Roundup

July

• 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 in Boise. 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 11: CAN-ACT opens Same Time, Next Year, a comedy about a man and a woman, both of whom are married, who meet by chance one night and have an affair, then agree to meet again the same weekend next year, and the year after that.... The play continues July 12 and 17-19 at the theatre at 603 Everett St., Caldwell. Times are 8:00 Fridays and Saturdays, 7:00 Thursday and 2:00 Saturday July 19.
• 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 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 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.
• July 17: Closing night of Starlight Mountain Theatre's production of the musical comedy Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. Show starts at 8:00.
• July 17: The Boise Art Museum opens 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?"
• July 17-18: Closing weekend of The Idaho Shakespeare Festival's production of All's Well that Ends Well at the amphitheater on Warm Springs in Boise. A romantic comedy about a woman determined to track down her husband in war-torn Europe. Times are 8:00.
• 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 in Boise. Dates are July 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. at the Visual Arts Collective and Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. at Neurolux in downtown Boise.
• Now through July 31: Company of Fools presents 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. Show dates are July 11 and 18 at 8:00, July 15, 20, 23 and 31 at 7:00, and July 27 at 2:00.
• Now through Aug. 2: Company of Fools presents 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 Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey. Show dates are July 13, 17, 24 and 29 at 7:00, July 20 at 2:00 and Aug. 2 at 8:00.
• Now through Aug. 21: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley. Show dates are July 15, 18, 22, 25, 28 and 31, and 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 July 11, 14, 23, 26 and 29 and Aug. 1, 4, 7, 13, 16, 19 and 22. 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: Bogus Creek Outfitters is hosting a Western action adventure melodrama, The Jerseys Done It! Show dates are July 11 and 25 and Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29.

August

• Aug. 1: The Idaho Shakespeare Festival opens 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. The play continues 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. 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.