The Racket - Indie Comedy
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Tickets: $8 at the door
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Tickets: $8 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
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!
Tickets: $9 at the door
Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!
Hush Hush AND Broken Records! All in one night? Yes. Really.
Tickets: $9 at the door
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.
Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!
It’s Harold night! Come see Mettlesome Harold teams Cosmic Chaos and The Short Straw, as well as the grads of Brandon Holmes’ Improv 401 class!
Tickets: $8 at the door
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.
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. Wednesday, Dec. 10 is Pay What You Can Night!
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!
UNC's newest improv team takes the stage for an evening of fun and laughter.
Tickets at the Door: Free!
See the talented performers of Mettlesome’s Secret Society perform improv comedy.
Tickets: $7 at the door
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Tickets: $8 at the door
Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!
Hush Hush AND House Party All in one night? Yes. Really.
Tickets: $9 at the door
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.
Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!
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
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.
Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!
Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!
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
Rip the paper off 2025 with a holiday sketch comedy spectacular!
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
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!
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
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
It's MettleSketch's greatest hits! All in one show.
It's MettleSketch's greatest hits! All in one show.
It's MettleSketch's greatest hits! All in one show.
It's MettleSketch's greatest hits! All in one show.
It's MettleSketch's greatest hits! All in one show.
It's MettleSketch's greatest hits! All in one show.
When a father gets swept up in political conspiracy theories and turns to violent insurrection, his son must make an impossible choice to bring him to justice. A thrilling courtroom drama based on real-life trial transcripts.
When a father gets swept up in political conspiracy theories and turns to violent insurrection, his son must make an impossible choice to bring him to justice. A thrilling courtroom drama based on real-life trial transcripts.
When a father gets swept up in political conspiracy theories and turns to violent insurrection, his son must make an impossible choice to bring him to justice. A thrilling courtroom drama based on real-life trial transcripts.
When a father gets swept up in political conspiracy theories and turns to violent insurrection, his son must make an impossible choice to bring him to justice. A thrilling courtroom drama based on real-life trial transcripts.
When a father gets swept up in political conspiracy theories and turns to violent insurrection, his son must make an impossible choice to bring him to justice. A thrilling courtroom drama based on real-life trial transcripts.
When a father gets swept up in political conspiracy theories and turns to violent insurrection, his son must make an impossible choice to bring him to justice. A thrilling courtroom drama based on real-life trial transcripts.
When a father gets swept up in political conspiracy theories and turns to violent insurrection, his son must make an impossible choice to bring him to justice. A thrilling courtroom drama based on real-life trial transcripts.
When a father gets swept up in political conspiracy theories and turns to violent insurrection, his son must make an impossible choice to bring him to justice. A thrilling courtroom drama based on real-life trial transcripts.
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Tickets: $8 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 showcases a whole world of characters all based on your suggestions. It’s like Hallmark movie written by a guy who starts talking to you unprompted on public transit.
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
Led by Mettlesome Instructor and Formally Trained Clown Katie Rebich, Clown Jam is for the newly curious and well-seasoned clown. It's a community collaboration for 1.5 hours to play and explore clown. It is not a workshop, and there is little instruction. This is a time to experiment with games, exercises, pieces you want feedback on.
Cost: Free
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!
It’s Harold night! 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
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!
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
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Tickets: $8 at the door
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Tickets: $8 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!
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
Update: Sadly, this November’s show at Center Theater is cancelled.
This show is appropriate for the whole family! See a rotating cast of the best Mettlesome has to offer at Center Theater in Carrboro, NC. Straight out of Durham, this award winning comedy theater brings their quick wit and boundless creativity to create an interactive show that everyone in your family will enjoy. All based on YOUR suggestions!
It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!
Tickets: $8 at the door
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
Sketches and bits from the team behind MettleSketch. It’s a spooky, kooky, Mettlesome comedy hour.
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.
$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 a spooky, kooky, Mettlesome comedy hour.
Tickets: $9 at the door
Make some noise for indie comedy night! Tonight: an improvised inquisition. Directed by Asher DeMadet.
Tickets: $8 at the door
For the Improv Jam, everybody who attends will get a chance to perform. Great for students, beginners, and veterans - No experience necessary.
Cost: Free!
Make some noise for indie comedy night! Tonight: an improvised inquisition. Directed by Asher DeMadet.
Tickets: $8 at the door