My Barking Dog

The wild needs a home, too.” This phrase appears twice in Eric Coble’s nightmare comedy, My Barking Dog, coming to the Verge Theater’s mainstage March 15 through the 30th. It may be only six words but when uttered in the play, which…

Born With Teeth

Kevin Brustuen

Starting on February 22, Bozeman Actors Theatre (BAT) is featuring Born With Teeth, a new play by Liz Duffy Adams. This innovative play features a series of spirited conversations and debates between two young playwrights: William Shakespeare and…

Frights AND Fun All Over Bozeman

Joseph Montalbano

It’s finally that time of year where the colors start changing and the weather starts to cool off, and I cannot be happier to welcome it. The warm drinks, the fall leaves — the entire fall experience is lovely. For all these reasons and…

Bradford Rosenbloom: Bridging Theater and Community

In the realm of theater, visionaries constantly emerge, pushing the boundaries of creativity and storytelling. One such luminary is Bradford Rosenbloom, a name becoming synonymous with innovation and transformative experiences within the theater…

Last Best Comedy Fest Brings In Top Talent

Angie Ripple

Comedy enthusiasts, mark your calendars for what will be the funniest event of the year: Last Best Comedy Fest — the first-ever Standup & Improv Festival hosted by and for Bozeman’s comedy community! The only dedicated standup and…

A Ship of Fools is Sailing to Bozeman

String and Shadow, a wildly creative, multi-disciplinary theatre troupe from Olympia, Washington, will be performing Ship of Fools: A Giant Puppet Odyssey at 6:30 pm Friday and Saturday, August 11th and 12th on the Emerson Center’s west…

Bozeman’s Burlesque Takeover

Kathleen Johns

The dramatically lit keyhole on stage peeks out amidst flowing velvet drapes, giving off an air of mystery, of excitement. Elegant cocktail tables dot the room as neatly attired servers table hop, taking food and drink orders, filling water glasses…

Mary Page Marlowe

The Blue Slipper Theater in Livingston presents Mary Page Marlowe, by Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright Tracy Letts, May 5th through 7th and 11th through 14th. Performances on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday will begin at 8pm with Sunday…

Spring Break 2023 Staycation Ideas

Angie Ripple

March is not only the month of my birth, but Montana’s allotted month for spring break. With a full week off for local students, families are challenged with how to fill the time. If you’re staycationing, you’re probably looking for…

Cabaret at Verge Will Steal Your Heart

Missy Glenn

A love triangle. Raunchy dancing, singing, jokes and laughter. The downfall of a free-speech government, the rise of a brutal, oppressing regime. Sexual tension amidst sexual confusion. Jazz, tights, lights, ACTION!While this all sounds like a new…

Ten Ways to Navigate Winter in Bozeman

Steve McGann

When I began a list for this article, some of my potential suggestions seemed familiar.I looked back to an article I had written for Mental Health Month last fall, my recommendations looked like some of the same ones with a hat and gloves. Still, it…

Middletown: 'Exploring What It Means To Be Human’

As an organization committed to “radical inclusivity,” Verge Theater fosters community in everything they do, whether it be through their prison theater program, educational outreach or fully-produced productions. This tight-knit community now…

A Decade of Arts Under a Big Sky

It’s been ten years since the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center opened its doors for its first performance. In a small town like Big Sky, ten years is monumental; many people wouldn’t recognize Town Center now if they’d passed…

Verge Teen Theatre: The Prom

Missy Glenn

Since 1994, Verge Theater has been bringing entertainment and opportunities for expression to Bozeman’s consumers of the arts. Known then as the Equinox Theater, (think Camp Equinox), in 2011 Verge emerged to fit the changing mission of the…

Reimagining Brecht with Nervous Theatre

Nervous Theatre is a nomadic theatrical collective with a penchant for adventurous, innovative storytelling. Their high-spirited productions often feature classic works that have been “radically reimagined” by the performers. This group…

No Time Off For Paula Poundstone

Angie Ripple

Paula Poundstone returns to Bozeman’s Ellen Theatre Saturday, September 17, 2022. Her witty nature and ability to poke fun at just about anything has kept audiences engaged for decades. She says, “I tell myself my fans are smart, but you…

Tinworks Art Spotlights The Stories Of Indigenous Women

Tinworks Art is a local non-profit organization located in Bozeman’s northeast neighborhood. Founded in 2018, the group has quickly gained momentum in the art scene, providing welcoming and immersive art experiences each summer in venues…

Bozeman Actors USO Tour of Asia

Kevin Brustuen

The Montana College Players, part of the theatre program at what is today’s MSU, were selected by the USO (United Service Organization) to be part of its 1962 Tour of Asia. This was a special honor and testament to the high-quality theatre in…

Angels in America

Colleen Angarone

This month, Bozeman residents have the opportunity to attend a performance of Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches. Debuting for the first time in Montana, the Broadway hit from award-winning playwright Tony Kushner, directed by longtime…

The Montana Mikado - Intermountain Opera Bozeman

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Soren Kisiel of Bozeman’s own Broad Comedy and Camp Equinox updates Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado to present-day Montana. This brand-new & revolutionary adaptation combines Arthur Sullivan’s original 19th-Century music with Kisiel’s riotous satire of contemporary Bozeman culture.

