One location. A world of comedy.
The cast of Golden Age will showcase a whole world of characters all based on your suggestions.
Tickets: $9 at the door
Head to Harold Night in Halloween costumes! One suggestion leads to the creation of a whole new world of spooky comedy.
Tickets: $8 at the door
Jam in Halloween costumes! Everybody who attends will get a chance to perform. Put your name in the bucket and get randomly assigned to a group. Featuring players of all experience levels.
Great for students, beginners, and veterans. Free to attend and participate.
Just in time for Halloween, recent The Bat Workshop participants will perform a half-hour improv show in the dark.
Free Admission!
Durham FRINGE brings more than 50 Durham-based artists to more than 20 downtown venues over 10 days.
Durham FRINGE brings more than 50 Durham-based artists to more than 20 downtown venues over 10 days.
It’s a spooky, kooky Mettlesome comedy hour! A different show in hell each night!
Tickets available via Eventbrite and at the door: $9
MettleSketch team Off Menu presents their October show of original comedic sketches.
Also featuring Mettlesome team Hush Hush, which will perform improv scenes based on audience members’ real secrets.
$9 at the door
This performance may be haunted. Come see members of the Mettlesome Faculty perform Halloween-inspired longform improv.
Tickets: $9 at the door
It’s a spooky, kooky Mettlesome comedy hour! A different show in hell each night!
Tickets available via Eventbrite and at the door: $9
MettleSketch team Off Menu presents their October show of original comedic sketches.
$9 at the door
One suggestion leads to the creation of a whole new world of comedy.
Tickets: $8 at the door
Everybody who attends will get a chance to perform. Put your name in the bucket and get randomly assigned to a group. Featuring players of all experience levels.
Great for students, beginners, and veterans! Free to attend and participate.
Experience a completely improvised musical comedy show. Watch and listen as the cast of Broken Records makes up songs on the spot with live accompaniment, based on suggestions from you, the audience.
Tickets: $9 at the door
Join Hush Hush for a special comedy show full of deep laughs and true revelations. Each show, audience members add their anonymous confessions into our bucket of truth. Our cast of improv all-stars read those aloud and turn one person's wild shame into everyone's party.
Tickets: $9 at the door
An all-woman cast digs out the photos from their past that didn’t *quite* make it into the scrapbook for an improvised show about the sweet, the sour, and the seriously funny parts of womanhood.
Tickets: $9 at the door
One location. A world of comedy.
The cast of Golden Age will showcase a whole world of characters all based on your suggestions.
Tickets: $9 at the door
One suggestion leads to the creation of a whole new world of comedy.
Tickets: $8 at the door
Everybody who attends will get a chance to perform. Put your name in the bucket and get randomly assigned to a group. Featuring players of all experience levels.
Great for students, beginners, and veterans! Free to attend and participate.
See the talented performers of Mettlesome’s Secret Society perform improv comedy.
Tickets: $7 at the door
Join Hush Hush for a special comedy show full of deep laughs and true revelations. Each show, audience members add their anonymous confessions into our bucket of truth. Our cast of improv all-stars read those aloud and turn one person's wild shame into everyone's party.
Tickets: $9 at the door
It’s an improvised musical for kids!
A made-up story with songs, all inspired by your suggestions.
Fun for ALL ages - no, seriously.
Help us create the world with your drawings and suggestions.
Tickets at the door: $8 per audience member age 15 and under; $5 per adult
A cast of current Mettlesome students and House Team members are chosen at random to perform a night of improv comedy. Hosted by Lotto Master Charles Givens.
Tickets: $8 at the door
Come ready to this reading series from Durham’s own Bull City Press for engaging poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers.
Admission: Free!
The talented cast of Show and Tell will weave true stories into comedic gold, live on stage for one night only.
Plus the improv powerhouse trio Pivot Point, this summer’s King Shit Cagematch Champion!
Tickets: $9 at the door
An all-woman cast digs out the photos from their past that didn’t *quite* make it into the scrapbook for an improvised show about the sweet, the sour, and the seriously funny parts of womanhood.
