Known for his role on 30 Rock and his signature satirical style Judah Friedlander brings his stand-up to Durham.
In honor of Women’s History Month, Mettlesome is running Girlhood every Friday at 7:00.
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
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
This class show is the culmination of a six-week improv comedy deep dive. Come out and support the graduates of Mettlesome Instructor Ross White’s Improv 101: Intro to Improv class!
Tickets: $7 at the door
This class show is the culmination of a six-week sketch comedy deep dive. Come hear the graduates of Tristan Yonce’s Sketch 101: Intro to Comedy Writing show off at a table read!
Tickets at the door: $7
The students of Aditya Pabba’s Advanced Study: Narrative Improv class will create two completely improvised plays opening and closing on the same day.
Tickets: $7 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
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Featuring: To be announced!
Tickets: $8 at the door
In honor of Women’s History Month, Mettlesome is running Girlhood every Friday at 7:00.
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
House Party features a cast of improvisers as they bring your suggestions to the life for a hilarious good time. (Don’t worry, we’ll never pull you on stage unless you want to be there.
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
The students of Aditya Pabba’s Advanced Study: Narrative Improv class will create two completely improvised plays opening and closing on the same day.
Tickets: $7 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
The cast of Show and Tell talented will weave true stories into comedic gold, live on stage for one night only.
Plus Candy! A a long-form set from long-time improvisers Corey Brown and Andy North! Watch this talented duo weave a complex comedy quilt.
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 spinner and get randomly assigned a team to a group. Featuring players of all experience levels.
Great for students, beginners, and veterans! Free to attend and participate.
In honor of Women’s History Month, Mettlesome is running Girlhood every Friday at 7:00.
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
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
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
This special pilot presentation is FREE!
The students of Aditya Pabba’s Advanced Study: Narrative Improv class will create two completely improvised plays opening and closing on the same day.
Tickets: $7 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
A show with high charisma
Watch a live-play Dungeons & Dragons show with dice rolling and improvised storytelling! Costumed improvisers role-play as recurring characters in a unique story prepared by the Dungeon Master. Audience participation (and a giant D20 dice) helps determine the fate of our bumbling heroes.
Tickets: $9 at the door
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Tickets: $8 at the door
Bring Your Own Sketch (BYOS) is like an open mic, but for sketch scripts!
Scripts are read in a table-read style. You can bring your own performers to read the script, or cast volunteers from the audience.
BYOS is a great opportunity to show off your scripts, get feedback, or just have fun.
Cost: Free!
In honor of Women’s History Month, Mettlesome is running Girlhood every Friday at 7:00.
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
The cast of Well Seasoned invites you to an improv comedy kickback where Black comedy takes center stage.
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
House Party features a cast of improvisers as they bring your suggestions to the life for a hilarious good time. (Don’t worry, we’ll never pull you on stage unless you want to be there.
Tickets: $9 at the door
In honor of Women’s History Month, Mettlesome is running Girlhood every Friday at 7:00.
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
The cast of Show and Tell talented will weave true stories into comedic gold, live on stage for one night only.
Plus Lakehouse! Two-time King Shit Cagematch Champions, Lakehouse performs a monoscene that is full of surprises.
Tickets: $9 at the door
Benny Feldman is a stand-up comedian known for his one-liners about butterflies, frogs, and for performing with Tourette’s syndrome.
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Featuring: Sprung: A sketch comedy show about new beginnings (and some premature endings)
Tickets: $8 at the door
Bring Your Own Sketch (BYOS) is like an open mic, but for sketch scripts!
Scripts are read in a table-read style. You can bring your own performers to read the script, or cast volunteers from the audience.
BYOS is a great opportunity to show off your scripts, get feedback, or just have fun.
Cost: Free!
ONE NIGHT ONLY! Hot off the Edinburgh Fringe festival, this is Liz's tour of the show before her Off-Broadway run at SoHo Playhouse!
This cheerful tornado includes a sermon from “Cheeky Greek Orthodox Priest,” an improvised scene starring one lucky audience member, and a video call full of fatherly wisdom from Dad.
