Or: Half a Chance For the past year and a half salmon has become very important to me. I’ve traveled around Idaho telling stories about...

Or: Ghosts in Grey Cells In a radical departure from his first two Hercule Poirot mysteries (the flash but brittle Murder on the Orient...

Or: Luminary “It’s a complicated Russian novel/ Everyone has nine different names” So sings our introductory chorus to Natasha, Pierre,...

Or: The Try-Hards There’s no good way to sugarcoat a turd, (especially when that leaving is the size of couple of continents and been...

Or; The Bigger Crime Lynn Nottage is a playwright who knows how to work with silences. Her characters have a habit of holding forth; long...

Or: Middling Expectations Is the new Persuasion movie, directed by Carrie Cracknell*, a joyous edition to the Austen cinematic universe,...

Or: “The Show of My Dreams” Everyone has a song in their heart, some people have a musical. A driving need to create a life to create a...

Or: Come Crush A Cup of Wine In the tap room of the Mad Swede Brewing Company, two households, both alike in dignity, mingle in passion...

Or. Happy Arrivals and Dear Departures The film format suits Downton Abbey remarkably well, though its probably not the place for a first...

Or: Great Wheel Well over ten years ago, I was introduced to a folk opera, composed by the plaintively voiced, lyrically resplendent...

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...