Tickets: $9 at the door
One suggestion leads to the creation of a whole new world of comedy.
Tickets: $8 at the door
Everybody who attends will get a chance to perform. Put your name in the bucket and get randomly assigned to a group. Featuring players of all experience levels.
Great for students, beginners, and veterans! Free to attend and participate.
Set the plates and set the knives, because Newt Work is bringing you a Thanksgiving experience unlike any other!
Presenting: Gobble Mia!
The world’s only unauthorized Mamma Mia/Thanksgiving parody musical.
Tickets: $8 at the door
Experience a completely improvised musical comedy show. Watch and listen as the cast of Broken Records makes up songs on the spot with live accompaniment, based on suggestions from you, the audience.
Tickets: $9 at the door
Join Hush Hush for a special comedy show full of deep laughs and true revelations. Each show, audience members add their anonymous confessions into our bucket of truth. Our cast of improv all-stars read those aloud and turn one person's wild shame into everyone's party.
Tickets: $9 at the door
Come out and support the students in Mettlesome Instructor Jack Reitz’s Advanced Study: JTS Brown class! The JTS Brown improv form emphasizes physical transformation, dream logic and unconditional team support. It's a weird one!
Tickets: $7 at the door
See the talented performers of Mettlesome’s Secret Society perform improv comedy.
Tickets: $7 at the door
UPCOMING SHOWS:
![Improv 201: Game of the Scene [MONDAYS]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d8f6b522482ef0c3d8c948/1789680741678-AJ3FS5UVL6YXWXOGX07S/Jess+201.png)
MONDAYS
Learn the core concepts of longform comedic improv. Students will cover scene-work mechanics and heightening the game of the scene.
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![[SOLD OUT] Sketch 101: Intro to Comedy Writing](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d8f6b522482ef0c3d8c948/1789682168035-XEVQ0SV0VHLFV1CW2Z8W/Dave+101.png)
![Improv 101: Intro to Improv [TUESDAYS]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d8f6b522482ef0c3d8c948/1790637068161-1PC9NF8BDA5Q6K2ENUE4/Website+Images+-+Classes+and+Workshops-24-Jess+-+Improv+101.png)
![[1 SPOT LEFT!] Improv 301: Improv Longform](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d8f6b522482ef0c3d8c948/1785248661838-JZBK340YHRN71RYIGBAZ/Website+Images+-+Classes+and+Workshops-24-Corey+-+Improv+301.png)
TUESDAYS
Create characters and worlds that combine to form a unified 25-minute longform improv piece.
![[SOLD OUT] Clowning: Play, Presence, and the Poetry of the Ridiculous](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d8f6b522482ef0c3d8c948/1789682507317-V5TWNLHPLELY9RS4CQ9I/clowning+-+updated.png)
WEDNESDAYS
Step into the world of clown through the lens of physical theatre. Wednesdays.
![[SOLD OUT] Advanced Study: JTS Brown](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d8f6b522482ef0c3d8c948/1790187635915-EA70MMWMB0JQVYVXDDLD/Jack+Adv+Study.png)
THURSDAYS
Building on the skills of 301’s game-driven longform, this class introduces students to openings and group games as key components of the Harold structure, a cornerstone improv form.
![[SOLD OUT] Improv 201: Game of the Scene [SATURDAYS]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d8f6b522482ef0c3d8c948/1770218873125-M92L55MY242M9ZQABVYW/Improv+201+-+Charles.png)
SATURDAYS
Learn the core concepts of longform comedic improv. Students will cover scene-work mechanics and heightening the game of the scene.
TUESDAYS
Continued exploration of writing sketch comedy. Learn additional common sketch structures, and workshop sketches weekly.
New classes for Improv and Sketch Comedy will start in early January 2027.
Class registration will open by early December 2026!
Stay posted.
UPCOMING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS:
Mettlesome strives to make our performances, classes, facilities, and website accessible to all people. If you have questions, need assistance, or require any accommodations, please email us at ops@thisismettlesome.com. In addition, please feel free to approach any staff member during your visit for support. We are here to help.