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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.

January 25 - February 18 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents "Gruesome Playground Injuries" by Rajiv Joseph. We meet eight-year-olds Kayleen and Doug in the nurse’s office of their elementary school. She has a stomachache and a penchant for “bad thoughts”, he has a head injury from riding his bike off the roof of the school. The powerful connection between these two people will endure many twists and turns with the accompanying bumps and bruises over the next three decades of their lives. A dark and beautiful gem about love, friendship, pain and healing.

February 3 - March 18 -- Prairie Dog Productions presents "Gnatman!". Directed by Larry Dennis, this musical melodrama parody is a treat for the whole family. Every Friday and Saturday evening, plus 4 Sunday matinees. Tickets available at the door or by calling (208) 336-7383.

February 15 -25 - Alley Repertory Theater presents "In The Next Room or the vibrator play" by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Buffie Main. Described as a "smart, delicate and very, very funny" by the New York Post, this play ponders marriage and intimacy and how electricity came along to fuse them together.
     Performances are at VAC, a 21+ venue.

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 - 25 -- Off Center Dance presents a full evening of dance, including new works by Artistic Director Kelli Brown, Katie Ponozzo, and Teresa Vaughn. Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets.

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 24 - March 3 -- Encore Theater Company and bluegrass band Chicken Dinner Road present "Cotton Patch Gospel", an upbeat, toe-tapping, down-home re-telling of the Greatest Story Ever Told.  Based out of the four volume “Cotton Patch Version of the Gospels” series written by Clarence Jordan, this musical, by Tom Key and Russel Treyz with music created by Harry Chapin, relocates the traditional story of Jesus to rural Georgia and in knee-slappin’ country/bluegrass style brings it to life.
    Tickets are available at Encore Theater Company.

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.

February 28 --  The College of Idaho Department of Theatre & Speech Arts presents "Kabuki Lady Macbeth", written by Karen Sunde and directed by C of I theatre professor Michael Hartwell.
     This is part of the C of I's Play Reading Series, performances in which the actors read the dialogue in the script without the elements of scenery, costume or lighting.
   The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Langroise Studio Theatre on the C of I Campus in Caldwell. There is a “pay what you wish” admission, with proceeds funding theatre department travel to the 2012 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival conference.
     For more information about the series, contact Joe Golden at jgolden@collegeofidaho.edu.

film February 29 --  The ArtsWest School for the Performing and Visual Arts Theater and Film Department presents a screening of "For Robbing the Dead (aka Redemption)", a movie by Tom and Courtney Russell.
     The film stars local actor John Freeman, with Margot Kidder ("Superman"), Barry Corbin ("Northern Exposure", "One Tree Hill"), Larry Thomas (Seinfeld's Soup Nazi), and David Stevens ("Punch Drunk Love", "Crow IV").
     The movie is based on the true frontier story of Henry Heath, a law officer in 1862 Salt Lake City who finds himself in the wrenching position of being responsible for the well being of a prisoner whom he despises - an impoverished French immigrant named Jean Baptiste, who is convicted of robbing the graves of the recently deceased.
     The film was produced by BYU, and while not specifically a children’s film, is 100% family-friendly.
     A Q&A with the cast and casting director, Catrine McGregor, will follow the screening. Seating is limited so reservations are recommended. Tickets are $25 and can be ordered at Artswestschool.org.
     The screening begins at 6:30pm, Wednesday, February 29 at Northgate Reel.

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 - 17 -- The College of Idaho Department of Theatre & Speech Arts presents "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" by Rachel Sheinkin, music and lyrics by William Finn. Directed by Joe Golden.

March 8 -10 -- The NNU Music Department presents the hit Broadway musical "Man of LaMancha" in the Brandt Center Swayne Auditorium.
     The play-within-a-play depicts poet/playwright Cervantes who invents the story of the mad knight Don Quixote to stall for time as he awaits trial for the Spanish Inquisition.  It is a story of hope,  transformation, and vision and features the song "To Dream the Impossible Dream".
     Directed by Rick Strader, the show features BJ Howard as Cervantes/Don Quixote and Devon Ellis as his faithful servant and sidekick Sancho Panza. Meridian junior Jackie Presnell plays Aldonza.
     Performances are 7:30 pm each evening. Tickets, $10 ($8, students and seniors), are available at the NNU Bookstore or through the Nampa Civic Center box office, or the NNU Music Department, 208-467-8413.
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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.

film March 15 - 18 -- The Sun Valley Film Festival presents cutting-edge independent films, premieres, and previews of new television and web series. For three days, the festival will screen films at the Sun Valley Opera House and the Magic Lantern Cinemas. Borrowing from the family-friendly spirit of Sun Valley, the festival includes kid's programming, the SVFF Audience Award, and everyone is invited to begin each day with a Kaffeeklatsch - a morning coffee series where filmmakers and industry experts engage the audience in a range of topics.
     In addition, the Festival presents two awards found at no other film festival - the One In A Million, which honors filmmakers who have made a standout film for under a million dollars, and the Vision Award, which recognizes producers and their filmmaking journeys. The public is invited to our March 18 awards presentation and closing ceremony.
     For more information send an e-mail to info@sunvalleyfilmfestival.org or visit www.sunvalleyfilmfestival.org.

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.”

March 19 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents their 5X5 Reading Series with "Damascus", written and performed by Andrew Weems. This new solo play has sweeping vistas, squalor, alcohol, zero topicality and at least one crime.
     The 5X5 Reading Series allows the audience, actors, directors and producers to experience the language of the playwright and assess each play’s potential for future production. Afterwards, the audience participates in a discussion with the actors, directors and sometimes the playwrights, to complete your evening.  Each reading is performed one night only!
     Curtain is at 7p. Tickets are available online www.BCTheater.org or by phone from the Box Office, 331-9224 x.205.

