– A Tony award-winning play fresh off Broadway opens a new season on October 1st with a new Fellowship recipient making his Boise Contemporary Theater (BCT) debut as Assistant Director. Previews start Wednesday, October 1, and shows continue through Saturday, October 18, 2025.
Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector won the 2025 Tony for Best Revival of a Play this June, a first for the playwright who made his Broadway debut with this play. Now opening the 25|26 Season at BCT, several Eureka Day production members are making debuts of their own- even some Boise locals! BCT welcomes back local actors Joe Conley Golden and Marissa Price, and is thrilled to welcome locals Matthew Melton, making his BCT MainStage debut, and Shana Tavares, making her BCT debut. Also making their BCT debuts with this production are actors Hanna-Lee Sakakibara and Alexis Ward, as well as local Props Designer Hayden Pedersen and Assistant Director Jacob McGaughey from the University of Idaho.
Producing Artistic Director Benjamin Burdick explained, “I first read this play in 2018, and I knew it would be a perfect fit for BCT. Little did I know that the intervening years would prove this play to be so incredibly prescient. It is thoughtful, funny, and, at times, heartbreaking. I am thrilled that BCT is the first theater in the northwest to produce Eureka Day.”
Assistant Director Jacob McGaughey, the inaugural recipient of the Ari Keever Trajectory Fellowship, had this to say about the opportunity, “I have the privilege of honoring Ari Keever and her legacy through this fellowship by creating theatre in her name, as well as by helping to define what this fellowship means for future recipients. I am very excited to start working down in Boise, and I am so grateful to the University of Idaho, Boise Contemporary Theater, and Trajectory Consulting & Solutions for creating this honor and allowing me to inaugurate it into something special for students, artists, families, and the community now and for years to come.”
Production Details:
Eureka Day
by Jonathan Spector
Directed by Benjamin Burdick
October 1-18, 2025
Cast:
Joe Conley Golden (Don)
Matthew Melton (Eli)
Marissa Price (Suzanne)
Hanna-Lee Sakakibara (Meiko)
Shana Tavares (Winter)
Alexis Ward (Carina)
Production and Design Team:
Benjamin Burdick (Director)
Jacob McGaughey (Assistant Director)
Elena Maddy (Stage Manager)
Nicholas Jules Hewitt (Scenic Designer/Technical Director)
Hayden Pedersen (Props Designer)
Cassandra McCarty (Costume Designer)
Julien V. Elstob (Lighting Designer)
Drew Dalzell (Sound Designer)
Amandalynn Lovewell (Scenic Charge)
Matthew Wagner (Master Electrician)
Brayden Buckley (Sound Engineer/Sound Board Operator)
Previews: Wed, Oct 1 – Fri, Oct 3, 2025 – All seats only $28.
Pay What You Want Night: First preview, 7 PM Oct 1, and the last Wednesday, Oct 15. No online sales: pay what you want at the door. Accepting cash and cards (cards incur a small transaction fee).
First Thursday Happy Hour: 5:30-6:30 PM, Thursday, Oct 2. Only at our box office during this happy hour event, get tickets to any preview performance for just $20, or 20% off tickets to any regular performance of this play (excluding opening and closing night). Join us for discounts on tap beers from Lost Grove and Woodland Empire and wines generously provided by Hayden Beverage.
Opening Night: 7 PM Saturday, Oct 4. Tickets to opening night include the exclusive after party!
Educators’ Night: 7 PM Wednesday, Oct 8. Any school district employee with a valid school I.D. may buy one ticket at 50% off through our box office with code EDUNIGHT26. Show school I.D. at the door. (Not just for teachers, but any school district employee with a school I.D.).
Post-Show Convos: 2 PM Sat, Oct 11, & 7 PM Fri, Oct 17. Stay after the performance to talk with actors and other theater makers.
Closing Night: 7 PM Saturday, Oct 18.
Performances run Wednesday through Saturday for three weeks, Wed, Oct 1 – Sat, Oct 18, 2025. More information and performance times are available at https://bctheater.org/2526-mainstage-season/eureka-day/.
Tickets: $32 to $45, plus tax and fees. Previews: $28, Students: $15, Military: 20% off with code MILITARY20. Available online at https://bctheater.ludus.com/ or by calling the BCT box office at 208-331-9224.
For more information, please visit:
Playwright Jonathan Spector: http://www.jonathanspector.org/about.html
Pay What You Want Night: https://bctheater.org/pay-what-you-want-night/
First Thursday Happy Hour Event: https://bctheater.org/first-thursday-happy-hour-event/
Educators’ Night: https://bctheater.org/educators-night/
About Boise Contemporary Theater
Boise Contemporary Theater (BCT) is a professional nonprofit theater company in Boise, Idaho, whose mission is to inspire our community to examine our perspectives and better understand ourselves, each other, and the world around us by creating thought-provoking stories of the human experience. Founded in 1997, BCT is the only nonprofit professional theater within 300 miles dedicated to producing challenging new work. BCT is a recipient of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, a two-time recipient of the National Theater Company Award from the American Theater Wing, and the 2022-23 City of Boise Cultural Ambassador. Currently in its 28th season, BCT has presented over 100 MainStage productions, including over 25 world premieres such as Eric Coble’s The Velocity of Autumn, which continued to Broadway. The annual BIPOC Playwrights Festival, launched in 2021, furthers a commitment to presenting diverse new voices. BCT’s education program, A.C.T. at BCT, strives to reach a broad audience representative of the surrounding community, serving over 2,000 students through onsite and outreach Theater Lab programs in which students conceive, write, produce, and perform in their own original productions. BCT’s expanding outreach programs include underserved schools with high populations of low-income, at-risk, and refugee students.
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