Theaters and Acting Groups in Boise

Alley Repertory Theater

Our Mission
Alley Repertory Theater (ART) is a professional, community-driven theater producing year-round new and established works for audiences throughout the Treasure Valley. ART is committed to providing professional opportunities to local and national performance-based artists and to presenting outstanding theater productions, discussion forums and development workshops that evoke critical reflection, entertain audiences and elevate individual and collective creativity.

Our Vision
To be a flagship theater in the Treasure Valley, producing professional and relevant works that engage and entertain audiences, encourage lively dialogues and critical reflection on current events, and elevate community creativity and innovation through the ART of theater.

http://www.alleyrep.org/

Boise Contemporary Theater

FOUNDED IN 1997, BCT creates, produces, and presents vibrant and DYNAMIC PROFESSIONAL theater that ILLUMINATES ENDURING THEMES while exploring contemporary issues and ideas.

http://www.bctheater.org/

Boise Little Theater

For over 60 years BLT has produced plays in all genres: contemporary and classical, comedy, drama and musicals.
BLT is an all volunteer non-profit organization with an unwavering dedication to amateur theatrical quality.
It is one of the longest running community theaters in America.

http://www.boiselittletheater.org/

Idaho Acotrs Collective

The Idaho Actors Collective, LLC
is made up of three parts:

1. We are a networking and training resource for adult actors.

2. We are a theater committed to presenting topical, cutting-edge, and socially relevant productions.

3. We have a Not-For-Profit education and outreach arm dedicated to the enrichment of Idaho and her children.

http://www.idahoactors.org/index.html

CAN-ACT

CAN-ACT, Caldwell and Nampa Alliance of Community Theatre, was started in 1991, when three actors, Toni Mendoza, Nancy Richards, and Marilyn Gunderson, decided to put the group together to provide an outlet for talented people in the area that didn't involve a drive to Boise.

http://www.can-act.org/

Company of Fools

MISSION STATEMENT
Company of Fools is a theatre company driven by the power of the theatrical experience to connect artist and audience. Whether through performing or teaching, we seek to engage, inspire, entertain and transform. We listen deeply - to our community and to ourselves as artists - and respond through a creative process that resonates with and contributes to the world in which we live.

OBJECTIVIES
Consistent with its mission statement, Company of Fools is committed to the following objectives:
• To connect a disconnected world – one play, one class, one conversation at a time.
• To explore and illuminate stories of the human heart connecting them to today’s audience.
• To cultivate and nurture its artists, including directors and designers, who are uniquely and specifically trained in the fools’ creative process, thereby creating a truly distinct voice in the American theatre.
• To advance theatre as a vital art form.
• To deepen and expand the artist/ audience connection.
• To build for the future by training potential young artists and celebrating the child’s creative voice through arts-in-education programming.

http://www.companyoffools.org/

Encore Theater Company

Encore Theatre Company, Etc. is a non-profit community theatre organization in South-West Idaho committed to enriching the community through the arts. Annual Christmas caroling and theatrical productions for youth to see and participate in are some of the things we do. Browse this website to learn more about Encore.

http://www.encoreetc.org/

Idaho Shakespeare Festival

The Festival's mission is to produce great theater, entertain and educate. To realize this mission, the Festival seeks to:
Develop an artistic home for theater artists that supports emerging actors, encourages new regional and national playwrights, promotes sustained employment opportunities for artists, and attracts the very best artistic staff;


Educate through a range of programs, including programs and tours for K-12 children and teachers, on-going adult education, interpretive programming, affiliations with universities and cultural organizations, as well as residencies and training opportunities for actors;


Illuminate human nature and our rich cultural heritage through a repertory that includes the plays of William Shakespeare, the richest and most complex in the English language, together with other works from a variety of dramatic periods and genres; and,


Promote cultural understanding through highlighting diverse traditions and supporting artists and audiences of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds.

http://www.idahoshakespeare.org/

NexStage Theatre

The NexStage Theatre, Sun Valley and Ketchum’s non-profit community theater, situated at 120 South Main Street in downtown Ketchum, is lit up with education programs, cabaret, cutting-edge theater, films and community events all year long. Well over 25,000 people attended functions at the nexStage in this past year. Since its beginnings in 1992, the nexStage Theatre has grown by offering diverse programs that reach a large cross-section of the residents of Blaine County: dramatic arts classes, the Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival, a Producing Partners program providing financial aid for local theater companies and underwriting community non-profit events and presentations. These programs, in addition to the regular schedule of plays and readings at the nexStage, all address the organization’s overarching mission to provide a flexible venue for hosting, supporting and producing the performing arts in addition to educational, multicultural, philanthropic and community events.

http://www.nexstagetheatre.org/

Knock 'Em Dead Productions

Knock 'em Dead (KED) began producing shows in 1984. At that time, the "season" was one to two shows a year in facilities rented by the partnership organization. This was truly a grass roots operation at inception. The sets were constructed in a neighborhood garage, and painted in the front yard; when completed, the set pieces were stored in another garage. A few days before the production was to begin, the cast and crew would gather for a car parade of set pieces to the rented facility. Then magically within the day, the set puzzle pieces were assembled in their rightful places on stage.

http://www.kedproductions.org/

Illustrious Onion Skin Players

The Illustrious Onion Skin Players perform an 1890's-style melodrama the first three full weekends of March.
This magical show makes you laugh so hard you will cry. Old-fashioned family entertainment complete with olio's and Can-Can girls.

Open auditions are held the first Monday and Tuesday of December every year.

http://illustriousonionskinplayers.org/

Praire Dog Playhouse

Mission Statement

To cultivate theatrical audiences, make the arts accessible to all community residents, and provide a venue for families to experience theatre together.

Goal

To bring quality, family oriented entertainment to the community at an affordable price.

http://www.pdplayhouse.com/

River City Entertainment

We're an experienced team of
Boise-based theater professionals.

We're veterans of more than 100 murder mysteries,
Wild West shows, comedy shows,
and corporate entertainment events.

We write, direct, and produce all our own shows.

We engage our audiences, working them into our shows.

We're "Theater that lets you play too!"

http://rivrcity.com/

Stage Coach Theatre

Stage Coach Theatre was established as a non-profit 501(C)3 corporation in 1981. The original Board of Directors consisted of five founding members. The main objectives of the theatre at that time were

1) to provide quality theatre to the community at a low cost,

2) to bring live theatre to communities that would otherwise not be exposed to live theatre, and

3) to use local actors and writers whenever possible and eventually to pay them.


http://stagecoachtheatre.com/

Starlight Mountain Theatre

Starlight Mountain Theatre is the culmination of a life-long dream of R. Ed Davis. I (Ed) spent seven years pursuing an M.F.A. Degree in Theatre and Directing, and dreamed of returning to Idaho , the home of my youth, to design and open a professional outdoor theatre. Everyone in life has a dream. “Opening a summer-stock theatre had always been mine.”

http://www.starlightmountaintheatre.com/

The Pavillion is playing at the Boise Contemporary Theatre. I've heard a lot of good things in my Theatre 101 class, anyone want to go see it sometime in the next couple weeks?