Community theater stages zoning hearing in commission chambers

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:06:29 +0000

The Bozeman Community Players opened their latest production Thursday night in the City Commission chambers on Rouse Avenue. “Zoning Variance: A Drama in Three Acts” runs through Saturday with a pay-what-you-can sliding scale that tops out at the median monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment.

Director Mara Lindstrom said the script was transcribed from actual planning board meetings between 2019 and 2024. “We didn’t write a word of it,” she said. “The dialogue is verbatim. The pauses are verbatim. The part where someone says ‘point of order’ and nobody knows what it means — that’s three minutes of the second act.”

Community theater stages our town with Bozeman updates

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:05:31 +0000

The Verge Theater Company opened its season Thursday with Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” directed by Mara Lindqvist and lightly adapted so that Grover’s Corners now has a brewery on Main and a median home price that makes the Stage Manager weep quietly into his clipboard.

Act One proceeded conventionally until Professor Willard, played by MSU adjunct Dale Houser, delivered the geological history of the region and added that the soil composition makes septic systems “a real conversation starter at closing.” Several audience members nodded.

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Community theater stages zoning hearing in commission chambers

Community theater stages our town with Bozeman updates