyone wanting to see all four weekends...which we recommend! Talk to our door person for details.
"Applauded wildly...played for sheer fun!" -- San Francisco Chronicle
STARRING:
ALEXIA STANIOTES
CAMERON ENG
JAY HUSTON
& REY ZEGRI
as ROD SERLING
Episodes include:
May 21 & 22
"Living Doll" by Ralph Hoy
"Cavender Is Coming" by Max Hartman
May 28 & 29
"One For the Angels" by Rey Zegri
"The Howling Man" by Damien Chacona, Jason Lewis & Andy Wenger
June 4 & 5
"Escape Clause" by Peter Illes
"Walking Distance" by Peter Kim & Frisco
June 11 & 12
"5 Characters In Search of an Exit" by Patrick Simms
"The Mask" by Ralph Hoy
Read about in SF Weekly!
http://www.sfweekly.com/events/twilight-zone-live-season-vii-1966276/
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From the bottom of the cabbage patch to the outer regions of the Horse Head Nebula.
"Dan Carbone is not of this earth! He is a true transplant from the real nether-lands. Not from the land of tulips and windmills, but from a region between retardation and genius! His mind is a bridge where wisdom and infantilization cross deep waters. His mental imagery contains all the garbage that has been flung at him from kindergarten on up. The deep waters of his mind have washed that garbage and beached it in strange formations for all to view. Like seashells they sing the tunes of their birthplace." — George Kuchar
Following last month's smash series of sold out performances, Bay Area absurdist writer/ performer Dan Carbone (whom the SF Weekly described as "kind of the Daniel Johnston of performance art") returns to the Dark Room for an encore performance of new works including "Ol' Blue Balls" about a chance encounter between Frank Sinatra and a little girl in the 1950s, "Debbie and the Demons" (the less said, the better) and "The Koreans," about a surreal, true-life encounter between Carbone and some young Korean students on the streets of downtown Oakland.
"He's kind of the Daniel Johnston of performance art… Dan Carbone possesses an epic dedication to his art… Plenty of people (art school druggies, mostly) dabble in being super weird, but they don't have the stamina, the locked-jawed commitment, the self-knowledge, or the skill of Carbone…" — Hiya Swanhuyser, SF Weekly
"A long cherished and uniquely committed Bay Area talent who remarkably has eluded actually being committed. The late-show slot is altogether apt. Carbone's stage occupies a space between Pee Wee's Playhouse and Night Gallery. In so far as the Dark Room shows — which began in February — stand to be a regular thing, Satan and audiences willing, we can all rest uneasier." — Robert Alvia, SF Guardian
"A unique genius reminiscent of Jonathan Winters." — Gene Price, Bay Times
Website: dancarbone.net.
San Francisco sketch comedy team Uphill Both Ways is back to celebrate Dave's 37th birthday! They'll perform some of their favorite skits from their first 8 years plus a few new ones...and a few surprises. Speaking of surprises, Dave thinks he's getting the ticket money for his birthday, but actually all proceeds will go to The Gaiety Project, the revival of a only-in-SF cutting-edge vintage performance house in the beautiful, downtown Tenderloin. More info at http://www.foulplaysf.com/thegaiety.
Since 2002, UBW has performed in over a dozen Bay Area venues and at numerous international comedy festivals in SF, NYC, LA, Washington DC, Dallas, Atlanta, Vancouver and Toronto. Their short films have been seen at film festivals across the U.S. and Canada and televised on Comedy Central and The Hotel Networks.
Snob Theater is a show that features the best in the Bay Area's indie rock bands and stand-up comedians. The small 50+ seat theater setting makes for the most intimate of performances and provides a unique and exciting atmosphere. Created and organized by Bay Area comedian/music blogger Shawn Robbins, Snob Theater is an event that showcases the comfort of the performers as they take chances in a stripped-down setting.
