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 talented cast of Show and Tell will weave true stories into comedic gold.

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

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

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

Special Limited Run Show!

The cast of Golden Age has the holiday spirit. Throughout November and December, Golden Age will create improvised Holiday show that weave together holiday tropes and comedy hijinks. Inspired by your suggestions (and a fair dose of Hallmark movie melodrama), this show will have you ready to raise your glass and toast the season with a deep laugh and a full heart. You won’t have to be a big city business woman stuck her small-town for the holidays to fall in love with this show!

Followed by SHOW AND TELL!

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

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!

Experience a live, festive reading of Charles Dickens's holiday classic A Christmas Carol. Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina.

Three sets! One night!

The cast of Show and Tell talented will weave true stories into comedic gold, live on stage for one night only.

Plus, Cosmic Chaos and The Short Straw from Harold Night will weave a twisted web intertwining worlds.

Tickets: $9 at the door

Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!

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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

See the talented performers of Mettlesome’s Secret Society perform improv comedy.

Tickets: $7 at the door

This class show is the culmination of a six-week improv and acting deep dive. Come out and support the graduates of Allen Tedder’s Acting for Improvisers classes!

Tickets: $7 at the door

Hush Hush AND Broken Records! All in one night? Yes. Really.

Tickets: $9 at the door

Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!

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Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!

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Presented by Stone Soup Theatre Co., a nonprofit theatre company in Durham and Chapel Hill: In a time when the world feels increasingly heavy—with headlines full of conflict, division, and uncertainty—Every Brilliant Thing offers a luminous reminder of hope. This deeply human, interactive play celebrates the beauty of everyday joys—the smell of coffee, the sound of laughter, the comfort of connection.

Purchase your tickets here.

Special Limited Run Show!

The cast of Golden Age has the holiday spirit. Throughout November and December, Golden Age will create improvised Holiday show that weave together holiday tropes and comedy hijinks. Inspired by your suggestions (and a fair dose of Hallmark movie melodrama), this show will have you ready to raise your glass and toast the season with a deep laugh and a full heart. You won’t have to be a big city business woman stuck her small-town for the holidays to fall in love with this show!

Followed by SHOW AND TELL!

Tickets: $9 at the door

Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!

BUY TICKETS

Presented by Stone Soup Theatre Co., a nonprofit theatre company in Durham and Chapel Hill: In a time when the world feels increasingly heavy—with headlines full of conflict, division, and uncertainty—Every Brilliant Thing offers a luminous reminder of hope. This deeply human, interactive play celebrates the beauty of everyday joys—the smell of coffee, the sound of laughter, the comfort of connection.

Purchase your tickets here.

This class show is the culmination of a seven-week sketch comedy deep dive. Come hear the graduates of Kara Phelps’ Sketch 201: The Writers’ Room show off at a table read!

Tickets at the door: $7

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 Thursday class!

Tickets: $7 at the door

Hush Hush AND House Party All in one night? Yes. Really.

Tickets: $9 at the door

Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!

BUY TICKETS

See the talented performers of Mettlesome’s Secret Society perform improv comedy.

Tickets: $7 at the door

UNC's newest improv team takes the stage for an evening of fun and laughter.

Tickets at the Door: Free!

Gram-O-Rama has been a UNC tradition for over 40 years now. Students from ENGL 308 use wordplay, word power, linguistic acrobatics, the elasticity of syntax, and the profundity of the absurd and incongruous to write and perform pieces that explore the music of language and the collusion of sense and nonsense.

Tickets at the Door: Free!