A new play by Dana Smith Or: Brilliant Absence Curving like a double helix, Dana Smith’s Big Bang Playground brings together two separate...

Or: Disintegrate Regenerate Way back in the before times, uncounted years ago in 2019 I had the distinct delight of attending Jodeen...

Or: Naked and Afraid Heroes of the Fourth Turning, the prickly wonder by Will Arbery has come to BCT’s 5x5 reading series, and for its...

From the BCT BIPOC Festival Or: All American Hero Jeanne Sakata’s biography of Gordon Hirabayashi (Ryun Yu) is a rich portrait of a man...

Or: Things that Haunt Us On the summer height of Bogus Basin, under a brilliant, fiery sunset Boise Contemporary Theater brought us the...

Or: It Takes a Village Ever wonder what it was like to be a teenager in the middle ages? Do you then immediately shudder with repulsion...

A new play by Selina Fillinger Or: Death and Honey “You Hep Cats want to know how the world ends?” Always an intriguing way to start a...

Or: Weeping Heaven and Broken Earth When we first meet the Widow Dou Yi her hands are filled with life. Jessica Ko solicits us, before...

Or: Desi, You Have Some Explaining To Do Writer and director Aaron Sorkin invites us onto a fraught week on the set of I Love Lucy and...

Or; Finally, to be in The Room Where It Happens Way back in the abysm of time (August) I thought I was making a bitter mistake when I...

Or: You can’t take Belfast out of the Boy Kenneth Branagh is hoiking us on a trip down memory lane. The lane in question is his childhood...

Or: The New Yorker, The Movie The position of critic (if you will forgive the presumption on my part, dear reader) hinges not on the...

Or: And A Rock Feels No Pain Lauren Gunderson, a playwright famed for the tearfully earnest biographies of ideas, sweeps us into smaller,...

Or: Perfect Harmony Trim and gorgeous, well plotted and its characters finely etched, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a...

A new play by Alexandra Shields Or: Life Out of the Fast Lane “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” There...

Or: Palm to Palm Now this is what we should have been doing all along. The National Theater of Britain rather than try to put together a...

Or: So You Want to Play Games? A stately English manner house. A distinguished writer with a flair for the dramatic. Wife and servants...

A new play by Daniel K. Isaac. Or: Bridge of Sparrows What endures? Through war and diaspora and the press of ages, what can a soul turn...

Or: Once on this Island After more than a year without the movies, ones first trip back to the theater ought to be an exemplary specimen...

A new play by Bill Cain Or: What Is Essential It’s been much remarked, to the point of hateful absurdity, that Shakespeare wrote Lear in...