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

Tickets: $7 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

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. 

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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

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

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.

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. 

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Love improv? Love singing? Come sing with the Broken Records musical improv team at this free musical improv jam.

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.

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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

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

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!

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 a sweet and lovely Mettlesome comedy hour of improv and sketch comedy.

Tickets: $9 at the door

It’s The Racket! Make some noise for indie comedy night!

Tickets: $8 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

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

Tickets: $7 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 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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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

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