The Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing announces “Moonstruck,” its 2024-25 season. The year will feature performances of “Nightfall with Edgar Allen Poe” by Eric Coble, “Horoscope” by Rajiv Joseph, “They Promised Her the Moon” by Laurel Ollstein, and “The Little Prince” by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar from the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Each in its own way, these plays cast their gaze skywards, finding inspiration from the moon, in all its haunting, enchanting mystery. Edgar Allen Poe tells stories from the darkness of his mind, searching for light; the first American woman to test for spaceflight wrestles with her own memories; and a mysterious Little Prince and an Aviator find each other and a deeper sense of their own humanity in the desert.
Tickets on sale soon
Tickets for each performance will go on sale on Friday, August 23 through the Morrison Center website.
The Boise State Theatre Program proudly offers performances with audio description. You can purchase tickets for performances with audio description through the Morrison Center website.
Boise State students, faculty and staff can receive one free ticket by showing their Boise State ID card at the Morrison Center box office. Tickets subject to availability.
The Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing continues “Thrifty Thursdays,” offering tickets for all Thursday performance at a 30% discount. Come enjoy a weekday play and save a few bucks in the process!
Original season poster artwork
In collaboration with the Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies, the Boise State Theatre Program partnered with art instructor Erin Cunningham to create a series of original designs for the season poster artwork. Cunningham designed and created posters for the past two theatrical seasons, and will also design posters for this year’s “Moonstruck” season.
These stunning works inspired directly by the source material are now available as limited, archival-quality prints. All proceeds directly benefit the Boise State Theatre Scholarship Fund. You can purchase past posters and postcards here.
About the performances
“Nightfall with Edgar Allen Poe”
by Eric Coble
October 18-20, Oct. 24-27, Nov. 1 -3, 2024
Danny Peterson Theatre
Edgar Allan Poe stands alone in the flickering darkness of his mind, trying desperately to convince himself — and us — that he’s not mad. The spell he weaves brings us a highly theatrical adaptation of four tales Poe himself considered his best: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Enter the world of Poe and check your heartbeat at the door.
“Horoscope”
by Rajiv Joseph
October 24,2024
Come celebrate the exciting partnership between the Boise State Theatre Program and the Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency with a premiere reading of a new play, “Horoscope,” by Rajiv Joseph. The Theatre Arts Program at Boise State University is thrilled to be collaborating with Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency to connect our community with Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rajiv Joseph and director May Adrales, both of whom are extraordinarily talented and nationally recognized theatre artists. This unique cross-community collaboration will bring together theatre artists and organizations from Boise, the Wood River Valley, and New York City. Free and open to the public, the reading will be generously hosted by Boise Contemporary Theater. There will be concessions available for purchase. Donations to BCT will be accepted.
“They Promised Her the Moon”
by Laurel Ollstein
March 7-9, March 13-16, 2025
Danny Peterson Theatre
The first American woman to test for space flight, Jerrie Cobb, steps into an isolation tank for a record-breaking nine hours. Her memories unfold before her, from learning to fly a plane as a child in Oklahoma to testifying in Congressional hearings about the under-the-radar all-female Mercury 13 space program. A compelling drama about the challenges of sisterhood and fighting for the greater good, “They Promised Her the Moon” is based on a fascinating true story that shines a light on the unknown stories of our space progam.
“The Little Prince”
by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar from the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
April 11-13, April 17-19, April 24-27, 2025
The Little Prince may have returned to his own tiny planet to tend his Rose and look after his Sheep, but for a short enchanted time he returns to us and comes alive on stage. This play tells the story of a world-weary and disenchanted Aviator whose sputtering plane strands him in the Sahara Desert, and a mysterious, regal “little man” who appears and asks him to “Please, sir, draw me a sheep.” During their two weeks together in the desert, the Little Prince tells the Aviator about his adventures through the galaxy, how he met the Lamplighter and the Businessman and the Geographer, and about his strained relationship with a very special flower on his own tiny planet. The Little Prince talks to everyone he meets: a garden of roses, the Snake, and a Fox who wishes to be tamed. From each he gains a unique insight which he shares with the Aviator: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.” “What is essential is invisible to the eye.” At length, both the “little man” and the Aviator must go home—each with a new understanding of how to laugh, cry, and love again.