HAMMOND CASTLE December 16 & 17 Performed live at Big Wood Cinema in Hailey Written by Naomi McDougall Jones Directed by Veronica Moonhill A soon-to-be-filmed motion picture script, written by TLTC’s Naomi McDougall Jones, Hammond Castle will be presented as a 2-day Live Staged Radio Play! Featuring an on-stage foley artist creating sound effects alongside a full cast, this fairytale for grown-ups is the story of a 7-month pregnant failed actress who becomes entangled with the power-hungry ghost of a long forgotten inventor hell-bent on fame. He draws her into a glamorous, ghost-filled fantasy and together they hatch a dangerous plan to secure both their legacies… at a terrible cost. Shows Dec 16th @2pm & 7pm, and Dec 17th @7pm. $30 General Admission / $15 Student. Tickets at LibertyTheatreCompany.org
Sun Valley Opera and Broadway presents the Met Opera’s live simulcast of “Dead Man Walking”
The 2023-2024 Season of The Metropolitan Opera’s Live Simulcast Opera Performances begins on Saturday, October 21, 2023 with “Dead Man Walking”. Sun Valley Opera and Broadway will present its MET HD Live Simulcast Operas at the Magic Lantern Theater in Ketchum. “Dead Man Walkin”g is based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer. “Dead Man Walking” matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The outstanding cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and legendary mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother. Content Advisory: “Dead Man Walking” contains a depiction of a rape and murder, as well as other adult themes and strong language.
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Join Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency for a FREE reading of Rajiv Joseph’s play “Gruesome Playground Injuries” on Saturday, October 14 at 7:00 PM at The Argyros in Ketchum. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time Obie Award winner, Rajiv Joseph is the 2023-2024 Resident Playwright of Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency. The reading is also directed by Rajiv Joseph, and it features David Janeski and Aly Wepplo. In “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals over the course of 30 years, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together. The reading is FREE, and reservations are required. To reserve a seat, visit www.sunvalleyplaywrights.org. SUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHT’S RESIDENCY is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that fosters new relationships between theatremakers and Idaho’s Wood River Valley community and fuels the American theatre with invigorating new plays, in partnership with The Argyros Performing Arts Center and The Community Library. Now in its third year, Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency pioneers a radically new approach to supporting playwrights and the development of their new work, annually focusing with laser precision on an individual playwright who receives creative support to foster a …
Reading of an Excerpt of a New Play-in-Progress by Pulitzer Winner Martyna Majok
Pulitzer Prize winner & Tony Award nominee Martyna Majok returns to Ketchum with Off Broadway director Caitlin Sullivan to workshop a brand new play that Martyna has been writing with the support of Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency. On September 28 at 7:00 PM, Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency invites you to attend a reading of an excerpt of Martyna’s new play-in-progress. The event is FREE of charge, and reservations are required. Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency is a non-profit organization that gives playwrights time and resources to write in an inspired Idaho setting and provides the local community events that offer insight into writers’ creative processes. We foster new relationships between theatremakers and Idaho’s Wood River Valley community and fuel the American theatre with invigorating new plays that speak to our collective humanity. Annually, we work with one playwright to foster a new play from idea to full draft, and we produce events centered on this playwright, their existing plays, and the new play they are writing. The playwright begins the residency with a month-long stay at the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House, which is owned and operated by The Community Library. Ernest Hemingway visited Idaho for more than two decades, …
Q&A with Pulitzer winner Martyna Majok & director Caitlin Sullivan
Pulitzer Prize winner & Tony Award nominee Martyna Majok returns to Ketchum with Off Broadway director Caitlin Sullivan to workshop a brand new play that Martyna has been writing with the support of Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency. On September 27 at 5:30 PM, Martyna & Caitlin will participate in a special Q&A at The Argyros Performing Arts Center. Moderated by Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency Artistic Director John Baker, Martyna and Caitlin will speak about their work and collaboration before taking questions from the audience. The Q&A is FREE of charge. Space is limited, and reservations are required. This event is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, a State-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this event do not necessarily represent those of the Idaho Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency is a non-profit organization that gives playwrights time and resources to write in an inspired Idaho setting and provides the local community events that offer insight into writers’ creative processes. We foster new relationships between theatremakers and Idaho’s Wood River Valley community and fuel the American theatre with …
ALMA @ The Spot
