1ST ANNUAL PLAYGROUND COMEDY FESTIVAL

March 6-29, 2026
Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Admission-Free (Suggested Donation: $10-$30)

The PlayGround Comedy Festival is PlayGround’s first annual celebration of the best in comedic performance, including stand-up, improv, sketch, and comedic plays. The inaugural Comedy Festival will include 60 performances of 18 unique events taking place March 6-29, 2026, performed live at Potrero Stage and simulcast online.

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THE LINEUP:

A Stab In The Dark, presented by The Red Herrings
Sun, March 15 at 2:30pm; Sun, March 22 at 7pm; Mon, March 23 at 8:30pm

The Bomb by Dana Schwartz
Thurs, March 26 8:30pm; Sat, March 28 at 2:30pm; Sat, March 28 at 7pm; Sun, March 29 at 5:30pm

Culturally Distressed: Live, by Loic Pichot and Miyoko Sakatani
Fri, March 27 at 7pm; Sat, March 28 at 8:30pm; Sun, March 29 at 4pm

Emil Amok, Anchorman: The News Made Me Do It by Emil Guillermo
Sat, March 14 at 4pm; Sun, March 15 at 7pm; Mon, March 16 at 7pm; Thurs, March 19 7pm

Fancy Seeing You Here by Jiaxin Zheng
Sat, March 14 at 8:30pm; Sun, March 15 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 21 at 7pm

Gamesome Frolic: Improvised Comedy in the Stylings of the Bard; by Diana Brown, Radhika Rao, and Mick Shaffer
Sun, March 8 at 7pm; Sat, March 14 at 7pm; Sun, March 15 at 5:30pm

Give a Little Bit More by Ben Visini
Thurs, March 12 7pm; Sun, March 22 at 8:30pm; Sun, March 29 at 7pm

I Am Trying to Think of Some Way to Make the Title Shorter Because This One Is Way Too Long I Think We Can All Agree by Lee Archer
Sat, March 7 at 2:30pm; Sun, March 8 at 5:30pm & 8:30pm; Fri, March 13 at 7pm

I’m So Glad I Caught The Vomit In My Hand: A Show About Parenting by Torey Bookstein
Fri, March 6 at 7pm; Sat, March 7 at 4pm; Sun, March 8 at 2:30pm; Mon, March 9 at 7pm

Johnny Lonely’s Unhappy Hour by Joshua Brody
Thurs, March 26 7pm; Fri, March 27 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 28 at 4pm

Munch Ado About Improv, produced by The Fists of Improv (18+, Adults Only)
Fri, March 6 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 7 at 7pm; Sat, March 14 at 2:30pm

The Naked Stage presented by Improv Playhouse of San Francisco, produced by Tim Orr
Thurs, March 19 8:30pm; Sat, March 21 at 2:30pm and 8:30 pm, and Sun, March 22 at 5:30pm.

Off-Topic Improv
Sat, March 7 at 8:30pm; Sun, March 8 at 4pm; Mon, March 9 at 8:30pm

SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND; by Diana Brown, Josh Caldwell, Gordon Downs, Mark Gardiner, Sara Goetz, Matt Haley, and Erin Souza
Sun, March 22 at 4pm; Sat, March 28 at 5:30pm; Sun, March 29 at 2:30pm & 8:30pm

Tansu and Kirsten’s Very Best Friendship Show by Tansu Philip and Kirsten Baird
Fri, March 13 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 14 at 5:30pm; Sun, March 15 at 4pm

Unstuck by Olivia Levine
Fri, March 20 at 7pm; Sat, March 21 at 4pm; Mon, March 23 at 7pm

What’s Your Protest Song? An Improvised Musical by Melanie DuPuy and The Wypspers
Sat, March 7 at 5:30pm; Thurs, March 12 8:30pm; Mon, March 16 at 8:30pm

Women Off-Colour by Alondra Rios, Anelga Hajjar, and Mantra Radhakrishnan
Fri, March 20 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 21 at 5:30pm; Sun, March 22 at 2:30pm

