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November 18 - December 17 -- Knock 'em Dead presents "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, swear, and hit little kids. So no one is prepared when this family invades church one Sunday and decide to take over the annual Christmas pageant. The Herdmans have never heard the Christmas story before. Their interpretation of the tale has a lot of people up in arms. But it will make this year’s pageant the most unusual anyone has seen and, just possibly, the best one ever.

November 18 - January 7 -- Prairie Dog Playhouse presents "Scrooge, Older but Miser".

November 22 - December 17 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents "A Permanent Image" by Samuel D. Hunter, an Obie Award winning playwright and Idaho native.
      Back home for the first time in years for their father's funeral, Bo and Ally begin to fear for their mother Carol's sanity after discovering that she has painted everything inside the house white. But through the course of a few bottles of cheap liquor, Bo and Ally learn more about what has gone on in the house over the last fifteen years, and soon discover that Carol has some bigger plans that have less to do with insanity than they have to do with home movies, the big bang, and cosmic mediocrity.

November 25 - December 17 -- Boise Little Theater presents "A Candle in the Window", by L. Don Swartz, directed by Cheryl Blauer.  A small group of weary travelers discover the power of the season while trapped in a lonely train station on Christmas Eve.

December 2 - 17 -- The Empty Boat Theatre presents Dwayne Blackaller's "The Acheri: An Experience in Terror". This play/experience invites you to find out firsthand what horrific thing is happening outside the doors of an abandoned daycare in Victor, Idaho.
     Performances are at 510 Main, Boise. For tickets and more information visit their website  Suitable for all audiences

December 14 - 30 -- Company of Fools presents "It's a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play" by Joe Landry. The setting is Christmas Eve 1946 at station WCOF, where several talented radio players bring you all the characters (yes, all of them!) in It's a Wonderful Life, plus commercials, sound effects, and music - an engaging and memorable way to experience anew the powerful story of George Bailey, "the richest man in town."

December 18 -- Family Reading Series presents the stage reading of "A Christmas Carol". Directed by Carole Whiteleather this is Charles Dickens' timeless tale of old Ebenezer Scrooge. Recommended for children of all ages (3 to 103!) Come Hear A Play!
     2:00 pm & 4:00 pm  at the Morrison Center Recital Hall. $7 ticket.

December 19 -21 -- Daisy's Madhouse presents "The Eight: Reindeer Monologues", Jeff Goode's dark Christmas comedy. 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 North Pole, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges.
  Performances are at Idaho Outdoor Association, 3401 Brazil, Boise, Idaho.





2012

January 12 -13 -- Company of Fools, back by popular demand, presents Chicago's legendary comedy theatre company The Second City at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey.
     2012 marks the ninth consecutive year that Company of Fools has brought the world-renowned comedy troupe to the Wood River Valley. As always, The Second City on Tour features the next generation of comic greats performing a diverse array of sketches and songs, as well as off-the-cuff improvisation that can provide completely unexpected comic brilliance. From the battle of the sexes to the battles at the voting booth, The Second City provides a hilarious and insightful look into contemporary American culture.
     No topic or subject matter is off-limits for The Second City. If your parents asked you not to speak about it at the dinner table, chances are, it will be made fun of in an evening with The Second City.

January 13 - 28 -- Boise Little Theater presents "Out of Order" a farce by Ray Cooney, directed by Kevin Kimsey. When Richard Willey, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong.

January 13 - 28 -- Stage Coach Theatre presents "Unnecessary Farce" by Paul Slade Smith and directed by Ted Pendleton. Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go! In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there’s some confusion as to who’s in which room, who’s being videotaped, who’s taken the money, who’s hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.
     Suggestive Situations.

January 20 - February 18 -- Knock 'em Dead presents "Pride and Prejudice". Is there a more lasting romantic comedy than the story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy? This classic story set in the Regency era is brought to the stage in an adaptation that leaves out nothing and remains refreshingly fast paced and entertaining. Finding a husband among unsuitable suitors consumes Elizabeth’s mother and sisters, but she remains independent until she meets Mr. Darcy. Set in a society where snubs and deceit abound, they match both pride and prejudice to reach a happy ending.

February 15 - March 2 -- Company of Fools presents "God of Carnage" by Yasmine Reza. Winner of the 2009 Tony Award. What happens when two sets of parents meet up to discuss the unruly behavior of their children?  A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly?  Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime? Fast, furious and very, very funny!

February 17 - 19 -- Opera Idaho presents Puccini’s "La bohème". Sung in English, at The Egyptian Theatre.

February 24 - March 10 -- Boise Little Theater presents "An Evening of One Acts". Directed by Wendy Koeppl, this evening features "A Candle on the Table" by Patricia Clapp; "Lost" by Mary Louise Wilson; and "The Traveling Sisters" by John Kirkpatrick.
     Suitable for all audiences.

February 24 - 26 --  BSU Theatre Art Department presents Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe". Politics and aristocracy meet the fairies of Fairyland in Gilbert and Sullivan’s hilarious comedy Iolanthe. Widely considered one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best works, Iolanthe is a zany ride to a place where romance, politics, money and magic meet – in ways only Gilbert and Sullivan could imagine!
     Performances are at the Special Events Center. Free tickets for full-time students at BSU, and other tickets available online at idahotickets.com.

