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Lungs at Homegrown Theater
Or: They May Not Mean To, But They Do* In Jessica Nebeker's white alley-style set, we find ourselves choked with plastic. The walls...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Eastland, a musical
Or: Up from the River She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more. — Twelfth...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20254 min read
All-One!: The Dr. Bronner Play
Or: Unity and Alterity What I like best about Beth Hyland’s plays is her sense of an ending. There is a lot to recommend her as a...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Every Brilliant Thing at Boise Contemporary Theater
Or: Lifeline “The list started after her first attempt.” Our narrator (Christian Libonati) recounts how, at seven years of age, he was...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Like Love
Or: Two Toothbrushes Meet Harper (producer and screenwriter Lilly Yasuda), your anti-romantic comedy heroine; sharp, smart, taking no...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20255 min read
The Play That Goes Wrong
Or: Murphy’s Law and Order What makes comedy? I could raise a cry of the creeping codger within me to talk about reveling in rude...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20254 min read
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City
Or: The Woman Behind the Curtain Ah yes. A tale as old as time. Girl meets boy, boy meets girl, while he’s standing vigil over his dying...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20252 min read
Birds of Prey
Or: “Hair Tie?” Finally. A super heroine movie we deserve (and it’s even the one that we need right now). In a city rife with a...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Chernobyl
Or: An Ill Wind A spring night and a passel of neighbors are out on the railroad bridge, watching the sky. They tuck themselves into...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
The Call of the Wild
Or: The Good Undog It seems odd in retrospect that my main thought about going to see an adaptation of Jack London’s beloved adventure in...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Fourth Planet
Or: The Long Way Ahead A family picnic for the Garcia-Woods on a summer night. Guitar music, laughter, light misadventures, and then,...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Broadcast by the Wilma Theater Or: Tresspas So this is American Chekov. Four friends gathering out under the stars, the words of poets...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20254 min read
Slow Food
Or: Hunger is the Best Garnish It starts with the grapevines. They sprout around the entryway to the Boise Contemporary theater,...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Verböten a new musical at the House Theater
Or: Breaking Home “A Story about how Punk saves lives.” In 1983, in Evanston Illinois, a band was formed: Verböten. Born of rage against...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20254 min read
What the Constitution Means to Me
Or: Feel, too, the roots and seeds In the first few moments of the recording of What the Constitution Means to Me, Heidi Schreck,...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Les Blancs
At the National Theater Or: The Line Unbroken Why did no one tell me about this play? Why, in all my years of inching through dusty...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20255 min read
Emma 2020
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen through the hands of Autumn de Wilde (director) and Eleanor Catton (Screenwriter) Or: Eye of the...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20255 min read
1917
Or: Mendes’ Inferno The fields of France on an April day. Far off a lone tree stands in leaf and in the foreground two young brits Blake...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20253 min read
Burning Bluebeard
Broadcast by The Ruffians and Porchlight Music Theatre. Or: Flowers from her Hands Moonlight. Soft, poetic, chill, extraordinary. A light...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20254 min read
Anthony and Cleopatra with Boise Bard Players
Or: How Not to Make an Asp of Yourself Shakespeare gets a lot of flack for being precious; swaddled in the cotton of industry, academia,...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20254 min read
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