by KIVI | Aug 30, 2024 | Press
Managing Director Tiffany Eller and Artistic Director Chris Canfield talk to KIVI senior anchor, Roland Beres, discussing Cymbeline and how BBP got here. Recorded at The Bishops’ House on August 30,...
by Ben Kemper | Aug 22, 2024 | Press
Cymbeline is a hard show. Hard to stage, hard to parse, hard to summarize. I’ve long had a game of trying to sum up Shakespearean stories in their simplest essence; Cymbeline has always been “Plot Too Difficult to Explain.” That’s not to say it’s a bad play...
by KTVB | May 16, 2024 | Press
Managing Director Tiffany Eller and Artistic Director Chris Canfield talk to Idaho Today host, Mellisa Paul, discussing Macbeth at Surel’s Place in Garden City. Recorded at KTVB studio on May 16,...
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...
