2010
July 2 - August 27 -- Every Friday evening at 7pm Theater in the Trees presents "A Ravel without Applause", an original melodrama by Bob LaVelle, directed by Larry Dennis. A traveling troupe of Shakespearian actors visits the old west town of Coolwater.
July 10 - August 28 -- Starlight Mountain Theater presents "The Scarlet Pimpernel".
July 6 -- August 27 -- Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents "An Ideal Husband". Oscar Wilde's sharp wit takes center stage.
August 6 - August 29 --Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents "Othello" A tale of love discovered in fondness but lost in fury.
August 17 - September 11 -- Starlight Mountain Theater presents "The Foreigner".
August 18 - 28 -- Alley Repertory Theater presents Steven Dietz's "Last of the Boys". This fierce, funny, haunted story is an examining of identities and of the lasting mark history puts on those who experience deadly conflict. Dietz, a Steinberg New Play Award finalist for this play, says "Last of the Boys" “is less a history of the (Vietnam) war and more a history of the men and women who have to survive it on a daily basis.” Performances are at Visual Arts Collective, doors at 7p with show at 8. Saturday matinee show at 2p.
August 20 - 28 -- Musical Theatre of Idaho presents "Cats". In 2006, the MTI was chosen as one of the very first regional theater companies to perform CATS. It turned out to be one of our best selling shows of all time. Now it's back, with some of the same actors who performed in the 2006 production. CATS has played to millions of audience members world wide and continues to tour internationally. Based on the works of acclaimed poet T.S. Elliot, and the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, CATS is sure to please audiences of all ages.
September 3 - 18 -- Boise Little Theater presents Ken Ludwig's hilarious farce "Lend Me A Tenor". Directed by John Myers. It is the biggest night in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company’s world famous tenor Tito Morelli. He is to perform Otello, his greatest role, at the gala season opener.Through a hilarious series of crazy mishaps, Morelli is given a double dose of tranquilizers and passes out. What to do?
September 3 - September 26 -- Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents "The Woman in Black" The smash hit of London's West End for more than 20 years!
September 17 - October 30 -- Knock'em Dead presents "Bye Bye Birdie".
October 6 – 30 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents the World Premiere of "The Krumblin Foundation", written and performed by Joe Golden and Tom Willmorth. Come see the two funniest men in Boise as they bring a cast of larger-than-life characters to the stage for a night of brilliant satire. This is the story of Bess Krumblin, a wealthy widow with grand plans for the family fortune. She wants to sink it all into a massive arts foundation and transform her little town into a "cultural mecca." But can the Arts save Capital Bluff?
October 8 - 10 -- Opera Idaho presents Rorem’s "Our Town", opening the “Made in the USA” series . Performances at The Egyptian Theatre.
October 13 – 30 -- Company of Fools presents Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virgnia Woolf". Directed by K.O. Ogilvie, the play was winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play. When George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, invite a handsome young professor and his mousy wife home for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous.
October 13 - 23 -- Alley Repertory Theater presents "Killadelphia, a one-man mixtape of a city". In the summer of 2008, it was often said that Philadelphia had “more bodies than days.” The city was in the midst of a murder epidemic that put it on par with some third world countries. Determined to take an unflinching look at the causes of the crime rate and its effect on the community, playwright/performer Sean Christopher Lewis introduces us to the inmates of Graterford Prison in this one-man show. Performed at Visual Arts Collective, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm. Saturday matinees at 2 pm.
October 15 - 30 -- Boise Little Theater presents "Death And Taxes", a comedy by Pat Cook, directed by Mike Mullens. Ever wonder what goes on at a small-town city council meeting? In Hendricks, they're looking for a murderer.
October 22 - 30 -- Musical Theatre of Idaho presents "Jekyll & Hyde". An evocative tale of the epic battle between good and evil, “Jekyll & Hyde” is based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart.
October 28 - 30 -- Encore Theater presents Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, travels to Transylvania to transfer real estate in England to Count Dracula, but soon finds himself a prisoner in the Count’s castle.
At the Nampa Civic Center. Tickets are on sale now at www.encoreetc.org.
November 19 - December 18 -- Knock'em Dead presents "A Christmas Carol".
November 23 – December 18 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents "Tru", by Jay Presson Allen from the words and works of Truman Capote. One of the 20th century’s most colorful and controversial figures, Truman Capote, made his mark on the literary world with the short novel, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and what he called a “non-fiction novel,” In Cold Blood. By December of 1975, he was known as much for his extravagant social life as for his accomplishments as a writer. When the first few chapters of Answered Prayers were published in Esquire magazine, his famous razor wit was sharper than ever, but his targets were his friends. Jay Presson Allen’s award winning Broadway hit captures Capote at a fascinating turning point in his life and career. Tom Ford (I Am My Own Wife) will return to the BCT stage, bringing to life the voice, the charm, and the humor of a truly unique personality.
