Petra's Bar

TutuTonight: Late Night Show!!
2024-08-27 19:00, 2024-09-24 19:00, 2025-02-25 19:00, 2025-03-25 19:00, 2025-05-20 19:00, 2025-10-28 20:00, 2026-02-12 20:00, 2026-05-07 20:00 (America/New_York) | Petra’s, 1919 Commonwealth Avenue, Charlotte, NC, 28205, United States
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $8 Advance | $10 Day Of
• 21+
Join us for this one of a kind LIVE variety show, featuring live music, comedy, local celebrity interviews, burlesque, drag performances, and MORE—at Petra’s!
Brought to you by TuTu Tuesday and Makeshift Shows, this is TuTu TONIGHT!

Crescendo Musical Comedy Improv Presents: Laugh Until It Hurts
2024-09-26 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $7 Advance | $10 Day Of
• 21+

Crescendo is the Carolinas only working 100% Musical Improv Troupe!
Based on ideas from the audience, this brilliant team finds all the laughs and hits all the high notes. You’ll be astounded as they turn scenes and suggestions into songs, the mundane into memorable melodies, and the trivial into toe-tapping tunes. Join us for a laugh-filled evening of music that is literally created in the moment it is performed on stage. You’re gonna love it!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553610641182
Instagram: @crescendomusicimprov
YouTube Learn Stripping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_uPGO2C3is

HoliDaze Comedy Showcase
2024-12-05 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $8 Advance | $12 Day Of
• 21+
HoliDaze comedy showcase featuring Bryan Bertrand, Kaleigh Cutright, and Jordan Ballard.

Queerly: A Variety Show
2025-01-16 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $7 Adv | $10 Day Of
• 21+
Queerly is a variety show highlighting local queer comedy, drag, and live music. Featuring performances by M143, Carolina Down Boys, Adrian Parrish, Karen Affection and others.

Hosted by Adrian Parrish

Welcome To My Trailer: Stories From a Trailer Park
2025-02-27 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $10 At The Door
• 21+
Take a journey with Ilean. A little bit of livin, a little bit of learnin and a lot of laughter.

Round Of A Paws
2025-03-27 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $15 at the door
• 21+
Looking for a fun night out after you’ve been working like a dog all day? Looking to sit back, relax, and take a load off with some live entertainment that’s otter this world? Looking to find a koala-ty event that you can brag about to all of your friends who missed it? Looking for the purr-fect event to bring a date to? Owl by yourself, and looking for a good event to meet like-minded people at? Looking to have an un-fur-gettable experience, and contribute to a great cause?
Whale for Fox sake, look no further – Round of a Paws has you covered!
Round of a Paws is a standup comedy experience showcasing the best local comedians right here in charlotte! But that’s not all! – 25% of all ticket sales from Round of Paws are donated to the Humane Society of Charlotte! At Round of a Paws, you have the op-purr-tunity to enjoy a meowtain of laughter while donating to an ape-solutely fabulous organization for a great cause!
Bring a date, bring a deer friend, bring anyone with purr-sonality and relax at a hiss-terical show knowing that you’re contributing to a great cause! Grab a drink at the bar, and guffaw at the comedians while they are kitten around! Come out to Round of a Paws to enjoy a night with people who share a love for comedy and animals, and you’ll leave happy as a clam!

Queerly: A Variety Show
2025-04-04 19:00, 2025-06-06 19:00, 2025-10-16 20:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $7 Adv (with fees) | $10 Day Of
• 21+
Queerly is a variety show highlighting local queer comedy, drag, and live music.
Hosted by Adrian Parrish.

It's A Spring Thing Variety Show
2025-04-24 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $9 Adv (plus fee) | $12 at the door
• 21+
It’s A Spring Thing is a variety show featuring comedy music and more. Hosted by Kaya Allyn.

Night Class: Unserious Power Point
2025-05-08 19:00, 2025-08-26 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
$10 At the door
• 21+

We’re turning Petra’s into a schoolhouse (but make it sultry) and this isn’t your grandpa’s math lesson. You have five minutes to teach the audience about a topic of your choice, and we are looking to be humored, enlightened….even stirred, if you will.

Hosted by professors Miss Frizzle and Bill Nye (but sluttier)
Attendance taken by Burlesque Headmistress

Submission link: https://forms.gle/PuRMBRq1jGAUeY1w6

$25 cash prize each for winners in three categories, determined by audience vote:

Funniest presentation
Most insightful presentation
Hottest presentation

Timeline

Syllabus due: August 10 at 11:59 pm EST
Selection notifications: August 13
Slides due: August 24 at 11:59 pm EST

Guidelines:

Presentations cannot be longer than 5 minutes.
No more than three presenters per presentation. The names of all presenters must be submitted with this form – you may not add presenters after being selected.
Presentations communicating themes based in racism, homophobia, transphobia, gender discrimination, fatphobia, ableism, and other forms of bigotry are not welcome. The event organizers reserve the right to cut the mic for any presentations communicating discriminatory themes.

