Playpen advances

Sam will perform with Playpen (Galloway Allbright, Chris Gallegos, Yvette Rebik, Rick Rothenberg, Meredith Winfield; Shannon Wood) in the "Battle Royale" at the Bovine Metropolis every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. ($5) unless defeated in this weekly donnybrook of local long-form improvisation troupes (they won tonight, by the way).