SF Venues

Amnesia

Amnesia in the Mission is a bar that treats its stage like an actual venue, with touring acts,...

Bimbo's 365 Club

Bimbo’s 365 Club is a North Beach institution where you walk down a narrow staircase into a room...

Bird & Beckett Books

Bird & Beckett Books in Noe Valley hosts live music in a bookstore that smells like paper and...

Biscuits & Blues

Biscuits & Blues is a basement room in Union Square that trades bright lights for vintage chandeliers and...

Black Cat

Black Cat sits on the edge of the Tenderloin and draws a real mix of people: drag performers,...

Boom Boom Room

Boom Boom Room is a Western Addition spot with soul and funk DNA running through it. The room...

Bottom of the Hill

Bottom of the Hill in Potrero Hill has hosted everyone from The Strokes to local indie bands on...

Cafe Du Nord

Cafe Du Nord is a Market Street institution in a below street level space with mirrors and chandeliers...

DNA Lounge

DNA Lounge is the South of Market space that feels like a warehouse from the 1990s and still...

Elbo Room Jack London

Elbo Room in Oakland’s Jack London Square sits above a Mexican restaurant, and the smell of carne asada...

Great American Music Hall

Great American Music Hall on O’Farrell Street has ornate brass railings, a high ceiling with crystal chandeliers, and...

Ireland's 32

Ireland’s 32 on Geary Boulevard is a neighborhood Irish pub where live music happens naturally, with fiddles and...

Keys Jazz Bistro

Keys Jazz Bistro on Broadway is a small jazz club where the focus is entirely on the music...

Kilowatt Bar

Kilowatt Bar in the Mission is a neighborhood spot with a dance floor and a focus on electronic...

Madrone Art Bar

Madrone Art Bar on Divisadero brings together visual art and live performance in a space that never feels...

Make-Out Room

Make-Out Room in the Mission is a small bar where the stage sits literally in the middle of...

Mr. Tipple's Jazz Club

Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club near Civic Center is an old school jazz joint with dark wood, low lighting,...

Neck of the Woods

Neck of the Woods in the Outer Richmond is a neighborhood bar with live music that draws locals...

O'Reilly's Pub

O’Reilly’s Pub on Haight Street is a neighborhood bar where live music is secondary to the bar experience...

Old Skool Cafe

Old Skool Cafe on Mendell Street in Bayview is a neighborhood spot where live music happens organically and...

Rickshaw Stop

Rickshaw Stop near the Panhandle is a concert venue where you can actually see and hear the performer...

Sheba Piano Lounge

Sheba Piano Lounge on Fillmore Street is a vintage space where the piano anchors the room and the...

The Hotel Utah Saloon

Hotel Utah Saloon occupies a historic building on 4th Street with wood beams and windows looking out onto...

The Independent

The Independent on Divisadero is a mid-sized venue with high ceilings and exposed brick that feels like a...

The Lucky Horseshoe

The Lucky Horseshoe on Cortland Avenue is a dive bar where the jukebox actually gets played and live...

Theater

22 spots

A.C.T.'s Strand Theater

Step into the Strand and you’re walking through a century of San Francisco theater history. The ornate plasterwork...

A.C.T.'s Toni Rembe Theater

The Toni Rembe Theater is where ACT experiments and takes risks. You’ll notice the flexible staging setup immediately,...

American Conservatory Theater (ACT)

ACT’s main stage on Geary Street is a temple of theater where serious actors do serious work. The...

Bayfront Theatre

Perched right on the bay at Fort Mason, the Bayfront Theatre gives you that rare San Francisco moment...

Bayview Opera House

Deep in Bayview, the Opera House stands as a gleaming reminder that this neighborhood has always had culture...

Club Fugazi

Club Fugazi is where the walls practically vibrate with the energy of small-scale live performance. Squeeze into this...

Cowell Theater

Cowell Theater at Fort Mason offers a 450-seat space with a singular advantage: the bay is literally outside...

Curran Theatre

The Curran is that rare theater with real architectural bones and a 1922 glamour that hasn’t been scrubbed...

Custom Made Theatre Co.

Tucked upstairs on Sutter Street, Custom Made Theatre Company feels like you found a secret. The intimate 100-seat...

Exit Theatre

The Exit Theatre in the Tenderloin is raw and unpolished by design. Exposed pipes, mismatched chairs, and the...

Golden Gate Theatre

The Golden Gate Theatre on Taylor Street is where touring Broadway productions land in San Francisco. The 1,010-seat...

Magic Theatre

Magic Theatre sits in Fort Mason with bay views and artistic ambition in equal measure. The 250-seat space...

Marine's Memorial Theater

The Marines Memorial Theater is a 1926 jewel tucked into the Sutter Street theater corridor. Veterans built this...

New Conservatory Theatre Center

New Conservatory Theatre Center on Van Ness brings LGBTQ-centered stories to a 200-seat stage. The space pulses with...

Orpheum Theatre

The Orpheum on Market Street is a 1926 palace that makes every show feel like an event. Crystal...

Phoenix Theater

The Phoenix Theater on Mason Street is a mid-sized 600-seat house that programs contemporary work with a local...

Potrero Stage

Potrero Stage in the industrial waterfront district feels like a working artist’s space. The converted warehouse aesthetic with...

