Roundup

July

• July 6: Alley Repertory Theater presents Head by local playwright Oliver Russell Stoddard at 7:30 at the Visual Arts Collective behind the Woman of Steel Gallery on Chinden. The show is part of Alley Rep's Plays from the Alley series, in which local playwrights are offered the opportunity to produce their work and get feedback from the audience.
  
• July 10: Stage Coach Theatre opens Absence of a Cello, a comedy about the hilarious lengths a scientist goes to to land a job at a large corporation. The show runs July 10-11, 16-19 and 23-25 at 7:30 Thursdays, 8:15 Friday-Saturday and 2:00 Sunday in the Hillcrest Shopping Center.
  
• July 10: The Idaho Shakespeare Festival opens The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an interactive musical mystery in which the audience gets to decide who killed the title character. The show runs July 10-12, 16-17, 21-22, and 25-26 and Aug. 4-5, 8-9, 13-14, 18-19, 22-23 and 27-28 at 7:00 Sundays and 8:00 Tuesday-Saturday at the theater on Warm Springs in Boise.
• July 13: Alley Repertory Theater presents Catherine by local playwright June Daniels at 7:30 at the Visual Arts Collective behind the Woman of Steel Gallery on Chinden. The show is part of Alley Rep's Plays from the Alley series, in which local playwrights are offered the opportunity to produce their work and get feedback from the audience.
• July 16: Author Mitch Wieland will read from his latest novel, God's Dogs, at 7:30 at the Log Cabin Literary Center next to the Boise Public Library.
  
• July 18: Salsa Celtica, a Scottish group that performs salsa music with bagpipes, fiddles, brass and congas, performs at 7:00 at Hop Porter Park in Hailey.
• July 20: Alley Repertory Theater presents Inflection Point: A Timeless Love Story by local playwright Greg Hampikian at 7:30 at the Visual Arts Collective behind the Woman of Steel Gallery on Chinden. The show is part of Alley Rep's Plays from the Alley series, in which local playwrights are offered the opportunity to produce their work and get feedback from the audience.
• July 23: Boise Little Theater opens Annie, Junior -- an all-children production of the musical Annie, based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. The show runs at 7:30 July 23-25 and 30-31 and 2:00 July 26 and Aug. 1 at the theater on Fort Street.
  
• Now through July 24: The Idaho Shakespeare Festival presents The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare's tale of twin brothers who are reunited after 30 years, and the hijinks that ensue due to the mistaken identities. The show runs at 8:00 July 14-15, 18, and 23-24, and 7:00 July 19 at the theater on Warm Springs in Boise.
• July 27: Alley Repertory Theater presents Cocktails at the Fisher's by local playwright Kelly Broich at 7:30 at the Visual Arts Collective behind the Woman of Steel Gallery on Chinden. The show is part of Alley Rep's Plays from the Alley series, in which local playwrights are offered the opportunity to produce their work and get feedback from the audience.
• July 30: Music Theatre of Idaho presents Les Miserables, the musical about petty thief Jean Valjean, who becomes an honest man and the mayor of a town, is pursued relentlessly by Inspector Valjean, participates in an uprising and saves the life of a young man in love with Valjean's daughter. The show runs July 30, 31 and Aug. 1 at 7:30 and Aug. 1 at 1:30.
• July 31: The Idaho Shakespeare Festival opens Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's comedy about Sebastian and Viola, twins who are separated in a storm at sea, and the misplaced affections and mistaken intentions that ensue. The show runs July 31, Aug. 1-2, 6-7, 11-12, 15-16, 20-21, 25-26, and 29-30 at the theater on Warm Springs in Boise.
  
• Now through Aug. 1: Company of Fools presents 110 in the Shade, a musical about a drought-stricken community in the Western U.S. during the 1930s where residents learn to find their own truth and beauty by overcoming fears and misperceptions about one another. The show runs July 9, 14, 23 and 29 at 7:00, July 26 at 2:00 and July 10 and 17 and Aug. 1 at 8:00 at The Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey.
  
• Now through Aug. 2: Company of Fools presents Welcome Home Jenny Sutter, the story of a wounded Marine Sergeant, just returned from Iraq, who finds herself lost in the California desert but gets the homecoming she needs from a community there. The show runs July 11 and 25 at 8:00, July 16, 19, 22, 28, 31 and Aug. 2 at 7:00, and July 12 at 2:00 atthe Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey.
  
• Now through Aug. 2: Company of Fools presents Steel Magnolias, the story of the lives of six women whose lives intersect in a beauty salon in rural Louisiana. The show runs July 7, 8, 12, 15, 26 and 30 at 7:00, July 19 and Aug. 2 at 2:00, and July 18 and 24 at 8:00 at The Liberty Theatre on Main Street in Hailey.
  
• Now through Aug. 14: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents The Boyfriend, a musical romantic comedy about an heiress who poses as a secretary and falls in love with a delivery boy who happens to be the missing son of the wealthy Lord Brockhurst. The show runs at 8:00 July 6, 9, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 and 30, and Aug. 5, 8, 11 and 14 at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley.
  
• Now through Aug. 15: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin's musical about Annie Oakley and her romance with the trick shooter in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The show runs at 8:00 July 7, 10, 13, 16, 22, 25, 28 and 31, and Aug. 3, 6, 12 and 15 at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley.
• Now through Aug. 22: Starlight Mountain Theatre presents Footloose: The Musical, based on the hit movie from 1984. The show runs July 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23 and 29 and Aug. 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 18, 20 and 22 at 8:00 at Starlight Amphitheater in Garden Valley.
• Now through Aug. 28: Glenns Ferry Theatre presents Let Him Sleep 'til it's Time for His Funeral July 10, 17, 24 and 31 and Aug. 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 7:45 (dinner starts at 6:30) at 128 E. Idaho Ave. in Glenns Ferry.
• Now through Aug. 29: Glenns Ferry Theatre presents Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch July 11, 18, and 25 and Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 7:45 (dinner starts at 6:30) at 128 E. Idaho Ave. in Glenns Ferry.
• Now through Sept. 20: Boise Art Museum opens an exhibit called Devorah Sperber: Threads of Perception. Sperber arranges spools of colored thread in such a way that, when viewed through an optical device, recreates a famous work of art.
• Now through Oct. 11: Tying It Together, an exhibition of drawings by Garden Valley artist James Castle, opens at the Boise Art Museum along with a short documentary about Castle, who was born deaf, never learned to read and write, and prefers to make his drawings on discarded scraps of paper and cardboard.
• Now through Nov. 8: Boise Art Museum opens an exhibition of sculpture by Ann Weber called Corrugated. The pieces are made from cardboard, are woven into giant gourd-like spires, and are up to 16 feet tall.
• Now through Nov. 15: Boise Art Museum presents Kid Stuff, an exhibit of art geared toward children by artists Deborah Barrett, Alexander Calder, Michael Corney, Benjamin Jones, Marianne Kolb, Marilyn Lanfear, David Gillhooley, Marilyn Lysohir, Renda Palmer and others.