February 26 --  Boise Contemporary Theater presents it's Children's Reading Series, "A New Play" by Dano Madden.
     Arie and Marcus are trapped in the old locker room of Foothills Junior High. They can hear the sounds of the basketball games they should be playing, but escape from this abandoned space seems impossible. Can their friendship survive the junior high school pecking order that got them into this mess? Will an unexpected visit from an Iraqi girl set them free? A play about leaving childhood behind and finding friendship and stories in an unexpected place.

March 2 - 17 -- Stage Coach Theatre presents the romantic comedy "Skin Deep" by Jon Lonoff, directed by Joseph Wright. Lonely-heart Maureen Mulligan gives in to one last shot at romance:  a blind date arranged by her beautiful sister, Sheila.
     Suitable for all audiences.

March 8 - April 15 -- BSU Theatre Art Department presents William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead". Presented on alternating nights, "Hamlet" is the story of the Prince of Denmark who struggles to revenge his father's murder, while "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" follows two minor characters from the Hamlet story in a brilliant absurdist comedy. With the shows on rotating evenings you can see and compare the two while each is fresh in your mind.
     Performances are at the Danny Peterson Theater.

March 11 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents it's Children's Reading Series, "Moby Dick" adapted by Mark Rosenwinkel from the novel by Herman Melville.
     Ishmael, a young sailor in search of adventure, first mate, Stubb, and Queequeg, the mystical Polynesian harpooner (“he’s the son of a cannibal king, they say.”), set off aboard the Pequod, a whaling ship piloted by the brooding captain Ahab.  As they sail deeper into unknown waters, they discover the real reason for their quest — to hunt Moby Dick, that legendary white whale who long ago devoured the captain’s leg.  Moby Dick is a rollicking tale of adventure and obsession, told with extraordinary joy and theatricality.

March 16 - April 14 -- Knock 'em Dead presents "Xanadu". This hilarious new musical follows the beautiful Kira, who travels to earth to inspire a struggling artist named Sonny, as she helps this aspiring painter to find his voice, discover true love and build the world’s first roller disco (not necessarily in that order). A musical adventure on roller skates, Xanadu is an outlandishly enjoyable spoof of the 1980 cult movie classic starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly. Get ready for disco balls, rainbows and a score that features such pop-rock hits as “Magic,” “Evil Woman” and “Suddenly.”

April 6 - 21 -- Boise Little Theater presents the drama "Rabbit Hole" by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Mike Mullens. This winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize is an intensely emotional examination of grief, a perceptive and poignant study in the day-to-day aches of bereavement.

April 13 - 15 -- Opera Idaho presents Douglas Moore’s "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at The Egyptian Theatre.

April 13 - 28 -- Stage Coach Theatre presents the drama "The Sweetest Swing in Baseball" by Rebecca Gilman, directed by Liam Tain. During a gallery show, artist Dana Fielding secludes herself, belting down glasses of wine to deal with the rejection by the art critics and her boyfriend. It’s all too much. Her attempted suicide lands her in a mental institution. There, she finds safety amid an unlikely coterie: a psychopath, a gay guy, two sympathetic therapists. About to be booted back into the real world because her insurance won’t pay for her care, she devises a ploy to stay put – she becomes talented, troubled Daryl Strawberry, the bad boy of baseball from 1983 to 1999.      
     Strong language and situations, not recommended for younger audience members.

May 11 - June 9 -- Knock 'em Dead presents "Not Now, Darling". This hilarious Ray Cooney farce set box-office records in Paris, London and New York. This is the tale of two unlikely partners in a fur salon, Bodley the philanderer and Crouch the guileless innocent. The action of the play involves girlfriends, suspicious husbands and wives, intrigue, scantily clad girls clapped hurriedly into closets, the usual mistaken identities and non-stop laughter. It all becomes part of the hilarious doings, as everything somehow manages to work out as it should.

May 18 - June 2 -- Boise Little Theater presents "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", by William Gleason, directed by Brad Ooley. The world's most unusual criminologist, Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (a role originally created by Peter Sellers) fights for his life and for the future of all mankind in the most bizarre and dangerous caper of his brilliantly successful and utterly clumsy career.

May 25 - June 9 -- Stage Coach Theatre presents "Cockeyed, a comedy by William Missouri Downs and directed by Jeff Thomson. Phil, an average nice guy, is madly in love with the beautiful Sophia. The only problem is that she’s unaware of his existence. He tries to introduce himself but she looks right through him. When Phil discovers Sophia has a glass eye, he thinks that might be the problem, but soon realizes that she really can’t see him. Perhaps he is caught in a philosophical hyperspace or dualistic reality or perhaps beautiful women are just unaware of nice guys. Armed only with a B.A. in philosophy, Phil sets out to prove his existence and win Sophia’s heart.
     Mild language and suggestive situations.

June 29 - July 1 -- Opera Idaho presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "Oklahoma in Concert" at the Idaho Botanical Garden.

July 6 - 21 -- Stage Coach Theatre presents "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", a comedy by Neil Simon and directed by Becky Kimsey. Inspired by the playwright’s youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s "Your Show of Shows", a harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman “Max Prince”.
      Very strong language, not recommended for younger audiences.

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