FIRST PLACE: Verge
SECOND PLACE: Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
THIRD PLACE: Broad Comedy

We love Verge Theater for being a bit out there. The black box on Bozeman’s north side isn’t afraid of the tough subjects, of throwing puppets on the main stage or taking risks with staging. This year’s productions included “Row After Row,” the life treatise of a trio of civil war reenactors; “These Shining Lives,” which tackled working conditions through a story of radium poisoning; “Talking With,” a series of monologues by 11 women and a reprise of Ryan Cassavaugh’s original family comedy “Jimmy’s First Christmas on Parole.”