St Patrick's Day with Nathan Dennen, The Welcome

Matt, Dgiin

Monday, March 29 at 8PM $5

Crisis Hopkins Improv Soapbox

An open stage for actors, improvisers, and players. Games and longform in an improv jam setting. Designed for maximum play, for all skill levels, and hosted by Crisis Hopkins.  Held monthly on the last Monday of each month.

Modal Combat

Tuesday, March 30 at 8PM $10

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/103896

Guitar Hero Is Dead: Guitarists Use Real Guitars to Control Video Games in a hybrid concert / public video game battle

Forget about using a plastic guitar to mimic your favorite band. What if you could use a real guitar just like any other video game joystick -- and thrash your opponent while you create original music?

Two classically-trained New York City guitarists calling themselves "Modal Kombat" have hacked into classic video games Pong, Tetris, Mortal Kombat and Mario Kart. On March 30 at The Climate Theater in San Francisco, they'll make their characters move -- and battle against each other -- with a flurry of guitar-plucking.

The event, part of Modal Kombat's "Guitar Hero is Dead" Tour, is a video-game battle/performance-art hybrid that's open to the public. The goal is to demonstrate that real guitars -- or other musical instruments -- can be viable video game controllers.

FIRESIDE STORIES

Wednesday, March 31 at 8PM  $5

theme: I faked it

Fireside is a monthly storytelling series, taking place the last Wednesday of every month.  Come watch six storytellers tell 10-minute true stories on a particular theme, without the aid of notes or a script, keeping the fine art of storytelling alive.

http://www.firesidestorytelling.com/

LEGS AND ALL with Summer Shapiro & Peter Musante

April 1 - April 11

Thursday- Saturday at 8PM; Sunday at 3PM

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102901

Legs and All conceived by Summer Shapiro, created and performed with Peter Musante, returns to Climate after a sellout run in the SF Fringe Festival in September, and most recently from a sellout run in NYC (Frigid Festival)!

San Francisco's beloved physical comedienne Summer Shapiro, teams up with equally talented clown Peter Musante (Blue Man Group - NY), for 50 minutes of kinetic comedy and subtle pathos, all supported by a tango-meets-bluegrass score.

"an inspired bit of performance art created and executed splendidly by two world-class physical comedians" -LA Entertainment Today

*Best of The Best in 2009 Bay Area Theatre - SF Bay Times

*2009 Ticketholder Award for Best Special Event/Performance

*Top 5 Best Original Works of 2009 -Chloe Veltman, lies like truth ArtsJournal

All Star Clown Cabaret

Monday, April 5 at 7PM & 9PM

  One of the only, if not THE only place to see new clowning on a regular basis. 

JAWVOX with Joshua Walters in collaboration with The Hub/ SFJCC

Tuesday, April 13 at 8PM $5

Joshua Walters brings his special blend of beatboxing, spoken word, and stand up comedy to the stage as he develops this new piece.  The first Tuesday of each month he'll be presenting new work, and mixing it up with Special Guests.

Joshua is currently a Resident Artist at Climate and at the Hub SFJCC and I'm thrilled to be co-presenting this series of shows with them.

Shadow Circus Vaudeville Theatre

Friday, April 17 & Saturday, April 18 at 8PM $15

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102897

Shadow Circus Creature Theater is back with special guests Zoe Boekbinder (Vermillion Lies), contortionist Avi Khalsa, and Bellydancer Jill Parker.

Combining folklore, mythology, Lovecraftian monsters and pop-culture parody, Shadow Circus Creature Theatre has been one of San Francisco's most popular and outrageous puppetry troupes since it's formation in 2000. Using life-sized latex and foam creatures Shadow Circus creates a world that is utterly fantastic, and yet hilariously similar to our own.