Comedians:
Bill Coladonato
Kelly McCarronv
Kevin Munroe
Brandon Lynch
Musical Guests:
Grand Lake
Michael Zapruder
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Dystopian Veneer is a unconventional, darkly comedic satire about a few various causes and effects loose in the current phase of human society. From the meltdown of Wall Street to the questionable influence of secret societies, modern religion's vapid fecklessness, and humanity's potential for actual evolution at this juncture, a representative operator lays out the halftime report of an organization whose social contract expires at midnight, December 21, 2012. The typical lines separating stage performance from real life will be disregarded, and the audience brought into new roles as contributors, instigators, and willing agents thereafter. This is not a show for those who are desperately clinging to failing structures and crippled traditions. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to consciously crash a system in order to promote effective reconstruction, take a trip through Dystopian Veneer. Maybe things out there in the world really aren't what you think they are...and there's more you could be doing about it. Clock's ticking.
Dystopian Veneer is the work of Paul Addis. His last stage appearance was the gripping, gritty, and unnerving life of Hunter S. Thompson from 1968-1971, Gonzo — A Brutal Chrysalis. After taking time to answer for the iconoclastic torching of Burning Man's wooden idol in 2007, Paul returns to the stage with a passion for both the real and unreal souls as they struggle to define their new roles in the history of the future past.
Official website: dystopianveneer.com.
Read about it on sfbg.com!
IFYW presents the premiere of their short film "Goodnight Harvey." Featuring a special live performance by The Muppos.
Sam, a young man who has always been obsessed with puppets, is having a hard time adjusting to his new job as a puppet skinner's apprentice. At least things were easier when the puppets were delivered dead. But when a puppet named Harvey wakes up under Sam's blade he must confront the realities of his profession and choose between helping the creature or carrying out the duties of his profession.
Read about it on Examiner.com!
Free!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
7pm and 9pm
Come on out for an awesome night of improv and sketch comedy!
We are back from our show at the LA Improv fesitval by iO West and are excited for this next show back in the bay! This time we'll be featuring our good friends, Kamikaze Theory, for some hilarious sketch comedy.
Tickets: $10 at the door,
and $7 online at hobofishimprov.com.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
10pm
Tickets: $10 at the door.
Thursdays at 8pm
April 22 - May 6, 2010
Come celebrate your huge tax refund with your very favorite virgins. Alternatively, let us fill your government-raped heart with laughs after you send that fat check to Uncle Sam. And if that weren't enough, all this will be done... with MUSIC! Musical accompaniment by the one and only Min Kahng.
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Hey there Chicken Scratch fans. We are coming back to the stage and are itching to entertain, shock and amaze you! We have four nights of improv planned at the famed Dark Room in the Mission. It's been awhile since we've been to the Mission so truly anything can happen. Between American Idol, Tiger Woods' text messages, and iPads, we have a lot to work with. Come join the fun!
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snob theater is a small, all ages show offering intimate performances
by musical artists and comedians. there are probably less than 50
seats in the club. otherwise, you can stand in the back by the bar.
you must get there and claim your reservation no later than half an
hour after the doors open (depending on the night, usually at either 7
or 7:30pm). door cover is $10, sometimes more if we have special
guests. so buy tickets online.
if online tickets sell out, don't despair. to snag a standing spot,
line up before the show. once you're in, the show doesn't start till
about an hour after doors open. music plays in the background; softly
at first, so loud that you have a hard time hearing your friends as
the night gets later. lights are dim, and they get darker as the
evening progresses until you can barely see your feet. once the show
starts, the announcer will demand rapt attention. no chatting allowed.
cell phones - no way. this is not a hang out for your buddies with
live music in the background. the artists get the full attention here,
and it makes for a most wonderful music venue.
good luck! and rock on.
hosted by: shawn robbins
comedians:
jules posner - http://www.facebook.com/julesposner
emily heller - http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/comics/EmilyHeller
natasha muse - http://natashamuse.com/
mary van note - http://www.maryvannote.com/
musical guests:
dave smallen - http://www.davesmallen.com/
birdmonster - http://birdmonstermusic.com/
Facebook Event Page.
Bay Area absurdist writer/ performer Dan Carbone (whom the SF Bay Guardian has described as “Jonathan Winters meets Cocteau”) returns to the Dark Room for an evening of new works including “Ol’ Blue Balls” about a chance encounter between Frank Sinatra and a little girl in the 1950s, “Debbie and the Demons” a woman wreaks havoc all around the globe (sort of like if Godzilla were directed by Kurosawa) and “The Koreans,” about a surreal, true-life encounter between Carbone and some young Korean students on the streets of downtown Oakland.
