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Boise Contemporary Theater (BCT) is a small professional theater company located in Boise, Idaho. Since 1997, BCT has been the only professional theater company in Boise committed to performing a complete season of contemporary work. ==History== BCT Founder and Artistic Director Matthew Cameron Clark began producing theater in Boise, Idaho in 1996. In November of that year, along with actors he had met the previous summer working for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, he co-produced and performed in Lone Star by James McLure in the basement of The Mode Building in Downtown Boise. When Matthew saw that there was an audience for professional contemporary theater in his home town, Boise Contemporary Theater was born and four more plays in four different venues were produced: ''Danny and the Deep Blue Sea'' by John Patrick Shanley (Neurolux and The Flying M Coffeehouse), ''All in the Timing'' by David Ives (Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy), the World Premiere of ''Drive Me'' by Maria Dahvana Headley (Baccus Cabaret) and ''Lonely Planet'' by Steven Dietz (Stage II of The Morrison Center). ''Lonely Planet'', in the spring of 1999, marked the first production for BCT as an official Non-Profit Organization. Boise Contemporary Theater began a capital campaign in 1999 to renovate a permanent home. Formally a seedhouse built in 1935, by October 2000, it had been transformed into a theater facility with a main-stage, classrooms, rehearsal loft and office space. The capital campaign ultimately raised $2.6 million. On October 12, 2000, BCT premiered its first production in a newly renovated theater on Fulton street in the heart of Boise's Cultural District: Steve Martin’s ''Picasso At The Lapin Agile'', directed by Artistic Director and Founder Matthew Cameron Clark. The season would go on to include ''True West'' by Sam Shepard and ''The Cripple of Inishman'' by Martin McDonagh.〔 BCT has had two productions directed by filmmaker Michael Hoffman: ''The Cherry Orchard'' by Anton Chekhov 〔http://media.www.arbiteronline.com/media/storage/paper890/news/2002/02/07/Ae/Chekhovs.Swan.Song.The.Cherry.Orchard-2213581.shtml〕 and ''Waiting for Godot'' by Samuel Beckett (co-directed with Matthew Cameron Clark). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boise Contemporary Theater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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