November 26 - December 11 -- Boise Little Theater presents Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" with book by David Ives and Paul Blake. Directed by Wendy Koeppl. The stage adaptation of the classic film tells the story of two showbiz buddies who stage a winter show in a picturesque Vermont inn, and find their perfect mates in the bargain.
December 3 - 11 -- Musical Theatre of Idaho presents "Cinderella". The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. As adapted for the stage, with great warmth and more than a touch of hilarity, the hearts of children and adults alike still soar when the slipper fits.
December 4 - 5 -- Opera Idaho presents Menotti’s "Amahl and the Night Visitors". Performances at The Egyptian Theatre.
December 8 -25 -- Alley Repertory Theater presents "There's Chinese Tunnels under Boise and other Local Legends", written by Nick Garcia & Friends. Nick and friends time travel through our beloved city and the local folklore, urban legends, and pop culture that pervade our collective consciousness. Come ready to have your buttons pushed, your funny bone mauled, your eyes rolled, your mind blown… and your love for Boise renewed. No show on December 24. Evening show only on December 25. Performances are at Visual Arts Collective.
December 14 – 31 -- Company of Fools presents the farce "Moonlight & Magnolias". Written by Ron Hutchinson and directed by John Glenn.
2011
January 14 - 29 -- Boise Little Theater presents Michael Cooney's "Cash on Delivery", directed by Kevin Kimsey. This fast paced British farce concerns a con artist who has duped the welfare authorities for years by claiming every type of benefit for the innumerable people he claims live at his address. This scam nets him tens of thousands tax free. Just when he decides to kill off many of the imaginary dole recipients because matters are getting a bit too risky, welfare investigators show up.
January 26 – February 19 --- Boise Contemporary Theater presents the Co-World Premiere of "Norway", written by Idaho native Samuel D. Hunter. Ten years ago in Lewiston, Idaho, Brent and Andy shared their secrets. Brent now drifts from one college town to the next, lecturing and playing reinventions of Beethoven's Pathétique, while Andy secretly follows him. The story and the music shift in time across a decade, deconstructing the clichés of a “coming out” story and revealing how the boys' relationship caused Andy’s father, Mark, to fulfill his own obsession. Hunter is a rising star in the American theater whose plays will see five different productions across the country this season, quite an accomplishment at just twenty-eight years old. Join us for this co-world premiere (with the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis), the first full production of a Hunter play in his home state.
January 21 - February 19 -- Knock'em Dead presents "Steel Magnolias".
February 16 – March 5 -- Company of Fools presents "Dead Man's Cell Phone", written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Denise Simone. That commonplace gadget we are advised to turn off when the lights in the theatre go down becomes a mysteriously powerful channel for transformation in this poetic fantasy.
February 18 -20 -- Opera Idaho presents Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly".
February 25 - March 12 -- Boise Little Theater presents "Leaving Iowa", written by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, directed by Andrea Haskett. Don Browning, a middle-aged writer, returns home and decides to finally take his father's ashes to his childhood home, as requested. But when Don discovers Grandma's house is now a grocery store, he begins traveling across Iowa searching for a proper resting place for his father.
March 11 -- Opera Idaho presents In Concert: Rachelle Durkin & Matt Morgan. At The Egyptian Theatre.
March 18 - April 16 -- Knock'em Dead presents "The Fantasticks".
April 6 - 30 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents the World Premiere of "The Velocity of Autumn" by Eric Coble. In this, Coble's sixtieth play, you’ll meet Lillian, a painter with a wicked sense of humor who is determined to spend her final years in the Brooklyn brownstone she calls home, despite her children’s best efforts to get her to move into an “A-One nursing home.
April 8 - 23 -- Boise Little Theater presents "I Never Sang for My Father" a drama by Robert Anderson, directed by Nancy Shankweiler. Gene is a widower with an elderly mother whom he loves and an eighty-year-old father, whom he has never loved, hard as he tried. Suddenly the mother dies, and Gene is faced with the responsibility of caring for his father.
May 6 - 8 -- Opera Idaho presents Donizetti’s "La Fille du Régiment". At The Egyptian Theatre.
May 13 - June 11 -- Knock'em Dead presents "Taming of the Shrew".
May 20 -June 4 -- Boise Little Theater presents "This Day and Age" a comedy by Nagle Jackson, directed by Randy Lord. Affluent, widowed and wonderfully politically incorrect, Marjorie is enjoying life sitting by her pool, having imaginary conversations with her late husband, Jack, when both her grown children come calling. Neither sibling knows the other has the same plan: to come live with poor old Mom.
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