Thursday, June 19, 2008

Roundup

  • June 20: Music Theatre of Idaho opens Chicago at 7:30 at the Nampa Civic Center. Chorus girl/murderesses Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly vie for the spotlight and the headlines. The show continues June 21 and 26-28 at 7:30, with a 1:30 matinee June 21.
  • June 20-21: The Gene Harris Jazz Festival starts out Friday and Saturday with concerts from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Gene Harris Bandshell in Julia Davis Park featuring local artists and jazz camp students. On Friday evening it continues with a concert by Roy Haynes and Birds of a Feather at 8:00 at the Morrison Center.
  • June 21: Idaho Dance Theatre holds its Summer Solstice event at 7:00 at the Breshear's home on 387 Knob Hill Court, Eagle. Live music by the Tracy Underwood Connection, with stilters and fire dancers performing at 10:00.
  • June 21 and 28: Daisy's Madhouse presents 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.
  • Now through June 22: The Boise Art Museum is displaying Marsden Hartley's modern artwork, much of which are semi-abstract pieces based on the American Southwest, and Andrea Merrell's installation Measure of Man, which includes her interpretations of 14th century Italian fresco murals.
  • Now through June 26: The 29th Annual Idaho Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition is held 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: 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 20, 23 and 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 21-22, and 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 19-20, 24-25 and 28-29 and July 3-4, 19-20 and 22-23. Times are 8:00 Tuesday-Saturday and 7:00 Sunday.
  • Now through Aug. 21: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. Show dates are June 19, 21, 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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