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Pandemonium reigns as lovable blowhard Al Czervik disrupts an idyllic snobatorium, The Bushwood Country Club, much to the chagrin of stuffy Judge Smails. Meanwhile, college-bound caddy Danny Noonan must decide whether it's smarter to kiss up to Smails for the coveted Caddy Scholarship, or take the advice of semi-suave playboy Ty Webb and just be the ball.
Everything will come to a head in 18 grueling holes of high-stakes golf...just so long as shell-shocked assistant greenskeeper Carl doesn't vaporize the fairway in search of a pesky gopher.
Caddyshack: Live! is adapted and directed by Jim Fourniadis and stars Jody Frandle, Bronson McKinley, Austin Brown, Tim Kay, Jim Jeske, Mikl Em, Jay Huston, Erin Lucas, Dawn Corine, Guy Silvestro, Peter Kim, Bryce Byerley and Christina Shonkwiler as The Gopher.
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An awesome night of Improv!
Tickets: $10 at the door,
and $7 online at hobofishimprov.com.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
10pm
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“Dan Carbone is not of this earth! He is a true transplant from the real nether-lands. Not from the land of tulips and windmills, but from a region between retardation and genius! His mind is a bridge where wisdom and infantilization cross deep waters. His mental imagery contains all the garbage that has been flung at him from kindergarten on up. The deep waters of his mind have washed that garbage and beached it in strange formations for all to view. Like seashells they sing the tunes of their birthplace.” – George Kuchar
Bay Area absurdist writer/ performer Dan Carbone (whom the SF Bay Guardian has described as “Jonathan Winters meets Cocteau”) presents an evening of two award-winning Solo Performance pieces, “Up From the Ground” and “There Be Monsters!”
“Up From the Ground” is a tragi-comedy about a Southern family entrance by a holy flower-like thing growing in their cornfield that Brad Rosenstein of the SF Guardian pronounced as “Brilliantly Demented!”
“There Be Monsters!” is a collection of surreal vignettes and dream sequences involving characters such as a monkey astronaut, a dead Elvis waiting on the Highway of Eternity in a limousine and Jesus paired with a hallucinatory monkey named Jungle Bell. Michael Scott Moore of the SF Weekly said of this piece that it “almost made me fall out of my chair.”
Check out the promo video “Debbie & the Demons!” by Mike Kuchar:
Tickets: $10 at the door.
Friday, March 5, 2010
10:30pm
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About Rick Shapiro:
“Searingly honest, the most transgressive comedian in America today…He’s the toast of New York’s Lower East Side underground scene” – Penthouse Magazine
“Equal parts Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Lou Reed. Shapiro is New York’s most lurid funnyman – a real star.” – NY Press
"…an explosive comedic talent, a sort of punk-rock, white Richard Pryor with a literary bent, part Iggy Pop, part Phillip Roth” – New York Observer
“Downtown New York provocateur Rick Shapiro debuts with a CD of hard-edged, uncompromising stand-up comedy. As far from the mainstream as it is, “Unconditional Love” still manages to speak universal truths and expose many of our follies.” – Billboard
“His pointed observations on pop culture are pure brilliance” – TimeOut New York
“Rick Shapiro is a top comedian” – Howard Stern
About Dan Carbone:
“Dan Carbone is not of this earth! He is a true transplant from the real nether-lands. Not from the land of tulips and windmills, but from a region between retardation and genius!” – George Kuchar, Cult Film Director
“The snatches of comic surrealism Carbone performed were among the funniest things I’ve ever seen on stage; hilarious and elegant and really, really weird.”
– Michael Scott Moore SF Weekly
“In a town where every conceivable wrinkle in solo theatre seems to have been ironed out long ago, Dan Carbone crept out from under the bed and lit the mattress on fire.” – Brad Rosenstein, Bay Guardian
Tickets: $8 at the door.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
10pm
Mary Van Note is a stand-up comedienne of the weird variety. She performs at colleges, clubs and festivals across the country and she is the creator and star of the award winning Independent Film Channel web series "The Mary Van Note Show: Gavin Really Wants Me." The San Francisco Bay Guardian called her a "Zine-Queen Comedian" as she regularly makes zines, crafts and mini-comics. Her specialties are stick-figures and cross-stitch.
