The Tiny Theater is back this summer at the Big Sky Farmer’s Market. It all started with a 14’ cargo trailer and a couple of theater-makers who knew nothing about trailer brakes. Conceived in partnership between the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center and Nervous Theatre, The Tiny Theater is our newest experiment in putting theater on wheels and bringing it to where folks are.

An ancient concept (i.e. medieval strolling players) modernized for today’s mountain audiences, the Tiny Theater is entering its second summer with a fully operational stage featuring two performers each week, putting on tiny plays in rotation throughout the market. Powered by a multitude of rechargeable lithium batteries and solar panels, the Tiny Theater functions off the grid.

Audiences can enjoy a new stage this summer with performances that last between 7 -10 minutes in any iteration weekly at the Big Sky Farmers market. Stay for one minute or eleven; there is a tiny storyline for everybody. In addition to the novel visual spectacle, patrons also enjoy the tiny play through headphones to simulate a truly dynamic theatre experience without disrupting neighboring vendors and other performers at the market.

Based in Bozeman, MT, Nervous Theatre is a theatrical collective dedicated to creating and touring new works and radically reimagined classics. Their work places an emphasis on process and co-creation through collaborative devising. Nervous Theatre’s productions have been presented across the country, most recently at Gloucester Stage (MA), The Boston Conservatory, and Tinworks Art (MT).

All Show Dates:

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM ‡
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 5:00-8:00 PM

Runtime of each show is ~11 minutes, running continuously with short breaks all evening. This is a free event with no tickets required.

‡ Shows where Sam Pedersen is a featured performer

Songs for a New World is the perfect cozy night out to enjoy ninety minutes of transformative vocal performances supported by a four piece band.

Under the skilled guidance of director Tessa Welsch and musical director Lori Rosolowsky, this tight-knit cast of talented vocalists will guide audiences through a series of songs that intertwine inspirational, empathetic characters and history, diving deep into what it means to be human. Each song brings you into the heart and soul of the characters experiencing universal joys, sorrows, hopes and fears. Like a mirror, Songs for a New World offers the chance for you to see yourself in each story.

by Jason Robert Brown

Directed by Tessa Welsch

Music Direction by Lori Rosolowsky

All Show Dates:

Friday, February 2, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 3, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Sunday, February 4, 2023 @ 3:00 pm
Thursday, February 8, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Friday, February 9, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 10, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Wednesday, February 14, 2023 @ 7:00 pm ♡
Friday, February 16, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 17, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Sunday, February 18, 2023 @ 3:00 pm

♡ Special Valentine’s Day show including prosecco and sweet treats at your seat

Montana Ballet Company is delighted to present The Little Mermaid on Saturday, February 18th, and Sunday, February 19th, at the Willson Auditorium. The Little Mermaid premiered in Bozeman in 2019, captivating audiences with original choreography by Elizabeth DeFanti and an orchestral score by Stefan Stern. This production, with its breathtaking visuals, magical worlds both under the sea and above, and important message of self-acceptance, is an enchanting treat for the entire audience.

Music Director, Stefan Stern, will lead MBC’s outstanding orchestra of esteemed local musicians and singers who will perform the beautiful Little Mermaid score.

All Show Dates:

Saturday, February 18, 2023 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, February 19, 2023 @ 4:00 PM

Sondheim and Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods takes classic fairy tale characters such as Cinderella and Jack (he of the beanstalk!) and shows us that sometimes happy endings are... well... complicated. Never before presented in Bozeman, with a gorgeous score and hilarious dialogue, you won't want to miss a moment in the woods.

Presented by Intermountain Opera, Into the Woods will play at The Ellen Theatre and open with a special preview gala on Friday, February 3. It will run for two weekends, closing Sunday, February 12.

Intermountain Opera will partner with Thrive to explore the deep and complicated family dynamics within the story in a way that is accessible for all.

All Show Dates:

Friday, February 3, 2023 @ 6:30 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 5, 2023 @ 3:00 PM
Friday, February 10, 2023 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 11, 2023 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 12, 2023 @ 3:00 PM

Heathers The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicized ass...but J.D. has another plan for that bullet.

Brought to you by the award-winning creative team of Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness, “Desperate Housewives”), Laurence O’Keefe (Bat Boy, Legally Blonde) and Andy Fickman (Reefer Madness, She’s the Man). Heathers The Musical is a hilarious, heartfelt, and homicidal new show based on the greatest teen comedy of all time. With its moving love story, laugh-out-loud comedy, and unflinching look at the joys and anguish of high school, Heathers will be Verge’s most popular new musical. Are you in, or are you out?

All Show Dates:

Friday, September 20, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 21, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 22, 2019 @ 3:00 PM
Thursday, September 26, 2019 @ 8:00 PM*
Friday, September 27, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 28, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 29, 2019 @ 3:00 PM
Thursday, October 3, 2019 @ 8:00 PM**
Friday, October 4, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 5, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Sunday, October 6, 2019 @ 3:00 PM

*Sponsor performance by invitation only
**New show time due to popular demand

This game-changing and groundbreaking musical is a sophisticated, honest and wildly funny look at modern adult relationships. On the night of his 35th birthday, Bobby contemplates his bachelorhood, opening the door for his diverse and often hilarious married friends to explain the pros and cons of taking on a spouse. The award-winning sparkling score features such hits as You Could Drive a Person Crazy, The Ladies Who Lunch, Side by Side, Companyand the iconic Being Alive. 

