The Boise State Theatre Arts Program announces its 2025-2026 production season, titled: “Rebels, Radicals and Rockstars.”
This season will feature productions of “Lysistrata,” adapted by Ellen McLaughlin; “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” By Charles M. Schulz, based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson, stage adaptation by Eric Shaeffer; a staged reading of “Galileo” by Bertolt Brecht and adapted by David Hare; and “Grease,” book, music, and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
Each of these productions centers characters who refuse to conform, who push against the status quo and question the norms of their time. An Athenian woman named Lysistrata inspires the women of Greece to end the destructive Peloponnesian War through an unconventional means of protest. Charlie Brown laments the materialism that dominates Christmas, and tries–with help from his friends–to find the true spirit of the season. A brilliant physicist and astronomer, Galileo Galilei challenges the all-powerful Catholic Church in the 1600s with a new theory of the structure of the galaxy, risking everything. A group of working class teenagers at Rydell High School navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values and love.
Tickets on sale soon
Tickets for each performance will go on sale in August 2025 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.
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.
Featured productions
“Lysistrata”
Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin
Directed by Gordon Reinhart
A partnership with Boise State Improv Club
Danny Peterson Theatre
This fresh, fast-paced comedy, inspired by the Aristophanes play, follows Lysistrata, an Athenian who calls for the women of Greece to help end the Peloponnesian War. She proposes a radical plan: All Greek women must refuse to engage in lovemaking until the men see reason, lay down their arms, and come home to lie down with their wives in peace. The women agree to make the sacrifice and all hell breaks loose as men wander the country in an agony of unsatisfied lust. Will Lysistrata and her crew accomplish what the politicians could not? Mature content suggested age 16 and older.
Performances:
- Friday 10/17/25 – 7:30 PM
- Saturday 10/18/25 – 7:30 PM
- Sunday 10/19/25 – 2:00 PM
- Thursday 10/23/25 – 7:30 PM (Thrifty Thursday)
- Friday 10/24/25 – 7:30 PM
- Saturday 10/25/25 – 7:30 PM
- Sunday 10/26/25 – 2:00 PM
“A Charlie Brown Christmas”
By Charles M. Schulz
Based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson
Stage Adaptation by Eric Schaeffer
Directed by Darrin Pufall Purdy and Ann Price
Danny Peterson Theatre
Back by popular demand! The classic animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas comes to life in this faithful stage adaptation in which Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Performances:
- Thursday 11/20/25 – 7:00 PM (Thrifty Thursday)
- Friday 11/21/25 – 7:00 PM
- Saturday 11/22/25 – 12 PM and 4:00 PM
- Sunday 11/23/25 – 2:00 PM
- Thursday 12/4/25 – 7:00 PM (Thrifty Thursday)
- Friday 12/5/25 – 7:00 PM
- Saturday 12/6/25 – 12 PM and 4:00 PM
- Sunday 12/7/25 – 2:00 PM
“Galileo”
By Bertolt Brecht
Adapted by David Hare
Directed by Gordon Reinhart
Galileo is a humanizing and compelling portrait of the great scientist, torn between his scientific principles and his desire for the comfortable life that compliance with authority affords. Known as one of Brecht’s great masterpieces, Galileo examines scientific morality and a scientist’s ethical responsibility when he must choose between his life and his research while being confronted by the Inquisition.
A special staged reading of excerpts from the play.
Performance:
Friday 2/6/26
“Grease”
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Directed by Darrin Pufall Purdy
Morrison Center for the Performing Arts Main Hall
Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical.
Performances:
Friday 4/17/2026 – 7:30 PM
Saturday 4/18/26 – 7:30 PM
Sunday 4/19/26 – 2:00 PM