11 theaters in Boise, Idaho. 27 shows playing or coming up, 3 open auditions, 2 camps and classes, 1 crew call.
Patrick Barlow (adapted from John Buchan)
A fast-paced stage spoof of the Hitchcock thriller in which four actors play more than 150 characters.
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Checked against the theater's site on Fri Oct 9
F. Andrew Leslie (from Shirley Jackson's novel)
A stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson's ghost story about an investigator and his team in a notoriously haunted mansion.
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Checked against the theater's site on Fri Oct 9
CSz Boise (ComedySportz Boise)
Two teams of improvisers compete while a referee and the audience call the shots, in CSz Boise's flagship Saturday show.
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Checked against the theater's site on Fri Oct 9
Watson's Mystery Cafe and Spirits
A Sherlock Holmes stage mystery performed at Watson's cafe-theatre.
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Checked against the theater's site on Sun Oct 18
CSz Boise (ComedySportz Boise)
An improvised musical created on the spot from audience suggestions; this is the adults-only version.
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Inspired by Washington Irving
Watson's Mystery Cafe and Spirits
A stage telling of Washington Irving's ghost story at Watson's cafe-theatre, with a full bar and kitchen open during the show.
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Checked against the theater's site on Sun Oct 18
Gregg Irwin
A black box reading of a dramedy about a small-town family that runs an unofficial halfway house.
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Watson's Mystery Cafe and Spirits
An interactive murder-mystery show set in a speakeasy where the audience helps solve the crime; non-interactive bar seating is also sold.
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Checked against the theater's site on Sun Oct 18
Boise Music Week's 2026 youth holiday revue, arranged and directed by Cheryl Blauer, Rebecca Pearce and Kay Mack and cast from auditions held Sept 19.
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CSz Boise (ComedySportz Boise)
A fully improvised fantasy adventure inspired by tabletop role-playing games, with the audience and dice steering the story.
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John Vreeke (adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett)
A girl sent to a London boarding school loses her fortune and is made a servant, and holds on to hope through imagination.
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Watson's Mystery Cafe and Spirits
A second Sherlock Holmes stage mystery at Watson's cafe-theatre.
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Checked against the theater's site on Sun Oct 18
Treasure Valley Children's Theater
Non-musical stage version of the Kris Kringle courtroom story, cast with youth, adult actors and families and directed by Cheryl Blauer.
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Checked against the theater's site on Fri Oct 9
CSz Boise (ComedySportz Boise)
An improvised musical created on the spot from audience suggestions, with the content kept PG.
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Peter Rothstein
A music-filled retelling of the 1914 Christmas truce on the Western Front.
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Joseph Nixon and Ian Shaw
A comedy about the actors stuck on the troubled shoot of Jaws.
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Michael Parker and Susan Parker
A comedy in which three guests at a bed and breakfast become the target of a self-proclaimed Casanova and an untested libido pill.
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Various local playwrights
An evening of ten-minute plays by local writers, staged by a range of newer directors in the black box.
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Luigi Jannuzzi
A one-set comedy about a blind date, a casting call, a dancing nun and a frantic wedding party in one cafe.
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Margaret Edson
A Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about an English professor facing experimental treatment for ovarian cancer.
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Deborah Brevoort
A poetic drama in which a grieving mother meets the women of Lockerbie who wash the clothes of the Pan Am 103 victims.
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Checked against the theater's site on Fri Oct 9
Kate Hamill (adapted from Jane Austen)
A screwball stage adaptation of Austen's novel about a meddling matchmaker.
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Lauren Gunderson
A comedy set during the French Reign of Terror about a playwright, an assassin, a former queen and a spy.
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Michael Hollinger
A film-noir-style 1950s comedy about a detective, a Soviet spy and a senator's daughter.
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John August (book), Andrew Lippa (music and lyrics)
Boise Music Week's 2026-27 community mainstage musical, the tall-tale story of Edward Bloom and his son, with a cast chosen by audition.
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Checked against the theater's site on Fri Oct 9
Sandy Rustin
A farce spoofing English drawing-room comedies, set at a country retreat where an affair comes to light.
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Rob Urbinati (book), Peter Mills (music and lyrics)
A comic musical that mixes Noel Coward wit with an Agatha Christie style plot at an English country manor in 1932.
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Michael Parker and Susan Parker
Note: Audition sessions are 10am-12pm and 1pm-3pm on Saturday, November 21. Roles listed are six, not five.
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CSz Boise (ComedySportz Boise)
Note: The page says 'Next chance to tryout is Thursday, January 7th' without a year; 2027 inferred because January 7, 2027 is a Thursday. Start time not stated. Pay not stated. CSz is a team recruited by open tryout, not a single scripted production.
Checked against the theater's notice on Fri Oct 9
Margaret Edson
Note: The audition page says 'More information coming soon!'; roles and preparation not yet posted. Year 2027 inferred from the March 2027 run (January 9 is a Saturday in 2027).
Checked against the theater's notice on Fri Oct 9
Boise Contemporary Theater Academy
Boise Contemporary Theater Academy
semi-professional theater company
A nonprofit mobile theater company staging Shakespeare and other classics in parks, breweries and historic sites around the Treasure Valley.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
The youth education arm of Boise Contemporary Theater, with Theater Lab (ages 12 to 18, audition placement, students write and perform original plays on BCT's stage), Stage One (ages 7 to 11) and summer one-week classes.
2 camps and classes
A Boise community theater billed as Idaho's longest-running, with a mainstage and a black box.
Now playing: The 39 Steps through Oct 24 · 9 more shows coming up
A nonprofit festival since 1919 that also stages a community mainstage musical every spring at the Morrison Center and a youth holiday revue, both cast by audition.
Twelve Songs of Christmas, A Musical Revue opens Nov 19 · 1 more show coming up
A nonprofit improv theater at The Green Room with weekend shows and classes for kids, teens and adults. It casts its ComedySportz team by open tryouts about twice a year, open to everyone 18 and older regardless of experience.
Now playing: ComedySportz through Nov 21 · 3 more shows coming up · 1 open audition
youth theater
The education arm of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, with School of Theater classes and summer camps for grades 1 to 12 and adults, an audition-only high school Apprentice Company and school tours.
Nothing announced right now
A women-led, SITI-trained physical theater ensemble making immersive site-specific work, with seasonal movement classes and devising workshops.
Nothing announced right now
A Boise community theater with its own bar and a large membership.
Now playing: The Haunting of Hill House through Oct 31 · 5 more shows coming up · 2 open auditions · 1 crew call
A female-founded theater ensemble formed by Boise State alumni in 2024, sharing stories of women and queer people through contemporary and devised work.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
A nonprofit youth theater founded in 2012 with year-round classes, camps and youth and family productions, at the Overland Park Shopping Center with a class satellite at the Meridian Masonic Temple.
Miracle on 34th Street opens Dec 3
semi-professional theater company
A dinner-theater cafe and bar that stages murder-mystery dinners and light-hearted plays with a local cast. Part of each ticket supports SIPAA, the Southwest Idaho Performing Arts Association, which funds rural school drama.
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain opens Oct 24 · 3 more shows coming up