Please reach out to the event organizers with any questions you may have:

Alexx Baerwald Simard: alexx.baer.sim@gmail.com
Adrian Parrish: beardrian@gmail.com

Submission link: https://forms.gle/PuRMBRq1jGAUeY1w6

AGH! A Variety Show For A Cause
2025-05-22 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $9 Adv (plus fees) | $12 At The Door
• 21+
AGH! A variety show for a cause:
Ali Forrest and Anna Goldstein bring together their favorite musicians, comedians, puppets, weirdos, and general aficionados to raise money for a cause they care about. Join us May 22nd for A Good Hang to raise money for Time Out Youth.

Performers:
Pip the puppet: Anna Goldstein & Katie Kinser // Ben Burrows // Eric Maust // Avery Powers // Ali Forrest

TutuTonight: Sunday Funday Show!!
2025-06-24 19:00, 2025-08-24 17:00
Doors: 5pm | Show: 6pm
Tickets: $8 Advance | $10 Day Of
• 21+
Join us for this one of a kind LIVE variety show, featuring live music, comedy, local celebrity interviews, burlesque, drag performances, and MORE—at Petra’s!
Brought to you by TuTu Tuesday and Makeshift Shows, this is TuTu TONIGHT!

Round Of A Paws 2
2025-07-24 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $10 at the door
• 21+
Looking for a fun night out after you’ve been working like a dog all day? Looking to sit back, relax, and take a load off with some live entertainment that’s otter this world? Looking to find a koala-ty event that you can brag about to all of your friends who missed it? Looking for the purr-fect event to bring a date to? Owl by yourself, and looking for a good event to meet like-minded people at? Looking to have an un-fur-gettable experience, and contribute to a great cause?
Whale for Fox sake, look no further – Round of a Paws has you covered!
Round of a Paws is a standup comedy experience showcasing the best local comedians right here in charlotte! But that’s not all! – 25% of all ticket sales from Round of Paws are donated to the Humane Society of Charlotte! At Round of a Paws, you have the op-purr-tunity to enjoy a meowtain of laughter while donating to an ape-solutely fabulous organization for a great cause!
Bring a date, bring a deer friend, bring anyone with purr-sonality and relax at a hiss-terical show knowing that you’re contributing to a great cause! Grab a drink at the bar, and guffaw at the comedians while they are kitten around! Come out to Round of a Paws to enjoy a night with people who share a love for comedy and animals, and you’ll leave happy as a clam!

AGH! A Variety Show For A Cause
2025-09-18 19:00, 2026-01-22 20:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
$12 At The Door (plus online fees)
• 21+

AGH! A variety show for a cause:
Ali Forrest and Anna Goldstein bring together their favorite musicians, comedians, puppets, weirdos, and general aficionados to raise money for a cause they care about. Join us September 18th for A Good Hang to raise money for a good cause.
Performers:
Pip the puppet: Anna Goldstein // Ali Forrest // More TBA!

Queerly: A Variety Show
2026-01-15 20:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $7 Adv (with fees) | $10 Day Of
• 21+

Come to the first Queerly of 2026 and see some amazing drag by our favorite kings:
@jackharnessdrag
@liamlaughinofficial
@willcharmerofficial
Hear some great music by the incredibly talented:
@johnmaddrey
@mandako_art
And some hilarious comedy by:
@nik.narain
@beardrian

Night Class: An Unserious Powerpoint Presentation
2026-01-29 20:00
Doors: 7pm | Class: 8pm
Tickets: $10 At The Door
• 21+

On behalf of the Department of Subversive Sciences, Creative Liberties, and Sports, we invite our esteemed pupils to Petra’s Schoolhouse for the Winter 2026 offering of Night Class. We eagerly present Charlotte’s top un-credentialed faculty, who promise to deliver the field’s cutting-edge corrupted curriculum. Please be advised that this class will be R-rated.

Audience vote will determine winners in the following three categories: Funniest, Most Insightful, and Hottest Lectures.

Night Class - Unserious Powerpoint Assembly
2026-04-23 20:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $10
21+

On behalf of the Department of Subversive Sciences, we invite our esteemed pupils to Petra’s Schoolhouse for the Spring 2026 offering of Night Class. We eagerly present Charlotte’s top un-credentialed faculty, who promise to deliver the field’s cutting-edge corrupted curriculum. Please be advised that this class will be R-rated. Audience vote will determine winners in the following three categories: Funniest, Most Insightful, and Hottest Lectures.
Class details:
Thursday, April 23rd
8 pm
Petra’s | $10 at the door
21+ with a valid ID
Signed,
Department Chairs @welcome_to_the_galexxy and @beardrian and Headmistress @thatvintagedame

Night Class - Unserious Powerpoint Assembly
2026-05-28 20:00, 2026-07-30 20:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
Tickets: $10
21+

On behalf of the Department of Subversive Sciences, we invite our esteemed pupils to Petra’s Schoolhouse for the Spring 2026 offering of Night Class. We eagerly present Charlotte’s top un-credentialed faculty, who promise to deliver the field’s cutting-edge corrupted curriculum. Please be advised that this class will be R-rated. Audience vote will determine winners in the following three categories: Funniest, Most Insightful, and Hottest Lectures.
Class details:
Thursday, July 30th
8 pm
Petra’s | $10 at the door
Signed,
Department Chairs @welcome_to_the_galexxy and @beardrian and Headmistress @thatvintagedame
