5 Best Performing Arts Venues in Kalispell, Missoula, and Northwest Montana, Montana

Mid-May through early September, the repertory group Bigfork Summer Playhouse presents Broadway musicals and comedies every night except Sunday in the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online and by mail beginning in April, and by phone starting mid-May. Children's workshops and theater are held in the same facility.

Comedies, dramas, musicals, Shakespeare in the Park, and many more performances are a sampling of the year-round schedule put on at the Hamilton Playhouse. Offerings have included "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" and "Steel Magnolias." Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office.

At the Missoula Children's Theatre, year-round productions vary from Broadway musicals to community theater for and by children from 5 to 18 years old. From October to June you can see local talent and guest artists (usually professionals) perform family favorites, and in summer there's a theater camp where kids are the stars of the productions.

The University of Montana's College of the Arts and Media manages the Montana Repertory Theatre, the only full-season professional company in the state. The Rep provides the region with a steady diet of popular Broadway shows; recent showings include War of the Worlds, Room Service and On Golden Pond.

Enjoy summer theater with the Port Polson Players. The high-quality amateur troupe puts on musicals, comedies, and dramas in a beautiful 1930s log theater.