Friday, August 1, 2008

Roundup

  • Aug. 2: Closing night of Company of Fools' production of 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 8:00 at Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey.
  • Aug. 3: Closing matinee of Company of Fools' production of 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 2:00 at Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey.
  • Aug. 7: Encore Theatre Co. opens Once Upon a Mattress, a musical comedy based on the story of the princess and the pea, at the Northwest Nazarene University Brandt Center in Nampa. The show continues Aug. 8-9. Show times are 7:30 each day, with a 2:30 matinee Aug. 9.
  • Now through Aug. 9: Climbing Tree Productions presents Boys' Life Aug. 1-2 at 9 p.m. at the Visual Arts Collective on 3638 Osage Street, Garden City, near the Woman of Steel Gallery on Chinden and Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. at Neurolux in downtown Boise.
  • Now through Aug. 21: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. Show dates are Aug. 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21. Times are 8:00.
  • Now through Aug. 22: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. Show dates are Aug. 4, 7, 13, 16, 19 and 22. Times are 8:00.
  • Now through Aug. 23: Starlight Mountain Theater presents Crazy for You, a musical about a stagestruck New York City playboy in a Nevada mining town, at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. Show dates are Aug. 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 20 and 23. Times are 8:00.
  • Now through Aug. 24: The Boise Art Museum hosts an exhibit by illustrator, painter and sculptor Frederic Remington called Frederic Remington Makes Tracks: Adventures and Artistic Impressions.
  • Now through Aug. 29: The Idaho Shakespeare Festival produces Macbeth, a tragedy in which Shakespeare's Scottish anti-hero lusts after power and ultimately commits regicide, at 8:00 at the amphitheater on Warm Springs in Boise. Show dates are Aug. 2-3, 5-6, 9-10, 14-15, 19-20, 23-24 and 28-29. Times are 8:00 Tuesday-Saturday and 7:00 Sunday.
  • Aug. 29: Stage Coach Theatre opens Kitchen Witches, a comedy about two cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years who are forced by circumstance to share a cooking show produced by the long-suffering son of one of the women. It's all he can do to rein them in when the insults and the food start flying. The show continues Aug. 30 and Sept. 4-7 and 11-13 at the theater on Orchard and Overland in the Hillcrest Shopping Center in Boise. Times are 7:30 Thursdays, 8:15 Fridays and Saturdays and 2:00 Sundays.
  • Now through Aug. 29: Bogus Creek Outfitters is hosting a Western action adventure melodrama, The Jerseys Done It! Show dates are Aug. 8, 15, 22 and 29.
  • Aug. 29: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents Let's Murder Marsha, a comedy about a housewife who becomes convinced her husband is plotting to murder her and hatches a plan to thwart him, at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. The show continues Aug. 30 and Sept. 1, 5-6 and 12-13. Times are 7:30 Fridays and Saturdays and 6:30 Monday.
  • Aug. 30: The Boise Art Museum opens Upstream Fly Fishing in the American West, an exhibit of photographs by Charles Lindsay.
  • Now through Aug. 31: Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents 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 in Boise. Show dates are Aug. 7-8, 12-13, 16-17, 21-22, 26-27 and 30-31. Times are 8:00 Tuesday-Saturday and 7:00 Sunday.
  • Now through Sept. 14: The Boise Art Museum hosts Ties of Protection and Safe Keeping, an interactive braid sculpture by Oregon artist MK Guth. Woven into the sculpture are ribbons on which hundreds of people have written their answer to the question, "What is worth protecting?"
  • 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.
  • Now through Nov. 9: Boise Art Museum hosts an exhibit by photographer and sculptor Catherine Chalmers called American Cockroach.

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