by dorian lenz | Jul 15, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
Things to Do in Downtown Mesa:Comedy This Friday Night The storyteller finishes. It’s a real story — theirs, told straight, with no punchline engineered into it. The room is still sitting with the last line when the lights shift and the improvisers walk out. They...
by dorian lenz | Jul 9, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
From Level One to the Harold in Under a Year “The Waffle House is our only refuge in a hurricane!” That line came out of a student named Dana in the middle of a Harold workshop on our stage in downtown Mesa — delivered with total conviction, in a scene she was...
by dorian lenz | Jul 7, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
Inside the Competitive Comedy Show Somebody in the third-row yells “laundromat!” before the lights have even settled. Shorty after that the of improvisers are building a improvised scene out of that one word — Another suggestion, and another improvised scene, and the...
by dorian lenz | Jul 1, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
see a show take a class Improv Classes in Phoenix: A Field Guide to NCT’s 5 Levels Walk into NCT during an improv class and you’ll hear all sorts of different conversations going on. In one class, a total beginner is learning to fall into a scene...
by dorian lenz | Jun 12, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
The Decon The ladder The Movie Three Forms, Three Nights: NCT Brings Del Close’s Long-Form Lineage to Mesa The three workshops NCT is running back-to-back next week – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – all trace to the same room: The Family, the...
