Thursday, June 26, 2008

Roundup

  • June 26: Last day of the 29th Annual Idaho Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition at the Student Union Gallery at Boise State University.
  • June 27: Meridian Youth Theater opens Androcles and the Lion at the Meridian High School auditorium. The play, about a servant who pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and later meets the lion in the arena, runs June 27-29 at 1:00 and 3:30 each day.
  • June 27-28: Boise State University Dancefest culminates in two evenings of Choreography Festival performances at 7:00 at the Morrison Center.
  • June 28: Closing night of Daisy's Madhouse's production of Psycho Beach Party at 7:30 at the Neurolux. Chicklet is a typical California teen who wants desperately to fit in with the local surfer gang, but she has multiple personalities, including a dominatrix who's plotting world domination, that make it hard to make friends.
  • June 28: The Boise Art Museum opens a new exhibit by illustrator, painter and sculptor Frederic Remington called Frederic Remington Makes Tracks: Adventures and Artistic Impressions.
  • June 28: Starlight Mountain Theatre opens Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. The show continues July 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 29 and Aug. 1, 4, 7, 13, 16, 19 and 22. Times are 8:00.
  • July 1: Company of Fools opens Violet, a coming of age story about a girl growing up in the Deep South during the early Civil Rights Movement who goes on a journey of self-discovery, at 7:00 at Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey. The play continues July 2-4, 8-9, 13, 17, 24 and 29 at 7:00, July 20 at 2:00 and Aug. 2 at 8:00.
  • July 5: Company of Fools opens Collected Stories, a tale about a short story writer and teacher and her hero-worshipping graduate student, at 8:00 at Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey. The play continues July 6, 10, 15, 20, 23 and 31 at 7:00, July 11 and 18 at 8:00 and July 27 at 2:00.
  • July 11: Stage Coach Theatre opens Greater Tuna at 8:15 at the theater at Orchard and Overland in the Hillcrest Shopping Center in Boise. This satirical comedy about small-town morals and mores stars two men in about 20 roles. The play continues July 12, 17-20 and 24-26. Times are 7:30 Thursdays, 8:15 Fridays and Saturdays and 2:00 Sundays.
  • July 11: Idaho Shakespeare Festival opens Into the Woods, a Stephen Sondheim musical about what happens after "happily ever after" in several classic fairy tales, at 8:00 at the amphitheater on Warm Springs. The play continues July 12-13, 15-16 and 24-26 and Aug. 7-8, 12-13, 16-17, 21-22, 26-27 and 30-31. Times are 8:00 Tuesday-Saturday and 7:00 Sunday.
  • July 12: Boise Art Museum opens an exhibit by photographer and sculptor Catherine Chalmers called American Cockroach. (You better believe I'll be going to this one.)
  • July 12: Starlight Mountain Theater opens Crazy for You, a musical about a stagestruck New York City playboy in a Nevada mining town, at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. The show continues July 16, 19, 21, 24 and 30 and Aug. 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 20 and 23. Times are 8:00.
  • July 12: Company of Fools opens Noises Off, a farce about a theater production gone haywire, with 17 false entrances, 73 flubbed lines, 46 miscues and a missing plate of sardines, at 8:00 at Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey. The play continues July 16, 22, 27 and 30 at 7:00, July 19, 25 and 26 and Aug. 1 at 8:00, and July 13 and Aug. 3 at 2:00.
  • July 17: Boise Little Theater opens The Pirates of Penzance Junior at 7:00 at the theater on Fort Street in Boise. The Gilbert & Sullivan musical about sentimental pirates, dim-witted young lovers and an eccentric major-general continues July 18-19 and 24-25 at 7:00 and July 20 and 26 at 7:00.
  • Now through July 17: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents the musical comedy Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. Show dates are June 26 and July 1, 3, 7, 10 and 17. Times are 8:00.
  • Now through July 18: The Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents All's Well that Ends Well at the amphitheater on Warm Springs. A romantic comedy about a woman determined to track down her husband in war-torn Europe. Show dates are June 26-27 and July 1-2, 5, and 17-18. Times are 8:00 Tuesday-Saturday and 7:00 Sunday.
  • Now through July 23: The Idaho Shakespeare Festival performs The Crucible, Arthur Miller's play about the Salem witch trials, at the amphitheater on Warm Springs. Dates are June 28-29 and July 3-4, 19-20 and 22-23. Times are 8:00 Tuesday-Saturday and 7:00 Sunday.
  • July 31: Climbing Tree Productions opens Boys' Life at 8:00 at the Visual Arts Collective on 3638 Osage Street, Garden City, near the Woman of Steel Gallery on Chinden. The show runs Aug. 1-2 at 9 p.m.
  • Now through Aug. 21: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. Show dates are June 27 and 30, July 4, 9, 15, 18, 22, 25, 28 and 31, and Aug. 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21. Times are 8:00.
  • Now through October: The Boise Art Museum is displaying Gerri Sayler's exhibit Ad Infinitum. It consists of more than 900 glistening strands of sculpted hot glue.

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