Current Season
True West, by Sam Shepard
February 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 2025
Written in 1980 by legendary Sam Shepard True West tells of the sibling rivalry between two brothers. Set against the dreams of a changing modern-day American West, Shepard wrote a savage and darkly humorous version of the Cain and Abel story while satirizing the modern America’s exploitation of the romanticized cowboys-and-Indians West of American mythology.
Smoke Fall, by Noah Haidle
June 6 - 15, 2025
Magical realism meets manic vaudeville in a family drama unlike any you’ve ever seen. Fetuses swap philosophy while awaiting their birth, a daughter eats dirt and doesn’t speak, a father is about to drive away and never return, and there’s an apple tree growing through the walls of the house. Whipping from astonishing tenderness to profound humor and back again, SMOKEFALL explores the lives of a family in a lyrical treatise on the fragility of life and the power of love.
Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard
(Past Performance)
Written by Tom Stoppard in 1993, Arcadia follows two groups of characters as they navigate love, sex, and the pursuit of knowledge. The play explores themes such as the nature of time, the relationship between order and disorder, and the power of human knowledge, while exploring the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty. Arcadia takes place on an English estate in two different time periods: 1809–1812 and the present day.
BAT presented Arcadia at the Yellowstone Center from October 4 - 13, 2024.