SEPT 29–OCT 8 ALMA by Benjamin Benne Directed by BRETT MOELLENBERG Performed by MARLENE MONTES and ISABELLA ORREGO DESCRIPTION: Working mom Alma (Marlene Montes) has single handedly raised her daughter, Angel (Isabella Orrego), on tough love, home-cooked comida, and lots of prayers. But on the eve of the all-important SAT, Alma discovers her daughter isn’t at home studying. A schooling and la chancla await Angel at home—but so does a creeping realization that more’s at stake than just a test score. A sacrifice from Alma’s past weighs heavy on their present; now, Alma fears that her worst nightmare may soon be their reality. Will the American Dream cost them a life together? [synopsis by Cat Rodríguez] *Winner of Arizona Theatre Company’s National Latinx Playwriting Award *Winner of American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award RUN TIME: approx. 90 minutes with no intermission SUITABILITY: recommended for audiences 12+ TICKETS: PREMIUM • $40 STANDARD • $30 SECOND ROW FLOOR • $22 🔥 STUDENT/30 and UNDER • $15 *special price for patrons currently enrolled in school and/or patrons aged 30 and under PERFORMANCES: Friday Sept. 29 @ 7:30pm Saturday Sept. 30 @ 4:00pm + 7:30pm Sunday Oct. 1 @ 4:00pm Wednesday Oct. 4 @ 7:30pm Thursday Oct. 5 @ 7:30pm Friday Oct. 6 @ 7:30pm Saturday Oct. 7 @ 7:30pm Sunday Oct. 8 @ 4:00pm Stay …
Chicago
CHICAGO Presented by The Liberty Theatre Company October 4-28 at The Mint in Hailey Written by Bob Fosse, Music/Lyrics by John Kander & Fred Ebb Directed by Naomi McDougall Jones Music Direction by R.L. Rowsey Choreography by Sami Bass Tickets at LibertyTheatreCompany.org The Liberty Theatre Company’s production of Chicago will be an immersive experience, seating audiences in the den of a 1920’s speakeasy and serving up a tall drink of glitz and glamor. Broadway’s longest-running American musical, Chicago is a dazzling and satirical look at fame, justice, and the media machine. Based on real-life murders and trials, Chicago follows Roxie Hart, a wannabe vaudevillian star who murders her lover and is arrested, despite her attempts to convince her pushover husband, Amos, to lie for her. Chicago is a musical spectacular that is as addictive as gossip and as unforgettable as any trial of the century. PERFORMANCES: October 4th – 7pm October 5th – 7pm October 6th – 7pm October 7th – 7pm October 12th – 7pm October 13th – 7pm October 14th – 7pm October 15th – 2pm Matinee October 19th – 7pm October 20th – 7pm October 21st – 7pm October 22nd – 2pm Matinee October 25th – 7pm …
SPOT STUDIO SERIES: Epoxy Resin Nightmare
EPOXY RESIN NIGHTMARE by Annabel Webster (NY based playwright originally from Sun Valley/Ketchum; Spot Young Co. Alumni) SHOW DESCRIPTION: Epoxy Resin Nightmare is a nonlinear play (or fever dream) about girlhood and generational curses in the gothic deserts of Southern Idaho. A mother and daughter sharing time, space, and god, connect through themes of sexuality, bodily preservation, and big stinkin’ white lilies. Annabel Webster’s first play at The Spot asks you to wish for a savior but believe in the carnage of women everlasting. Directed by Annabel Webster, Kagen Albright + Wyatt Root Movement Coordinator Julia Ott Stage Manager Wyatt Root with support from Elena Vorm featuring Spot Young Co. Alumni Chloe Khosrowshahi, Annabelle Lewis + Coco Vorm August 17-19 @ 7:30pm August 20 @ 4:00pm SPOT STUDIO SERIES: The Spot Studio Series is a selection of new and published theatrical works presented in our black box space with no frills (minimal tech.) These pop-up shows are stripped-back with short, galvanizing, concentrated rehearsal processes where actors and directors get to explore the text, source material and heart of the work. It’s our version of scene-study, but in classic Spot fashion, we do the whole thing. The Spot Studio Series …
Wyatt Earp: A Life on the Frontier
Meet the man, not the myth! The contemporary Wyatt Earp, great grandnephew of the original Wyatt Earp, has been portraying his famous ancestor in this one-man show since 1996. Set in the mid-1920s, an elderly Wyatt Earp tells of his adventures from Arizona to Alaska during the final days of the American frontier. Think 1928…the place is a small apartment in Los Angeles…a tired Wyatt Earp speaks one-on-one with his biographer telling of his time in Tombstone, and his sometimes-turbulent 47-year life with wife Josephine as they traveled throughout the West and Alaska. The play has delighted audiences throughout North America and Europe and was written by the late award-winning playwright Terry Tafoya Earp.
Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief
Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief Presented by THE LIBERTY THEATRE COMPANY July 7-22 at The Mint in Hailey Written by Paula Vogel Directed by Veronica Moonhill Starring Audra Honaker, Tess Makena, and Aly Wepplo Tickets at LibertyTheatreCompany.org This rowdy, hysterical, feminist update on Othello is written by Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of How I Learned to Drive, and serves as the perfect addition to summer fun in Hailey. As the wrongly accused and suffering wife of Shakespeare’s tragic Moor, Othello, Desdemona has long been viewed as the “victim of circumstance.” But as Paula Vogel demonstrates in her comic deconstruction of Shakespeare’s play – aligning tongue-in-cheek humor while raising serious questions as to the role of women through the ages – Desdemona was far from the quivering naif we’ve all come to know. PERFORMANCES: July 7th – 8th at 7pm July 9th at 2pm and 7pm July 13th – 15th at 7pm July 16th at 2pm July 19th – 21st at 7pm July 22nd at 2pm TICKET PRICE: $30 General Admission $15 Student Fort tickets and season passes, call 208-582-8388, or visit LibertyTheatreCompany.org
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