Verge Theater is still at it after many successful seasons and the excitement continues this winter! Come check out what Improv Comedy is all about! Once again Verge Theater is offering up a Monday Night sacrifice of the most daring, death defying type of live theater there is: Improv!
They call it Improv on the Verge! Improv Monday Nights feature The Bozeman Improverts who will beguile you with their laser-like wits, sharp tongues, and obnoxiously large heads. These masterful, main stage players improvise sketches built around audience suggestions, play improv games similar to those you see on Who’s Line Is It Anyway?, and perform long form improv that is basically making up short plays on the spot. You have to experience this to believe it!! It’s a mere $7 to get in and laugh like hell at our team of S.W.A.T. trained Improv Players. (S.W.A.T. = SouthWest Alternative Theater).
Upcoming shows on February 1st, 15th, & 29th, all at 7pm. Reservations online at vergetheater.com or in person at Cactus Records in Downtown Bozeman. In February, Verge Theater will offer an unflinching look at a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness. Next To Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 TONY Awards including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next To Normal was also chosen as “one of the year’s ten best shows” by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. Directed by Todd Hoberecht, a stellar cast of local talent, featuring the incomparable Heidi Krutchkoff, will take audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting a conflicted family’s story with love, sympathy and heart. Dad is an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal, because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. There will be a talk back with the cast, director, and mental health professionals after the performance on Saturday, February 13th. Verge will also be offering a FREE student performance on Campus on Thursday, February 18th in Ballroom A at 7pm. There will be a similar panel talk back after this show. Join on Fridays and Saturdays from February 12th-27th at Verge Theater, the Little Black Box on the edge of Bozeman. Shows begin promptly at 8pm, except for the Feb. 13th show (at Verge) and the Feb. 18th show (on Campus) which will begin at 7pm. Verge’s Improv comedians delight and entertain kids of all ages at the Silly Moose Comedy Improv Show. Silly (the Moose) invites all of his Improv friends over and hosts a show that involves suggestions and interaction with the audience.
Bring your kids for an hour long laughfest as Silly and the gang invent stories through Improv games before your very eyes! Shows run on Saturdays at 2pm from February 20th through March 12th. Verge Theater is located at 2304 N. 7th Ave, in the strip mall across from Murdoch’s at the EXTREMELY FUN edge of Bozeman. Reservations for all shows can be made in person at Cactus Records, or online at vergetheater.com. Visit the website for more information. See you at one of these exciting shows! •