PERFORMANCES BY DATE

Friday, March 6, 2026
7:00pm: I’m So Glad I Caught The Vomit In My Hand: A Show About Parenting
8:30pm: Munch Ado About Improv (18+, Adult Content)

Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:30pm: I Am Trying to Think of Some Way to Make the Title Shorter Because This One Is Way Too Long I Think We Can All Agree
4:00pm: I’m So Glad I Caught The Vomit In My Hand: A Show About Parenting
5:30pm: What’s Your Protest Song? An Improvised Musical
7:00pm: Munch Ado About Improv (18+, Adult Content)
8:30pm: Off-Topic Improv

Sunday, March 8, 2026
2:30pm: I’m So Glad I Caught The Vomit In My Hand: A Show About Parenting
4:00pm: Off-Topic Improv
5:30pm: I Am Trying to Think of Some Way to Make the Title Shorter Because This One Is Way Too Long I Think We Can All Agree
7:00pm: Gamesome Frolic- Improvised Comedy in the Stylings of the Bard
8:30pm: I Am Trying to Think of Some Way to Make the Title Shorter Because This One Is Way Too Long I Think We Can All Agree

Monday, March 9, 2026
7:00pm: I’m So Glad I Caught The Vomit In My Hand: A Show About Parenting
8:30pm: Off-Topic Improv

Thursday, March 12, 2026
7:00pm: Give a Little Bit More
8:30pm: What’s Your Protest Song? An Improvised Musical

Friday, March 13, 2026
7:00pm: I Am Trying to Think of Some Way to Make the Title Shorter Because This One Is Way Too Long I Think We Can All Agree
8:30pm: Tansu and Kirsten’s Very Best Friendship Show

Saturday, March 14, 2026
2:30pm: Munch Ado About Improv (18+, Adult Content)
4:00pm: Emil Amok, Anchorman: The News Made Me Do It
5:30pm: Tansu and Kirsten’s Very Best Friendship Show
7:00pm: Gamesome Frolic- Improvised Comedy in the Stylings of the Bard
8:30pm: Fancy Seeing You Here

Sunday, March 15, 2026
2:30pm: A Stab In The Dark
4:00pm: Tansu and Kirsten’s Very Best Friendship Show
5:30pm: Gamesome Frolic: Improvised Comedy in the Stylings of the Bard
7:00pm: Emil Amok, Anchorman: The News Made Me Do It
8:30pm: Fancy Seeing You Here

Monday, March 16, 2026
7:00pm: Emil Amok, Anchorman: The News Made Me Do it
8:30pm: What’s Your Protest Song? An Improvised Musical

Thursday, March 19, 2026
7:00pm: Emil Amok, Anchorman: The News Made Me Do It
8:30pm: Improv Playhouse of San Francisco

Friday, March 20, 2026
7:00pm: Unstuck
8:30pm: Women Off-Colour

Saturday, March 21, 2026
2:30pm: Naked Stage, Improv Playhouse of San Francisco
4:00pm: Unstuck
5:30pm: Women Off-Colour
7:00pm: Fancy Seeing You Here
8:30pm: Naked Stage, Improv Playhouse of San Francisco

Sunday, March 22, 2026
2:30pm: Women Off-Colour
4:00pm: The Last Download
5:30pm: Naked Stage, Improv Playhouse of San Francisco
7:00pm: A Stab In The Dark
8:30pm: Give a Little Bit More

Monday, March 23, 2026
7:00pm: Unstuck
8:30pm: A Stab In The Dark

Thursday, March 26, 2026
7:00pm: Johnny Lonely’s Unhappy Hour
8:30pm: The Bomb

Friday, March 27, 2026
7:00pm: Culturally Distressed: Live
8:30pm: Johnny Lonely’s Unhappy Hour

Saturday, March 28, 2026
2:30pm: The Bomb
4:00pm: Johnny Lonely’s Unhappy Hour
5:30pm: The Last Download
7:00pm: The Bomb
8:30pm: Culturally Distressed: Live

Sunday, March 29, 2026
2:30pm: The Last Download
4:00pm: Culturally Distressed: Live
5:30pm: The Bomb
7:00pm: Give a Little Bit More
8:30pm: The Last Download