2263 Mission Street, between 18th and 19th San Francisco, CA 94110
Call 415-401-7987 for info.
The Dark Room is your one-stop shop for comedy, theater, events, entertainment,
and rehearsal space -- as well as recording studio facilities, both pre- and post-production.
Mort Fiskarmann is a good man. He buys fish for a living. He plays by the rules. But a chance encounter with a pile of dead prostitutes has changed all that. Now, he's being harassed by the cops for murders he couldn't even begin to commit. Dick MacGuffin, shabby Private Eye and shady customer extraordinaire may be able to help Mort find the real killer. But first, he's going to need some money. And a sammitch. Also, a pack of smokes. And some more money... Oh, some of those eclairs that are like little eclairs? From the writing team that brought you The Safe Way and Random Idiot Factor comes a story about the dark and funny underbelly of noir-era San Francisco that never was nor should have been.
A Dark Room Production in association with Ham Pants Productions.
Starring: Tim Kay, Damien Chacona, Travis Eichhorn, Cameron Eng, Jim Fourniadis, John Harrison, Monica Hernandez, Becky Hirshfeld, Krylon, Dave Mckew, Bronson McKinley, Khamara Pettus, Lionel Rouge, Carrina Schindler, Craig Souza, Dee Trimble, Andrew Wenger, and more! Featuring the Music of: John Flaw. Written by: Andy Wenger & Damien Chacona. Directed by: Andy Wenger.
BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL! For every Thursday show, buy two tickets online and you'll get the second ticket at half-price!
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm May 3 - 26, 2012
Snob Theater
Snob Theater is a one of a kind show that combines performances by today's best in indie rock with equally feted stand-up comedians. Originating at San Francisco's Dark Room Theater, Snob Theater creates a magnet for smart and entertaining performances and provides a unique and exciting atmosphere for the lucky audience. Produced and hosted by comedian/music blogger Shawn Robbins, Snob Theater showcases the comfort of the performers as they take chances in a stripped-down setting. Musicians have included the likes of Sean Hayes, Jonah Matranga, Emily Jane White, Foxtail Brigade, Con Brio, Picture Atlantic and Judgement Day, while the comedians range from local favorites to stars of Comedy Central, Chelsea Lately, and HBO. Each show is also not without a special guest or two. So you never know who you'll see at Snob Theater...
Snob Theater has also been featured in events with Yelp, Noise Pop Festival, and Bridgetown Comedy Festival.
"Snob Theater is genius. It's a beautiful and truly awesome fusion of great comedy and great local music. I came out for Snob Theater a little while back and was beyond impressed. It was such a fun concept and housed in the Dark Room it's got a ton of character."
- Jessica T., Yelp.com
" When I reluctantly performed on it a few months ago, I quickly realized the "Snobs" know what they're doing. I don't know how they know, but the show and the flow of show between musicians and comedians is Tony the Tiger quality grrrrrrrrrrrreat! It doesn't really matter who's on the show, it's just a cool mix. The whole is greater than the sum of its blah blah blah. You get it. It's like Voltron."
- W. Kamau Bell, SF Weekly + The W. Kamau Bell Curve
"The Snob Theater showcase at The Hawthorne Theater (at Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2011 in Portland, OR) was pretty solid gold."
- Alison Hallett, Portland Mercury
Comedians:
Rory Scovel
Karl Hess
Mike Drucker
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan
$1 off drink tickets will be provided for anyone willing to visit the nearby bars.
Friday, May 25, 2012 10:00pm
The Business
Best Alternative Comedy show in San Francisco. Featuring comedians from Comedy Central, SXSW, and the Comedians of Comedy tour!
Tickets: $5 at the door.
Every
Wednesday 8PM $5
Bad Movie Night
Every
Sunday 8PM $6.99 (new price starting 1/5/12)
In the tradition of Mystery Science Theater 3000, except you can't tell which ones are the robots. — David Manning
Cinema is our culture's dominant art form.
It holds up a mirror to who we are.
It reflects our society, our dreams, our hopes, our fears.
Our films are how future generations are going to judge us.
Unfortunately, most of them suck.
Seriously, though—ever notice how you can't walk down the street or open a magazine or stand in line at a store or simply exist without ads for some dumbass multi-zillion dollar movie about a talking kangaroo
being shoved down your throat?
And then they expect you to pay fifteen dollars to see it in some googolplex, and after sitting through a half hour of commercials? Or watch it on DVD and have to sit through even more commercials and anti-piracy ads that you can't skip past? Doesn't it all just piss you off?
If so—or if you just like to have a good time—then Bad Movie Night is for you.
Laugh with the hosts riffing on the movie. Yell your own comments. Try to figure out what the hell "Skull Films!" means. Help yourself to the free popcorn. Enjoy the non-alcoholic beverage of your choice purchased from the store across the street. Don't worry if the guy behind the counter glares at you. He does that to everyone.
Best of all, only pay six measly bucks (and ninety-nine measly cents).
Patton Oswalt has this great bit on his 2009 album My Weakness is Strong about how you only have to go back in time ten years now to wow people with how much things have changed—what with iPods, Barack Obama, et cetera.
If I were to go back to 1999, I'd blow minds by telling people that vampires are cool again.
