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

A one-hour comedy extravaganza celebrating the pets who rule our lives. This show is a fundraiser for the Urban Tails Compassion Fund.

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A one-hour comedy extravaganza celebrating the pets who rule our lives. This show is a fundraiser for the Urban Tails Compassion Fund.

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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

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

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

Five comedian friends challenge each other to perform improvised scenes, each with an unexpected twist that may or may not involve music, acting, props, competition, and YOU, the audience. Adding you to the group chat now…

P.S. Don’t worry, we’ll never pull you on stage unless you want to be there.

Tickets: $8 at the door

Talented improv team Show and Tell will weave true stories into comedic gold, live on stage for one night only.

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 high-energy showcase features students from Mettlesome Instructor Matthew Schmitz’s Advanced Study Musical Improv class! They’ll perform a fully improvised musical comedy, making up scenes and songs on the spot with live accompaniment.

Tickets at the door: $7

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

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

Michael Bloemeke is an award-winning magician based in the Triangle. His show is a mix of magic, mentalism, and comedy. Over the course of an hour, he will do everything from read your mind to produce drinks out of thin air to teleport a card across the room, with comedy running throughout.

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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

One suggestion leads to the creation of a whole new world of comedy.

Tickets: $8 at the door

A cast of improvisers will bring your suggestions to life for a hilariously good time. (Don’t worry, we’ll never pull you on stage unless you want to be there.)

Tickets: $8 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

One suggestion leads to the creation of a whole new world of comedy.

Tickets: $8 at the door

Durham favorite GIANT ROBOT FIGHT CLUB brings their epic battles to the Mettlesome stage.

Tickets available via Eventbrite and at the door: $15 regular seating / $30 ringside seating

This show is the culmination of a seven-week sketch comedy deep dive from Mettlesome Instructors Megan Myers’ and Tristan Yonce’s Sketch 201: The Writers’ Room class. Come see the graduates show off their comedic sketches!

Tickets at the door: $7

A show with high charisma at the Durham County Main Library.

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.

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Durham favorite GIANT ROBOT FIGHT CLUB brings their epic battles to the Mettlesome stage.

Tickets available via Eventbrite and at the door: $15 regular seating / $30 ringside seating

This class show is the culmination of a seven-week improv comedy deep dive. Come out and support the graduates of Mettlesome Instructor Craig Carter’s Improv 401: The Harold class!

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 Instructors Charles Givens’ and Ross White’s Improv 301: Improv Longform class!

Tickets: $7 at the door