{"id":431544,"date":"2026-08-13T07:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431544\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:28:13","slug":"san-francisco-improv-festival-returns-for-first-time-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431544\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Improv Festival returns for first time since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">The San Francisco Improv Festival is making its return after a six-year hiatus, bringing live comedy back to the city across a five-day event.\u00a0The once-annual festival was sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, and its former host venue, PianoFight, permanently closed its doors. Organizers worked to bootstrap funding for this year&#8217;s festival and secured a new home at Silk Road, a bar located near Union Square.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0August 12, 2026 11:25pm PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco Improv Festival is making its return after a six-year hiatus, bringing live comedy back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-431544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}