March 23 --  The College of Idaho Department of Theatre & Speech Arts presents "August: Osage County", written by Tracy Letts and directed by C of I admission counselor and theatre instructor Will Fowler.
     This is part of the C of I's Play Reading Series, performances in which the actors read the dialogue in the script without the elements of scenery, costume or lighting.
   The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Langroise Studio Theatre on the C of I Campus in Caldwell. There is a “pay what you wish” admission, with proceeds funding theatre department travel to the 2012 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival conference.
     For more information about the series, contact Joe Golden at jgolden@collegeofidaho.edu.

April 4 - 28 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents "Off the Record" by Lynn Allison. The hit of BCT's  2011 5X5 Reading Series makes it’s way to full production. The playwright, Lynn Allison, is known primarily for her work as an actor at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and at BCT. In her first effort as a playwright  we find a handsome, senior member of the United States Senate sitting at a table in a cinderblock room. Across from him sits the undercover cop he met in the airport bathroom. There is a tape recorder on the table and the rest is . . . not what you would expect.


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 7 -- Ballet Idaho presents "Cinderella", the classic fairy tale of a young woman’s journey from servant to princess. Cinderella combines the magic of fairy godmothers and spells with the true emotions of love and heartache.

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.

April 16 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents their 5X5 Reading Series with "Middletown" by Will Eno. Winner of the inaugural Horton Foote Award for Most Promising New Play of 2010, "Middletown" is a deeply moving and funny new play that explores the universe of a small American town.
     The 5X5 Reading Series allows the audience, actors, directors and producers to experience the language of the playwright and assess each play’s potential for future production. Afterwards, the audience participates in a discussion with the actors, directors and sometimes the playwrights, to complete your evening.  Each reading is performed one night only!
     Curtain is at 7p. Tickets are available online www.BCTheater.org or by phone from the Box Office, 331-9224 x.205.

April 17 -- The College of Idaho Department of Theatre & Speech Arts presents "The Water Engine", written by David Mamet and directed by C of I adjunct lighting designer Deborah Hartwell
     This is part of the C of I's Play Reading Series, performances in which the actors read the dialogue in the script without the elements of scenery, costume or lighting.
   The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Langroise Studio Theatre on the C of I Campus in Caldwell. There is a “pay what you wish” admission, with proceeds funding theatre department travel to the 2012 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival conference.
     For more information about the series, contact Joe Golden at jgolden@collegeofidaho.edu.

April 30 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents their 5X5 Reading Series with "A Bright New Boise" by Samuel D. Hunter. A regular contributor to BCT, Hunter's Obie Award winning play is set right here in the Treasure Valley. Prepare yourself: in the parking lot of a mega craft
store in Idaho, someone is summoning The Rapture. A heartbreakingly funny reckoning between a father and son will shatter your preconceptions about the sacred, the profane, and the secret lives of big-box retailers.
     The 5X5 Reading Series allows the audience, actors, directors and producers to experience the language of the playwright and assess each play’s potential for future production. Afterwards, the audience participates in a discussion with the actors, directors and sometimes the playwrights, to complete your evening.  Each reading is performed one night only!
     Curtain is at 7p. Tickets are available online www.BCTheater.org or by phone from the Box Office, 331-9224 x.205.

May 2 -- 13 -- Boise Contemporary Theater presents "Questions My Mother Can't Answer" by Andrea Caban. New York Innovative Theatre Award-winning writer/performer Andrea Caban is back with her sold-out 2010 FringeNYC hit. Much of the play was written while Andrea was in Boise performing in BCT’s production of "The Pavilion".
     In "Questions My Mother Can't Answer", Andrea returns to mortality and herself on a mind-body-soul healing mission after being hit by a New York City cab. She interviews eight “women-of-a-certain-age” including a sexy Moroccan ballroom dancer, a donations-only prostitute, and her Aunt Shirley. Hoping to redefine “navigating life” and to interpret the ticks of her biological clock, Andrea looks to these women for guidance and finds inspiration, laughter and hope.

May 9 -12 -- Boise Music Week presents Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The King and I". Set in the late 1800's, this is the story of English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son, Louis, and their life at the Royal Palace in Bangkok. Anna has been hired by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. While both Anna and the King struggle to retain their respective traditions and values, they grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another. Familiar songs include "Getting to Know You," and "I Whistle a Happy Tune".
     Directed by Larry Dennis, with Linda Berg as Vocal Director, Kay Mack as Choreographer and Dr. John Baldwin as Orchestra Conductor. The creative designers include Brent Karlberg, Set Designer, and Diane Kulin, Costume Design.
    This is a free event and is family friendly. Performances are at the Morrison Center. 7:30pm curtain each evening, with a 2pm matinee Saturday, May 12.

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 12 - 13 -- Now in its 6th year, the Boise Creative & Improvised Music Festival is taking on an exciting new multidimensional approach in a collision of experimental music and dramatic arts. This year’s program features a theatrical production written by Heidi Kraay and held at the Visual Arts Collective. Improvisational music, directed and loosely composed by the festival's founder and coordinator Krispen Hartung, will be integrated throughout the performance to reinforce the dramatic potential. Each evening will also headline performances by world class improvisational musicians before the play, after the play and during intermissions.
      Performances are at VAC, a 21+ venue.

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 1 - 30 -- Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

June 8 - July 27 -- Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap".

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.

July 6 - August 24 -- Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid", adapted by Oded Gross and Tracy Young.

August 3 - 26 -- Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale".

August 31 - September 29 -- Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents Michael Frayn's "Noises Off".

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