Aug. 2-4, 9-11

The Bard’s Town
1801 Bardstown Road • 749-5275
thebardstowntheatre.org
$15-$16; 7:30 p.m.

Beyond the endless aisles of “Fall & Harvest” decorations, sumptuous scrap-booking supplies, silk flowers and yarn, some dark secrets and family drama arise in this Boise, Idaho, Hobby Lobby store. Director Doug Schutte and the Bard’s Town Theatre bring to Louisville for the first time Samuel D. Hunter’s OBIE (Off-Broadway Award)-winning play, in which a former evangelical takes a job at the Christian craft supercenter to try and reconnect with his son. “Very early on, we knew we wanted to build a theater that did two things: develop new work by Kentucky playwrights, and bring new and innovative work being done in New York into the Louisville theater landscape,” says Schutte. “‘A Bright New Boise’ is the perfect beginning to the development of our mission.” —Jane Mattingly