It blows my mind even now. Here's the thing: I became involved in the goth scene in 1999, and holy fucking shit, did those kids dislike vampires. With a passion. Vampires didn't have much cachet in the overall culture anyway, but that was especially true amongst the goths, who hated being associated with them.
I was never really sure why, except that even before Columbine, the scene was going through a major identity crisis wherein the people who dressed all in black and went to goth clubs and went to goth music shows and participated on goth music lists hated being called "goth." Many would angrily describe themselves as "rivetheads," or even more clumsily, "Not-A-Goth." Seriously.
But they were mostly easygoing until you mentioned the word "vampire," and then the spooky shit hit the goddamned fan. Goth, they would insist, has nothing whatsoever to do with vampires. Shut up, no it does not! And if you happened to, say, have in your possession a videotape of them on an A&E documentary about vampires from the year before, one in which they appeared with big fake fangs—well, um, okay, they were younger then, and it didn't count.
So, anyway, yeah. This current vampire resurgence is still a little weird to me.
This week's feature is from those pre-millennial days, and it also spawned this Jon Bon Jovi-starring sequel:
But that's not the we're going to watch. We're stuck with James Woods, not Jon Bon Jovi. And no sparkling vampires.
Your hosts Sherilyn Connelly, Mike Spiegelman, and Alexia Staniotes will not sparkle, either.
Upcoming Phlegms:
May 27, 2012
Ghosts of Mars
After this movie, John Carpenter took nearly a decade off from filmmaking. See if you can figure out why.
Ghostly pandemonium reigns.
Hosts:
Jim Fourniadis, Mikl-Em, Tristan Buckner and other venusians.
June 3, 2012
Skyline
Aliens attack Los Angeles. But the people they attack are kinda douchey, so it evens out.
Horizontal wackiness ensues.
Hosts:
Sherilyn Connelly, Mike Spiegelman, Dan Foley, and other skywatchers.
June 10, 2012, 6pm Special Event (in a box!):
Rhiannon and Sherilyn's Alien and Aliens Double Feature Birthday Sleepover!
To celebrate Rhiannon and Sherilyn's birthday(s), we're going to riff on the first two Alien movies, the ones that (mostly) didn't suck.
The sorta-kinda-sequel Prometheus will have been released a few days before, so be sure it to see it first, or these movies will make no sense at all.
Bring your jammies and blankets and get cozy. Necking with the birthday girls encouraged.
Xenomorphic wackiness will ensue. SHOW BEGINS AT 6PM, BITCHES.
June 17, 2012
Cowboys & Aliens
There are cowboys. There are aliens. Woohoo.
Cowpokin' wackiness ensues.
Hosts:
Jim Fourniadis, Maura Sipila, Alexia Staniotes, and other roughriders.
June 24, 2012
Battle: Los Angeles
Not to be confused with Battle of Los Angeles. Actually, on second thought, go ahead and confuse them. I don't even care anymore.
Sprawling pandemonium reigns.
Hosts:
Sherilyn Connelly, Mikl-Em, Rose Lacy, and other angelenos.
July 1, 2012
The Fast and the Furious
Vin Diesel drives cars really fast, and has anger management issues, evidently.
Ragey wackiness ensues.
Hosts:
Sherilyn Connelly, Mikl-Em, Alexia Staniotes, and other racers.
July 8, 2012
2 Fast 2 Furious
More of the same! Except it's numerical now.
Geometric pandemonium reigns.
Hosts:
Jim Fourniadis, Sherilyn Connelly, Tristan Buckner, and other notations.
Hosts:
Sherilyn Connelly, Mikl-Em, Tim Kay, and other gaijin.
July 22, 2012
Fast & Furious
Even still more of the same, with Vin Diesel's name back on the poster.
Article-free pandemonium reigns.
Hosts:
Jim Fourniadis, Mike Spiegelman, Maura Sipila, and other ampersands.
July 29, 2012
Fast Five
And more of even more still of the same, this time with The Rock and Vin Diesel, which is also the more of the same.
Chest-bumping wackiness ensues.
Hosts:
Sherilyn Connelly, Mikl-Em, Ira Emsig, and other rockers.
August 5, 2012
9 1/2 Weeks
Mickey Rourke does very rude things to Kim Basinger, and to the audience.
About five fortnights of wackiness ensues.
Hosts:
Sherilyn Connelly, Mikl-Em, Dan Foley, and other weeklings.
August 12, 2012
Angel Heart
This time Mickey Rourke does very rude things to Lenny Kravitz's girlfriend in New Orleans, and Bill Cosby does not approve.
Big (yet uneasy) pandemonium reigns.
Hosts:
Jim Fourniadis, Maura Sipila, Rose Lacy, and other cyphers.
August 19, 2012
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson do very rude things to the careers.
Carcinogenic wackiness ensues.
Hosts:
Sherilyn Connelly, Mikl-Em, Ziad Ezzat, and other Harleys.
August 26, 2012
Immortals
Mickey Rourke has done horrible things to his face, and no amount of CGI can hide it.
Over 9000 pixels of pandemonium reigns.
Hosts:
Jim Fourniadis, Mike Spiegelman, Jason Wiener, and other puny mortals.
Hey
People!! New designs just in time to miss the holidays!!
Visit
either our Dark Room
store or our new Maggie
store and buy our shirts and tiles. They woulda made a great
Holiday gift!!!
