NOVA Center for the Performing Arts

Cabaret Club
2025-03-16 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-02-16 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-01-19 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
A joyful time of song and laughing! Come and join other singers at NOVA! No admission, just an opportunity to raise your voice!

Hansel & Gretel
2025-03-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-15 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-14 19:30 - 21:30
Sarah Waggoner – Gretel

Bethany Smith – Hansel

Mandi Barrus – Gingerbread Witch

Kathryn Clark – Mother

Jan Michael Kliewer – Father

Debra Gloor- Sandman

Janie Sutton – Dew Fairy

Composer Englebert Humperdick

Music Director/ Chorus Master/ Accompanist – Dulais Rhys

Director – Anthony Buck

“Hansel and Gretel” is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The libretto was written in German by Humperdinck’s sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale of the same name. Our production is sung in an English translation.

ACT IHansel and Gretel, the young children of a poor broom-maker are at home and hungry since the family is nearly out of food. Gretel shows Hansel some milk that a neighbor has given for the family’s supper. Their mother returns and is angry with how little work the children have done. She accidentally spills the milk and chases the children out into the woods to pick strawberries. The father returns home with an unexpected load of food after selling all his brooms at the market. The mother tells him she has sent the children into the woods. The father says there is a dangerous Witch who lives there, and the parents go to look for their children.

ACT IIIn the woods, Hansel and Gretel pick strawberries but soon get lost and grow frightened. When night falls, the Sandman comes to bring them sleep. The children say their evening prayer, and while they dream, guardian angels come to protect them.

ACT IIIThe Dew Fairy wakes Hansel and Gretel when morning comes, and the children discover the Witch’s gingerbread house. The Witch captures the children and makes a plan to eat them. Gretel outwits the Witch, and defeats her by pushing her into her own oven. All the children the Witch captured before are turned back from gingerbread to real people. The mother and father find the children, and all live happily ever after.

Funky Bunch Improv Comedy
2025-03-07 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-01-03 19:30 - 21:00 | NOVA Center for the Performing Arts, 2317 Montana Avenue, Billings, MT, 59101, United States
NOVA’s High School Improv Troupe, with guest appearance by Funky Bunch, Jr.

Reader's Theatre
2025-03-02 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-02-02 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-01-05 17:30 - 19:00

Auditions for Once Upon a Mattress
2025-02-23 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-02-22 16:00 - 17:30 | NOVA Center for the Performing Arts, 2317 Montana Avenue, Billings, MT, 59101, United States
The hilarious send-up of the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea.” Music by Dean Fuller, Jay Thompson and Marshall Barer. Directed by Ben Bishop. Performances will be April 25 – 27 and May 2-4, 2025.

For the Love of the Arts
2025-02-14 18:30 - 21:00
Date night, great night! Plan to attend the always fun “For the Love of the Arts” at NOVA! Celebrate your love, your friends, your family, YOUR love of the arts during this delightful evening filled with tasty treats and a chance to win one (or more) bottles of wine during the enjoyable wine raffle. Included in the evening….plenty of silent auction items, mostly gift cards, for a variety of “date nights”…ALL which include tickets to future NOVA productions! Bring the kids….on-site childcare and activities during the event! This casual FUNdraiser is always well attended and enjoyed, AND keeps local community theater alive and well! #Supportlocal #localcommunitytheater #novabillings #billingsmt #fortheentirefamily #montanaave #ThingsToDoWithKids #NOVACenterforthePerformingArts #billingsevents #thingstodoinBillings #NOVACenter #BillingsMontana #billings #greatgift #artsinbillings #buyticketsnow #nonprofitorganization #music #specialevent #DowntownBillingsAlliance #NOVA #awonderfulwaytosaythankyou #valentinesday #galentines #brobuds

Enchanted Bookshop
2025-02-09 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-02-08 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-07 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-02 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-02-01 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-01-31 19:30 - 21:00
During the day, A Likely Story may look like any other used bookstore. But at night, it’s a place where magic happens. That’s when the characters inside the books come alive.

Six of those characters — Dorothy Gale, Robin Hood, Pollyanna, Sherlock Holmes, Heidi, and Tom Sawyer — long to help Margie, the scatterbrained owner, save her struggling store. But they’re not allowed to leave the building or be seen by human eyes. So when a pair of smugglers comes looking for a stolen necklace hidden inside one of the books, the characters are torn. Should they warn Margie and risk disappearing forever? Or can they find a way to defeat the crooks without being seen?

Featuring additional appearances by such beloved literary characters as the Queen of Hearts, Long John Silver, and Doctor Dolittle, this charming comedy celebrates the joy of reading in a fresh, fun-filled way. This is a NOVA Youth Conservatory production.

Funky Bunch Improv Comedy -Canceled this date only! See many of the performers in the production of "The Enchanted Bookshop"
2025-02-07 19:30 - 21:00 | NOVA Center for the Performing Arts, 2317 Montana Avenue, Billings, MT, 59101, United States

Over the River and Through the Woods
2025-01-26 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-01-24 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-01-19 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-18 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-01-17 19:30 - 21:30
Nick – Elias Jones

Frank – Dustin Timmons

Aida – Jane Van Dyk

Nunzio – Josh Williams

Emma – Ginger Roll

Caitlyn – Olivia Slade

Directed by Cora Brink

Written by Joe DiPietro

Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he’s been offered a dream job. The job he’s been waiting for—marketing executive—would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn’t sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O’Hare as bait…we won’t give the ending away here.

A Christmas Carol
2024-12-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-21 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-12-20 19:30 - 21:30
Scrooge – Geoffrey Curtiss

Keith Miller

DeLaney Harrington

Matthew Clark

Alessia Caldwell

A Christmas Carol by Patrick Barlow is not your ordinary Christmas Carol. It’s packed with all the deep meaning and emotion of the classic but with 122% more laughs! 5 actors shall tell the tale. One to play Scrooge himself, and 4 to play everyone else!
