by dorian lenz | Aug 11, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
Comedy Shows in Mesa, AZ: D&D Comedy and a Triple-Header A comedian walks to the mic, and before she says a word she rolls a twenty-sided die in front of the room. It comes up a four. The Dungeon Master leans into his microphone and informs her that for the next...
by dorian lenz | Aug 4, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
Things to Do in Downtown Mesa: A Made-Up Musical The suggestion was “dental hygienist.” Ninety seconds later a performer was center stage in downtown Mesa, singing a power ballad to a molar she could not save, and the piano under her had found the key...
by dorian lenz | Jul 28, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
Comedy Shows in Mesa, AZ: The Bucket of Doom Picture a performer center stage in downtown Mesa, staring at a jenga tile (yeah, you heard me right) with the name of a game he may or may not know how to play. An audience member pulled it out of a metal bucket. The...
by dorian lenz | Jul 21, 2026 | Classes & Workshops, Improv Talk, News & Events
Comedy Shows in Mesa, AZ: See One Saturday, Try One Class The suggestion comes from somewhere in the back row, and it is not a word you’d shout at a regular saturday night show. Two improvisers take it anyway. They look at each other for half a second —...
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...