More info about Mary: maryvannote.com
In a remote Italian fishing village lived a simple housecat. Not until her death, did her life get complicated. Based on a real happening, this is a fictional play about the unofficial mascot of the swimming cities of serenissima… and about her desecration.
Tickets: $10 at the door.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Three shows: 7, 8, 9pm
A hilarious night of Improv!
Tickets: $10 at the door,
and $7 online at hobofishimprov.com.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
10pm
Sammy Wegent and Allison Page can't possibly be serious. Not only did they date on and off for six months and do a show about it in December, they are now both single and living in the same apartment. It can't be healthy but it's most certainly hilarious. Wegent & Page are back with new material about breaking up, breaking down, and breaking barriers when it comes to love in general. Through sketches, improv, monologues, and their own brand of "professional" banter, Wegent & Page will make you laugh. A lot. Mostly because you'll be glad you're not in a two person comedy team with your ex.
Read more about it in the SF Weekly!
Tickets: $10 at the door.
Friday and Saturday at 8pm
February 12 - 13, 2010
Stepping out of their usual hang, FRISCO zips across town for two special shows at The Dark Room! In addition to their trademarked nonstop comedy that combines elements of both short and long form improv, the company is throwing in a little variety just for some...variety.
These shows will also include some stand-up comedy, a dash of musical comedy, a pinch of sketch comedy and more! Don't miss this chance to see FRISCO in a new light at The Dark Room, February 5 & 6!
The members of FRISCO are Breck Baird, Chris Blair, Austin Broyles, Anthony Hill, Brendan Hill, Colin Higgins, Peter Kim, Allison Page, and Shasta Phillips.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Crisis Hopkins / Pappy's / Things We Made
8PM
The Freeze / Good Neighbor / Pros From Dover
10:30PM
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Barrel Brothers / The Freeze /Barats and Bereta / Josie Long
8PM
Crisis Hopkins / Picnicface / Things We Made
10:30PM
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Business / Animosity Pierre
8PM
Friday, January 22, 2010
Black Sundays / Tang / The Cool Table
8PM
The Business / Waiting For Obama / 2-Man No Show
10:30PM
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Funny But Mean / Julie Brister: Fatparts / 2-Man No Show
8PM
Black Sundays / Waiting For Obama / Sara Benincasa's Agorafabulous!
10:30PM
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Robber Barons / The Skinny / Sidecar / The Internet
8PM
Friday, January 29, 2010
Convoy / Birthday Boys / We Are Nudes
8PM
Marvin Berry / The Skinny / Sidecar
10:30PM
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Funny But Mean /A Kiss From Daddy / Holly & Inessa
8PM
Long Pork / Marvin Berry / We Are Nudes
10:30PM
Tickets: $12 online at brownpapertickets.com/event/92762.
Thursdays - Saturdays,
January 15 - 30, 2010
8pm and 10:30pm
Things We Made offers an atmosphere to share unconventional creations.
Patrick Bulger and Jesse Fernandez, a comedy duo from space, present
thought-provoking pieces about anything from gangster rap to starfish
safety. Paul Marino brings to the stage a salad of wit, characters,
illustrations, movement, music, and even magic (illusion) from space.
The savory music of DJ Real is glazed by his passionate dance, and
broken up with one-man, tech-savvy skits and corny jokes from space.
To see video from previous shows check out thingswemade.com, a
website from space!
Tickets: $10 at the door.
Third Saturday of Every Month
10pm
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A solo comedy show written and performed by Cornelius M. Peter.
Medical Marijuana is a controversial issue on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. Is it legal? Who’s smoking it? Who’s selling it? Does it work? Is everyone faking it? Where can I get some? These are just a few of the questions people are always asking, now here’s a show that can give you the answers! As told by a “Bud-tender” in one of the nations first medical marijuana shops, The Pot Luck Club takes you right inside the shop and shows you what it’s like in what some call the “Amsterdam of America”, Hollywood California.
The true story of one man’s wild ride from a nice suburban childhood to the front lines of America’s War on Drugs, the Pot Luck Club takes you from marijuana’s shady past, through it’s strange present, and even gives you a look at its future. The Pot Luck Club tells you a tale so vivid and makes you laugh so hard you’ll walk out with the munchies!
Tickets: $10 at the door.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
8:00pm
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