"Grease"
In the Morrison Center 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.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
Directed by Darrin Pufall Purdy.
Audio Description is available for the performance on April 19th at 2:00 PM.
About Theatre Arts
In the Boise State Theatre Arts Program, each student will find opportunities to actively participate in academics, productions and student organizations from the first day of the semester. Our students are some of the most involved and active across campus. Our tight-knit group of faculty, students and staff work together to produce main-stage productions, student performances and academic assignments and projects.
The Theatre Arts Program offers hands-on learning in classes as well as productions, which are staged in the Danny Paterson Theater and on the Main Stage in the Morrison Center for the Performing Arts. Students study and practice all aspects of the theatrical arts, from acting, design, scenic construction, dramatic writing, costume construction, lighting, stage management and more. The coursework allows students to gain experience in all areas of theatre arts while also specializing in their area of interest.
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Scholarships
The Theatre Arts Program is pleased to offer a variety of student scholarship opportunities. For more information regarding specific scholarship options and requirements, please visit our scholarship page. For additional scholarship opportunities, please visit Boise State Financial Aid.
2025-2026 Production Season
Lysistrata
October 17 -26, 2025
Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin
A partnership with Boise State Improv Club
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.
Speech & Debate
October 25, 2025 – The Liberty Theatre in Hailey, ID
October 26, 2025 – The Boise Contemporary Theatre in Boise, ID
The Boise State Theatre Arts Program is thrilled to once again partner with the Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency to perform two public readings of “Speech & Debate” by Stephen Karam.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
November 20 – December 7, 2025
By Charles M. Schulz, based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson, stage Adaptation by Eric Schaeffer
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.
The Life of Galileo
February 6, 2026
By Bertolt Brecht
The Theatre Arts Program presents a reading of selections from Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece, “The Life of Galileo.” The play follows the career of the great Italian natural philosopher Galileo Galilei during the Galileo affair, in which he was prosecuted for heresy by the Roman Catholic Church for daring to challenge their model of the galaxy. Exploring the relationship between science and political authority, and the question of how to stand up for the truth under oppression, the play brings one of our greatest scientific minds to life.
Grease
April 17-19, 2026
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
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.
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The Theatre program at Boise State provides theoretical and practical courses in a variety of areas, all within a liberal arts-based environment. The program also produces plays and dance concerts each year that train our majors in every aspect of production.
These performances challenge and educate our students and provide cultural enrichment to the community at large. The program strives to prepare graduates to work in the entertainment industry, to study theatre or dance at the graduate level, or to achieve certification to teach drama. Accredited Institutional Member of the National Association of Schools of Theatre.