Tickets: $20 ADV / $25 ATD
House Party features a cast of improvisers as they bring your suggestions to the life for a hilarious good time. (Don’t worry, we’ll never pull you on stage unless you want to be there.
Tickets: $9 at the door
The students of Aditya Pabba’s Advanced Study: Narrative Improv class will create two completely improvised plays opening and closing on the same day.
Tickets: $7 at the door
This class show is the culmination of a seven-week improv comedy deep dive. Come out and support the graduates of Mettlesome Instructor Brandon Holmes’ Improv 301: Improv Longform class!
Tickets: $7 at the door
We Are Pregnant is UNC's newest improv team, assembled from the ENGL 259 class that brought you Snake Chicks. If you're in need of laughs, We Are Pregnant is ready to deliver.
Admission is free!
This class show is the culmination of a seven-week improv comedy deep dive. Come out and support the graduates of Mettlesome Instructor Jack Reitz’s Improv 201: Game of the Scene class!
Tickets: $7 at the door
This class show is the culmination of a six-week improv comedy deep dive. Come out and support the graduates of Mettlesome Instructor Meredith Biechele’s Improv 101: Intro to Improv class!
Tickets: $7 at the door
The cast of Well Seasoned invites you to an improv comedy kickback where Black comedy takes center stage.
Tickets: $9 at the door
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Featuring: Tonight or Never and ImproVacation.
Tickets: $8 at the door
Everybody who attends will get a chance to perform. Put your name in the spinner and get randomly assigned a team to a group. Featuring players of all experience levels.
Great for students, beginners, and veterans! Free to attend and participate.
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 spinner and get randomly assigned a team to a group. Featuring players of all experience levels.
Great for students, beginners, and veterans! Free to attend and participate.
One suggestion leads to the creation of a whole new world of comedy.
Tickets: $8 at the door
First, the cast of Show and Tell talented will weave true stories into comedic gold, live on stage for one night only.
Followed by Golden Age, where a cast of veteran improvisers will showcase a whole world of characters all inhabiting the same location.
Tickets: $9 at the door
The students of Aditya Pabba’s Advanced Study: Narrative Improv class will create two completely improvised plays opening and closing on the same day.
Tickets: $7 at the door
This class show is the culmination of a seven-week improv comedy deep dive. Come out and support the graduates of Mettlesome Instructor Charles Givens’ Improv 201: Game of the Scene class!
Tickets: $7 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
This special pilot presentation is FREE!
This class show is the culmination of a six-week sketch comedy deep dive. Come hear the graduates of David Curtis’s Sketch 101: Intro to Comedy Writing show off at a table read!
Tickets at the door: $7
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
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
See the talented performers of Mettlesome’s Secret Society perform improv comedy.
Tickets: $7 at the door
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 Corey Brown.
Tickets: $8 at the door
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Fatherly is an improv duo who will rock your world!
The Plot Holes brings their own style of narrative improv to the show!
Tickets: $8 at the door
It’s a sweet and lovely Mettlesome comedy hour of improv and sketch comedy.
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
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!
This class show is the culmination of a six-week improv comedy deep dive. Come out and support the graduates of Mettlesome Instructor Jess Bowers’ Improv 101: Intro to Improv class!
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
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
OH LOOK! IT'S THE MILDEST MAN IMAGINABLE.
Paulette stumbles into a room full of the most strangers he's ever seen, and he doesn't know whether to panic or mingle—so he does both. Sporting a brown sweater and a hot-off-the-fist black eye, he dares to address the room armed with nothing but an arsenal of pleasantries and a monumental fear of rejection.
Hot off of sold-out shows in Edinburgh, DC, Philly, and NYC, certified clown Daniel Maseda brings well-mannered idiot Paulette to Mettlesome with this fan-favorite show that never plays out the same way twice. A good night for anyone who wants to scream at a polite person.
Love improv? Love singing? Come sing with the Broken Records musical improv team at this free musical improv jam.
