A Bright New Boise

Despite the crisp wind of despair that blows through the purgatorial setting of Samuel D. Hunter’s beautifully realized A Bright New Boise, this clear-eyed comedy about faith’s meager harvest will still lift your heart—thanks to Hunter’s gentle characterizations, a plot that mingles absurdity and genuine philosophical investigation, and a full complement of smashing comic performances. In Davis McCallum’s charming production, we are reminded again why the great poets only dare question God with their most divine comedies.—Helen Shaw