Verge Theater is amid its 21st(!) Season and the excitement continues into the holiday season. Recover from your weekend with Improv Comedy! 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 show on December 28th at 7pm. Reservations online at vergetheater.com or in person at Cactus Records in Downtown Bozeman Verge Theater is also offering the Bert and Charlie’s Gift of the Magi family show.
Christmas elves Bert and Charlie are back in a Holiday puppet show for the whole family! In this humorous retelling of O. Henry’s classic tale, Bert and Charlie attempt to help a young couple in love find just the right gifts for the Holidays…with disastrous consequences. Now the questions is, can they make everything right by Christmas morning? Funny, heartwarming, and silly, this show will entertain and delight every member of the family. The last show will take place December 19th at 2pm. $7 for all. Go to vergetheater.com for online reservations, or in person at Cactus Records.
Jimmy’s First Christmas (on parole) will light up the stage this holiday season. Written by local comedic favorite, Ryan Cassavaugh, this hilarious Christmas Tale of a family in flux will make its World Debut at Verge Theater in December! Jimmy has just been released from the State Prison after serving time for a “crime of passion”. All he wants is to pick up life where it was interrupted 18 months prior, but life on the outside hasn’t remained static. His brother Donnie lives in a state of confusion and paranoia brought on by recreational drug use; Marcie (the cougar next door) has waged war on discretion; his sister-in-law Jackie is in need of a life; his other brother Eddie has finally made a life; his estranged wife Debbie is acting strangely; his mother wants to wake up from this awful dream that is her family; and his parole officer just wants to know where the hell Jimmy is! If you think Christmas with your family is tough, come and get a dose of hilarious hi-jinx as Jimmy attempts to unravel his family and place them back into the neat packages he desires after months in the slammer. Then again, perhaps life behind bars with strangers was better than a holiday with his family.
Jimmy’s First Christmas (on parole) will run Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th at 8pm. Tickets are $14. Early reservations online at vergetheater.com or in person at Cactus Records in Downtown Bozeman. Verge Theater is located at 2304 N. 7th Ave, in the strip mall across from Murdoch’s at the EXTREMELY FUN edge of Bozeman. Visit vergetheater.com for more information. See you at one of these exciting events! •
