by Julie Sarasqueta - From Boise | Nov 14, 2023 | Press
Back in 1864, Boise was barely a blip on the map. And yet it had theater: The Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman reported that the Idaho Saloon had been converted to accommodate traveling stage performers. When visiting actors failed to travel to Boise in numbers great enough...
by Ben Kemper | Apr 4, 2023 | Press
There has been a particular delight in setting up this “Folk Hamlet.” Spending the past month readying for tonight’s (yes, tonight’s!) performance for you (yes, you, stranger). We have been gathering tinder, hewing logs that will burn, and rolling the stones that will...
by Margaret Carmel - BoiseDev Sr. Reporter | Aug 16, 2022 | Press
When Chris Canfield saw Shakespeare at the Globe theatre in London, he knew some of it had to come home to Idaho with him. He was awestruck by the simplicity of the performance of Macbeth, even if it was on one of the world’s most famous stages. There were no...
by Nick Danlag - Boise Weekly | Jul 21, 2022 | Press
As a young child, Taylor Hawker would run up to the altar during sermons and mimic the priest. The churchgoers loved it and Hawker’s mom thought he would become a priest one day. But, really, the young boy just loved having a “captive audience” to perform in front of....
by Ben Kemper | Mar 27, 2022 | Press
In the tap room of the Mad Swede Brewing Company, two households, both alike in dignity, mingle in passion and laughter. The Boise Bard Players’ neat, compactly staged Romeo and Juliet is delightful and honest, not at all a paint-by-numbers tragedy but something...
by Will Hudson - Boise Theater Frequency | Aug 10, 2021 | Press
I finally got to see the Boise Bard Players’ production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and wow, it was really, really good! Seriously, check it out this weekend if you can, because you’ll not have seen this story this way before. The story is probably fairly...