The Montana Mikado

Gilbert and Sullivan Revised

Kevin Brustuen

Intermountain Opera of Bozeman presents The Montana Mikado, an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, at the Ellen Theatre, opening Friday, February 4th. The most famous creators of English Opera in the 19thCentury, W.S. Gilbert and…

Shakespeare’s Complete Works 50 Years of MSIP

Kevin Brustuen

Last summer I drove into Fishtail, Montana, an unincorporated small town located in a wide spot in the road south of Columbus. On this sweltering hot afternoon, the tiny town was still and quiet, biding its time for the sun to go down and the heat to…

Montana's Last Best Comedy

Kevin Brustuen

This September, the former Colonel Blacks nightclub in downtown Bozeman became Last Best Comedy—the very first club devoted to comedy in Montana’s history. Comedians Molly Hannan, Annie O‘Connor, and Levin O’Connor felt it was…

Shakespeare in the Parks Summer 2021

Kevin Brustuen

For 48 years, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks (MSIP) has brought free productions of Shakespeare to rural and remote communities across Montana and surrounding states. This summer, MSIP brings two more plays to stages across a five-state area…

Random Acts of Silliness Offers Fun Arts Activities For This Summer

Jennifer Verzuh

photo: Loneman PhotographyChildren’s thoughts on what a rainbow unicorn likes to eat for Sunday brunch can offer the jumping off point for a full-fledged theatrical story for the Random Acts of Silliness kids improv group, according to…

Virtual Spring at Verge Theatre

Remember feeling joy? Excitement? The rush of learning? You can have it again! We have so very many amazing opportunities to GET YOUR THEATER ON this spring! Think of it as cross-training for your humanity as we prepare to exit the Covid cocoon.Are…

Polaroid Stories

Kevin Brustuen

In January of 2020, Bozeman Actors Theatre (BAT) began rehearsing a production of Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories, intending to stage nine performances in April of 2020. Rehearsals were well underway when Covid-19 reached Gallatin County, and…

KITCHEN DWELLERS LIVE FROM THE WILMA - SATURDAY FEB 27

Brian Ripple

KITCHEN DWELLERS LIVE FROM THE WILMASATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2710PM ET | 8PM MTRegular price $14.99 Shawn Swain: I heard you had some some questions for us.  Bozeman Magazine: Well, you know us at Bozeman Magazine & Ripple Sound have…

Born In Bozeman: Social Distance Powwow

Angie Ripple

“Good drums get the dancers out there, good songs get them to dance well. Without drum groups there is no music. No music, no dance, no powwow.” - Roberts, Chris (1992) Powwow Country It wasn’t the lack of good drums that made for…

Warren Miller Performing Arts Center

Kevin Brustuen

About forty miles south of Bozeman is the town of Big Sky and the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, which brings world-renowned performing artists to the people who live and travel to Southwestern Montana.For over seven years, John Zirkle…

Standing On The Verge

Cassie Pfannenstiel

Bozeman has a vibrant performing arts scene, full of creative folks who work hard to put on productions for our community. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a serious toll on artists of all kinds; many creatives are struggling to make ends meet…

2021 Bozeman’s Choice Reader Poll Vote Now Thru Nov 7

Angie Ripple

Each October since 2014, we’ve asked our readers and the greater Bozeman community to vote in the Bozeman’s Choice Reader Poll. Thankfully it’s October, and we get to ask you to vote again, and as you put your stamp of approval on…

Verge Theatre Curtain Call for 2304 N. 7th

What I’m about to tell you is very difficult, but it is done with great gratitude and optimism for the future: It’s time to move on from our beloved strip mall.This theater has been our home for 22 years. While no one person has been…

Theatre Culture in Bozeman

Kevin Brustuen

Gary Cooper, Hollywood star of the 1940s and 50s born in Helena and former student at Montana State College (today’s MSU), is enshrined in Bozeman’s history with a star embedded in the sidewalk near the Rialto Theatre in downtown Bozeman…