Theater boise

2010


November 19 - December 18 -- Knock'em Dead presents "A Christmas Carol", the beloved holiday classic tale by Charles Dickens.  When visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge slowly begins to realize the need to change his miserly ways.  Share a Victorian Christmas with Scrooge, Marley, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim.   Dinner at 6:15 pm; show at 8 pm on Fridays and Saturdays.  Dinner/Show tickets must be purchased at www.kedproductions.org  at least 1 day in advance.   Thursday shows at 7 pm.   Performances run Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from November 19 through December 18 (excluding Thanksgiving night).  For Dinner menu and all ticket prices visit Knock 'em Dead's website.

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 4 -- Encore Theatre presents "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever".  Don't miss out on the story of a young mother who struggles to put on the annual Christmas pageant and is faced with casting the Herdmans (all 6 of them!) who just may be the worst kids in the history of the world!  And just when the congregation is sure that this will be the worst Christmas pageant ever - they learn a lesson in tolerance and love as the Herdmans share their interpretation of the Christmas story.  Fun and mayhem ensue with the Herdman kids as they journey to learn the true meaning of Christmas!
         Performances are 7:30 p.m. Nov 26 - 27 and Dec 3 - 4 at the Little Theater of NNU with matinee performances at 2:00 pm on both Saturdays.

November 26 - December 18 -- 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.

November 26 - December 18 -- Stage Coach Theatre presents "A Christmas Twist", a Christmas comedy  written by The Illegitimate Players and directed by Kim Sherman-Labrum.   Take the characters from A Christmas Carol,blend in some Oliver Twist and Little Orphan Annie and mix in current pop culture and let simmer for a show Mel Brooks would love.

November 26 - January 8, 2011 -- Prairie Dog Playhouse presents the musical melodrama parody "Larry Potter, It's a Wonderful Santa's Stones". For reservations call  336-7383 or by email iveseenelvis@yahoo.com!

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 3 - 18 --  Daisy’s Madhouse presents Jeff Goode’s irreverent holiday alternative, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues! Directed by Jennifer Dunn, this dark Christmas comedy sheds new light on Santa and his eight reindeer.  Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment.  As mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges, which seems to implicate everyone from the littlest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer and clearer...and murkier and murkier.  
All shows begin at 8pm. Tickets are $10 at the door in $8 at  www.daisysmadhouse.org.

December 4 - 5 --  Opera Idaho presents Menotti’s "Amahl and the Night Visitors". Performances at The Egyptian Theatre.

December 13 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents a stage reading of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal", read by Joe Conley Golden, Christina Lang and Tom Willmorth. 7pm curtain.

December 14 – 31 -- Company of Fools presents the farce "Moonlight & Magnolias". Written by Ron Hutchinson and directed by John Glenn.

December 15 - 25 -- Welsh-Garcia Productions presents "SEX: aka Wieners and Boobs". Directed by Nick Garcia. Shows are at VAC, 3638 Osage, Garden City. Dates are December  15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, and 25. Doors at 7p, curtain at 8p, except Christmas evening curtain at 11p. Tickets are $12 at the door or in advance at Brown Paper Tickets.

December 17 - 24 -- Nexstage in Sun Valley presents "A Christmas Carol: the Musical", a co-production with Laughing Stock Theatre.

December 19 - A reading of "A Christmas Carol" is presented by The Family Reading Series of the Morrison Center Arts Education. Show starts at 2:00pm. For tickets call 429-1609 or visit the Morrison Center Box Office. For information call Director Carole Whiteleather, 426-1034.

December 21 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents a reading of Samantha Silva’s screenplay "Dickens".  Directed by Michael Hoffman with Idaho Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Charlie Fee reading the role of Charles Dickens, Silva's "Dickens" is a part true, mostly imagined tale of how The Christmas Carol came to be.
     This event is a benefit for Boise Contemporary Theater.  If you buy your ticket before December 10, 2010 you will be invited to a pre-event at the theater with screenwriter Samantha Silva.
      Tuesday December 21 @ 7pm. Tickets are $50 and available online at BCTheater.org  or by calling BCT at 331-9224 ext. 205.

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.

February 27 - A stage reading of "The Emperor's New Clothes" is presented by The Family Reading Series of the Morrison Center Arts Education. The show begins at 2:00 pm. For tickets call 429-1609 or visit the Morrison Center Box Office. For information call Director Carole Whiteleather, 426-1034.

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".

March 24 - 27 -- Boise State Theater Arts presents the Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella". The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale.

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.

April 21 - 24 -- Boise State Theater Arts presents "Champagne Breakfast", an original full length play by Boise State Theater Arts major, Evan Sesek. Directed by Mike Baltzell.

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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