The Ellen Theatre delivers this Broadway blockbuster with an A-list of 14 multi-talented singers, dancers and actors, under the artful direction of stage veteran Joel Jahnke. Stefan Stern serves as musical director, choreography is by Shari Watson, costumes are by Claudia Boddy, and the set design is by Tom Watson.

The cast: Steven Harris-Weiel, Cory Barrows, Miles Duffy, Sam Pedersen, Keith Krutchkoff, Coco Douma, Blake Watson, Anabella Joy, David Fine, Kathy Jahnke, Darin Heitt-Rennie, Lauren Eva Lane, Susan Miller, Kalen Watson 

The original production of Company opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York in April of 1970, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth and under the direction of Hal Prince. The show ran for 705 performances and was nominated for 14 Tony Awards, winning six including Best Musical.

All Show Dates:

Friday, April 12, 2019 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 13, 2019 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 14, 2019 @ 3:00 PM
Friday, April 19, 2019 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 20, 2019 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 21, 2019 @ 3:00 PM

Verge is psyched to present the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Fun Home, a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and featuring Jeanine Tesori & Lisa Kron's Tony Award-winning score and book (played by a live band!), Fun Home will leave you breathless. But don't take our word for it. Ask the critics:
"A rare beauty, extraordinary and heart-gripping." -Ben Brantley, The New York Times.
"The best musical of the season." -New York Magazine.
"Few shows are as moving, relatable, and funny." -Associated Press.
"The Best Broadway Musical in years, with the finest score in a decade." -Huffington Post.

All Show Dates:

Friday, February 8, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, February 9, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, February 15, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, February 16, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 17, 2019 @ 3:00 PM*
Friday, February 22, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, February 23, 2019 @ 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 24, 2019 @ 3:00 PM*

* New show times due to popular demand

Set sail with this classic comedy that boasts one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history. A fresh take on one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular comic operas, this updated version of The Pirates of Penzance took New York by storm when it premiered in Central Park in 1980, leading to a subsequent smash-hit Broadway run.

Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious, hopeful farce follows young Frederic, an orphan who has mistakenly been apprenticed to an ineffectual but raucous band of pirates. He disavows the pirates' way of life and falls for the beautiful Mabel. Frederic's melodious tones win over the heart of Major-General Stanley's songbird daughter, Mabel, but when the Pirate King discovers that General Stanley has lied about being an orphan to keep the pirates from stealing all of his belongings and carrying off his bevy of beautiful daughters, an "ingenious paradox" may prevent the budding romance and lead to the death of "The very model of a modern Major-General."

All Show Dates:

Friday, October 12, 2018 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, October 14, 2018 @ 3:00 PM

Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!
Music by Richard Rodgers, Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the play "Green Grow the Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs

All Show Dates:

Friday, July 13, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 14, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 15, 2018 @ 3 PM
Thursday, July 19, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, July 20, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 21, 2018 @ 3 PM
Saturday, July 21, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 22, 2018 @ 3 PM
Thursday, July 26, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, July 27, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 28, 2018 @ 2 PM*
Saturday, July 28, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 29, 2018 @ 3 PM

* New show time due to popular demand

Alexander is having a bad day. A terrible day. A horrible day. To be quite honest, it's a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. But then, everybody has bad days, sometimes. In this delightful adaptation of her popular book, Judith Viorst sets Alexander's rather trying life to music and brings to the stage one of America's feistiest characters. Not only does Alexander wake up with gum in his hair, but his mother forgets to pack him dessert, and his best friend decides he's not his best friend anymore. And if that's not bad enough, Alexander's brothers don't have any cavities but—he does. And just when it can't get any worse, there are lima beans for supper and —yuck!—kissing on TV. It is enough to make anyone want to go to Australia. Alexander's struggles with life's daily dramas will not only entertain but educate young audiences as they identify with Alexander and the obstacles he encounters, encouraging them to share their feelings and to realize that bad days happen—even in Australia. Commissioned and premiered by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Book and Lyrics by Judith Viorst. Music by Shelly Markham

All Show Dates:

Saturday, April 7, 2018 @ 3:00 PM
Saturday, April 14, 2018 @ 3:00 PM
Saturday, April 21, 2018 @ 3:00 PM
Saturday, April 28, 2018 @ 3:00 PM

A delightful romantic comedy that soars through the exhilarating and sometimes confusing anticipation of love. Sales clerks in a Hungarian parfumerie, Georg and Amalia spend their days quarreling with each other; yet unbeknownst to them, at night they write adoring love letters to each other as lonely heart’s pen pals. How their discovery of each other unfolds is nothing short of endearing.

She Loves Me is based on Miklós László play Parfumerie, which also inspired the 1940 Jimmy Stewart-Margaret Sullavan film The Shop Around the Corner, the 1949 Judy Garland-Van Johnson musical version of In the Good Old Summertime, and most recently the 1998 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan film of You’ve Got Mail. Book by Joe Masteroff and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. 

All Show Dates:

February 7, 2018 @ 6:00 PM (Gala Fundraiser)
February 9, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
February 10, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
February 11, 2018 @ 3:00 PM
February 15, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
February 16, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
February 17, 2018 @ 7:30 PM
February 18, 2018 @ 3:00 PM

Follow the journey of ill-suited and ill-fated lovers through the dark and secretive halls and edges of cathedrals, palaces and prisons. Puccini’s vibrant and mournful lyrical score will be transport you to the hauntingly beautiful hidden corners of Rome, where infatuation and devotion twist and twine in contention.

All Show Dates:

May 12, 2017 @ 7:00 pm
May 14, 2017 @ 3:00 pm