Playwright Brings ‘Boise’ To Stage

In the drab break room of a Boise Hobby Lobby store, father and son collide, brothers work to preserve family ties, lost souls pursue their dreams and one man waits for the rapture. That’s the setup in Samuel D. Hunter’s Obie Award-winning play, “A Bright New Boise,” which is having its Idaho premiere tonight in Moscow. The play, co-produced by Moscow Art Theatre (Too) and the University of Idaho’s Theater Arts department, centers on Will (Alex Wendel), a disgraced evangelical fleeing from his collapsed North Idaho congregation who goes looking for his estranged son Alex (Hunter Price). Alex and his adopted brother, Leroy (Jonathan Rau), work at the Hobby Lobby, with loudmouthed manager Pauline (Maggie Miller) and the daydreaming Anna (Park Williams). Will takes a job at the store not only to get closer to his son, but to await salvation/ Carolyn Lamberson , SR. More here. (Courtesy photo: Emily Sky Carlson)

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