Theater

How do you bring Amelia Earhart and a haunted radio to kids in all parts of Idaho? Plus teach them about trust and taking chances, with a little bit of history thrown in? Theater for Youth is doing exactly that, with a traveling production for 100,000 K-5 students, including refugees from Africa, Mexico, and Columbia - many of whom are watching their very first theater production.

There’s so much that is new this year at Silver Sage Elementary School in the West Ada School District.

A new play at the Morrison Center in Boise explores some of the themes that came out of the Salem Witch trials in puritan New England in 1691.

When director Jamie Nebeker was asked to consider mounting Afflicted: Daughters of Salem at the Danny Peterson Theater in the Morrison Center of Boise State, she was struck by how a story rooted in the Salem Witch trials of the 17th century had such contemporary relevance.

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.

When the pandemic sidelined the Sun Valley Shakespeare in the Park troupe, the creative force behind the annual event were afraid that it might “fizzle out.”

What’s the most unique take on the Faustian legend? How about an all-singing, all-dancing musical featuring a man-eating plant? When the soon-to-be-legendary team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (they would go on to pen Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and other Oscar winners), chose a little-known 1960 black-and-white film as the basis of a musical, they would set a new standard for tongue-in-cheek theater.

For the company of Much Ado About Nothing, the 2022 summer season opener at Idaho Shakespeare and the festival's first full season in three years, returning to the Boise amphitheater is much more than a homecoming.

Theater kids rejoice: there’s a new program in Idaho that could send you to Broadway.

Alley Repertory Theater’s artistic director Buffie Main knew that reemerging from 20 months of going dark due to the pandemic, she had to do something special.