San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera’s Van Ness Avenue building is a temple of serious music production. The 3,172-seat War Memorial...

San Francisco Playhouse

San Francisco Playhouse occupies the second floor of a Union Square building, offering 150 seats of intimate, professionally-produced...

Shelton Theater

The Shelton Theater shares a Sutter Street building with Custom Made, offering another intimate 100-seat space for local...

SHN

Shockingly Human (SHN) theaters on Market Street bring major touring productions to San Francisco with production values that...

The Marsh

The Marsh in Valencia is where solo performers and spoken word artists come to develop and present work....

Dance Venue

17 spots

1015 Folsom

A converted industrial space on Folsom that pulses with electronic music and dancing bodies until sunrise. The DJ...

Alonzo King LINES Ballet

Alonzo King LINES Ballet performs on 7th Street with a distinct contemporary style that blends classical technique with...

Audio SF

Tucked on 11th Street in SOMA, this club focuses on quality sound and a real respect for electronic...

Beaux

Located in the heart of the Castro on Market Street, this venue brings upbeat energy and a welcoming...

CounterPulse

CounterPulse on Turk Street programs performance and dance that centers marginalized voices and takes risks with form and...

El Rio

This open air Mission patio venue lets you dance under the stars with the city around you, and...

Located on Folsom in SOMA, F8 brings warehouse energy to a space filled with dancers who take their...

Halcyon SF

Halcyon sits on 11th Street in SOMA as a venue that balances sleek design with genuine respect for...

Joe Goode Annex

Joe Goode Annex on Alabama Street provides space for experimental movement and performance that pushes what dance can...

Monarch

This SOMA venue commands attention from the street and delivers inside with a serious sound system and high...

OASIS

OASIS sits on 11th Street as a reliable SOMA destination where the focus stays on solid DJing and...

ODC Theater

ODC Theater on 17th Street in the Mission hosts a resident company known for inventive choreography and generous...

Phonobar

Phonobar sits quietly on Grove Street but once you’re inside, the sound wraps around you in the best...

Public Works

Public Works sprawls across a massive warehouse on Erie Street with multiple rooms and outdoor space, letting different...

Roccapulco

This Mission District institution opens up with a bar front and dance floor that gets packed on weekends...

San Francisco Ballet

San Francisco Ballet occupies a stunning building on Franklin Street and produces world class contemporary and classical work...

Temple Nightclub

Temple commands presence in South of Market with a long bar, multiple dance floors, and a sound system...

Concert Hall

16 spots

August Hall

August Hall underneath the Palace Hotel downtown has that underground energy where artists come to try things and...

Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Bill Graham sits in Civic Center like a grand temple to live music, and walking through those doors...

Chase Center

Chase Center pulses with energy on the waterfront, all sleek glass and sight lines that actually let you...

Davies Symphony Hall

Davies Symphony Hall is all golden wood and perfect curves, designed so every seat feels close to the...

Herbst Theatre

Herbst Theatre tucked into the Civic Center complex is where intimate performances land when they want the detail...

Nourse Theater

Nourse Theater in Hayes Valley has this intimate grandeur that works for everything from jazz to orchestral works,...

Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

Palace of Fine Arts Theater sits inside that white dome like some secret San Francisco gift, with the...

Regency Ballroom

Regency Ballroom brings back a dance hall feeling that makes concerts feel like social events, with the ornate...

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Van Ness is where serious classical work happens in a room built...

San Francisco Symphony

San Francisco Symphony’s home is Davies, but their name carries the weight of excellence that echoes through Van...

Swedish American Hall

Swedish American Hall in the Castro carries decades of community events in its walls, with a ballroom floor...

The Fillmore

The Fillmore on Geary carries the weight of San Francisco’s live music legacy in every corner, where artists...

The Foundry SF

The Foundry SF in the Mission brings industrial rawness to live music, with the concrete and steel absorbing...

The Masonic

The Masonic perched on California Street brings a gentlemen’s club vibe that somehow makes you feel welcomed, with...

The Warfield

The Warfield on Market Street is that old San Francisco theater where the gilt and balconies remind you...

War Memorial Opera House

War Memorial Opera House stands as San Francisco’s grandest stage, where the red velvet and soaring architecture tell...

Comedy Club

5 spots

Cheaper Than Therapy Comedy

This spot on Sutter Street delivers exactly what the name promises: comedy that cuts through pretense and leaves...

Cobb's Comedy Club

Cobb’s has been the home of San Francisco comedy since 1982, and walking in you still feel the...

Doc's Lab

Doc’s Lab is tucked into North Beach with low ceilings and the kind of intimate setup where you’re...

Marrakech Magic Theater

Marrakech Magic Theater brings a theatrical energy to the Tenderloin with a room that feels like stepping into...

Punch Line Comedy Club

The Punch Line sits on the edge of the Financial District where Battery Street gets a little looser,...

Community Space

5 spots

Bindlestiff Studio

Bindlestiff Studio sits on 6th Street in SOMA as a small but fierce community space where artists make...

Community Music Center

The Community Music Center sits on Capp Street in the Mission as a working music school where you...

KQED HQ

KQED HQ on Mariposa Street in the Mission is a public media center with studios, screening rooms, and...

Noe Valley Ministry

Noe Valley Ministry occupies a converted church on Sanchez Street with soaring ceilings and natural acoustics that make...