Boise Contemporary Theater

Thanksgiving may have ended, but over at the Boise Contemporary Theater they're still celebrating the holiday, though not in the way you may think. It's with their new production of "The Thanksgiving Play."

Next week, the Boise Contemporary Theater will be bringing playwrights, actors and directors together for the third annual BIPOC Playwrights Festival.

Next week the Boise Contemporary Theater will begin previews for their latest production, The Christians. A play about a pastor, a congregation and one sermon that will challenge the faith of its church.

"Tiny Beautiful Things" is one of the most anticipated productions in recent memory for Boise Contemporary Theater. And the production’s director, Donna Jean Fogel and Marissa Price who plays Sugar, the anonymous advice columnist at the center of the play, visit with Morning Edition host George Prentice to preview BCT’s soon-to-open show.

“Tiny Beautiful Things” was already a runaway bestseller in 2012, and when it was adapted into a play, the story dug even deeper to become a “sustained theatrical exercise in empathy,” wrote Jesse Green of The New York Times when the drama opened in New York in 2017.

To kick off its 25th season, Bose Contemporary Theater will showcase a production that has been years in the making. It’s also quite personal.

The six day long BIPOC Playwrights Festival is back with new performances and stories.

Laugh, cry, and sing along with one of the darkest parts of Boise's history

One of the darkest chapters in Boise’s history – scores of arrests targeting what some called Boise’s “homosexual underground” – is the subject matter of a new stage production, about to make its world premiere at Boise Contemporary Theater.

The so-called "Christmas Truce of 1914" is nearly mythological. But indeed, on Christmas Day, 1914 a German soldier stepped out into what was known as “No Man’s Land,” the narrow patch of battlefield between the many trenches, holding opposing troops, and began to sign “Stille Nacht (Silent Night).”