A Bright New Boise at Detroit Mercy Theatre Company

Samuel D. Hunter’s humorous and heartbreaking comedy A Bright New Boise continues the 47th season of the Detroit Mercy Theatre Company Feb. 9-25. Performances will be at The Marlene Boll Theatre inside of the Boll Family YMCA in downtown Detroit.

A Bright New Boise is set in the corporate break room of a craft store in Idaho. Will fled his rural hometown after a scandal at his Evangelical church. Now employed at Hobby Lobby, he attempts to rekindle a relationship with Alex, his son he gave up for adoption several years ago. Alex works side-by-side Leroy, his adopted brother, Anna, a woman who reads bland fiction, and their manager, Pauline, who tries to find order in the chaos of small business. Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise is an earnest comedy about the meager profits and beige-tinted impossibility of modern faith.

Directed by Professor of Theatre, Arthur J. Beer, Ph.D., the Detroit Mercy Theatre Company’s cast — a mix of resident professionals with students from the acclaimed University of Detroit Mercy acting program — includes professionals Joel Frazee as Will and Maggie Lorenzetti as Pauline. Students include Nina Carlson as Anna, Preston Cornelius as Alex and Christian Plonka as Leroy.

A Bright New Boise will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 and 24 and 3 p.m. on Feb. 11, 18, and 25.

Tickets to A Bright New Boise can be purchased online at www.DetroitMercyArts.com or over the phone at 313-993-3270. Individual ticket prices are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors, $10 for veterans and $10 for students (with valid ID).

Detroit Mercy Theatre Company is the professional theatre company attached to the Performing Arts Department at the University of Detroit Mercy. DMTC is a collective of artists composed of faculty, professional guest artists and students producing gritty, relevant theatre focusing on entertaining and awakening the imagination while training future theatre artists to develop the intellectual, ethical and practical skills for a creative future.