Theater News:

Sincere thanks to all of our sponsors and theater supporters, we hope you will support their businesses! See the list here.

In addition to the balcony and entry restoration projects, the Idaho Heritage Trust has awarded a $100,000.00 grant for restoration of the theater parapet. With original architectual drawings, this project will restore the theater exterior to its original “proto-deco” design. This project is supported through a grant from the Historic Preservation Fund of the National Park Service, Department of Interior, and the IdahoHeritage Trust.

Huge  thanks to the Cushing Terrell for awarding Opera Theater Friends $25,000. in engineering and architectual services to restore the building parapet. Our heartfelt thanks for  the enrichment of our community!

We are grateful for a $30,000. grant provided by the  Harry W. Morrison towards the restoration of the building parapet. We extend thanks and gratitude to the Harry W. Morrison Foundation for believing in preserving the history of this theater and rural idaho.

The importantance of M.J. Murdock to our parapet restoration is everthing!  We are so thankful for their support of the theater through an $80,000. grant to help restore the buiding parapet. We are deeply grateful to the M.J. Charitable Trust for recognizing that perserving the history of this theater will make a differencee to future generations.

We extend thanks and gratitude to AgWest Farm Credit for offering a grant program that is helping preserve our history and theater.

Thanks to the Idaho Commission on the Arts for sponsoring, in part, the 2025/2026 Entry Track Grant. We are very grateful for their support of our community theater!

Supported in part by a grant from Creative West which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, we are excited to include more artists in our 2026 entertainment line-up.