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Ballet Idaho Presents - THE NUTCRACKER
2025-12-13 14:00 UTC | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
What would the holidays be without Ballet Idaho’s magical production of The Nutcracker? The glittering anticipation begins as soon as the Boise Philharmonic plays the first overture notes of Tchaikovsky’s beloved score. The audience is swept into a magnificent party at the Stahlbaums’ home, where Clara and her family are celebrating the joy of the season as they await their guests. The mysterious Drosselmeyer brings a life-sized Nutcracker doll, and young Clara is immediately enchanted. When she falls asleep that evening, she is taken on a whimsical adventure through an epic battle with the Mouse King and his army, then to a sparkling snowy forest, and on to the deliciously color-saturated Land of Sweets. This is a holiday experience to be cherished, year after year.
Audio Description is available for the performances on December 14th at 12:00 PM and December 20th at 7:00 PM.

Capital City Public Market
2025-12-13 10:00 - 14:00 | 11th & Myrtle, 422 S 11th Street, Boise
Celebrating 31 Years!
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The Capital City Public Market began in 1994 with a small group of local vendors in downtown Boise. Fast forward 31 years, and we’re proud to host over 150 rotating vendors, each offering products made in Idaho by Idahoans.
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Our 2025 season kicks off on Saturday, April 19th, 2025! Join us every Saturday from 9:30am – 1:30pm through December 20th, 2025. Starting October 25th, our hours will change to 10:00am – 2:00pm.
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Find us in downtown Boise at 422 S 11th Street, on the corner of 11th and Myrtle.
Shopping local supports Idahoans, their families, and our community!

Breakfast with Santa at Zoo Boise
2025-12-13 08:30 - 10:45 | Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Dr, Boise, Idaho, 83702
At Breakfast with Santa guests will be treated to a buffet style breakfast, kids craft time, personal time with Santa, and a special animal experience. A time for photos with Santa will be available. Then you’ll have the rest of the day to explore the zoo!

Dec. 13, 2025
8:30-10:45am
At least one paid adult is required to attend with children.
Personal devices must be used for photos with Santa.
Limited space available.
Reservation deadline is Wed. Dec. 3 or until sold out.
Children 2 yrs. and under are free, but require a reservation.
If parties paying separately would like to be seated together, please contact events by Friday Dec. 5.
Cost includes all day zoo admission.
Discount for Friends of Zoo Boise members.
Please select the appropriate number of attendees according to age and status below.
All purchases are non-refundable, but may be transferred to another party. Please contact events in advance if this is the case.

Sickick
2025-12-12 20:00 | Treefort Music Hall, 722 W. Broad Street, Boise, ID, 83702, United States
Persona Productions & Rose Entertainment Present
Sickick

Treefort Music Hall
Friday, December 12th, 2025
DOORS: 8pm
SHOW: 8pm
18+
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Shane Gillis Live
2025-12-12 20:00 | ExtraMile Arena, 1401 Bronco Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83706
Shane Gillis Live

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Dec 12, 2025

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Shane Gillis Live
at ExtraMile Arena in Boise, ID
on Friday, December 12, 2025

Treefort for Good Fundraising Gala
2025-12-12 20:00 | Treefort Music Hall, 722 W. Broad Street, Boise, ID, 83702, United States
It’s been almost a year of Treefort for Good, and boy oh boy have we been doin’ some good! We’ve loved getting to build our free fort programming at the fest, and continuing it in the months since Treefort!
Now, we’re gearing up to host our annual Treefort for Good Gala, and we want to invite Y-O-U! Join us at Treefort Music Hall on December 10th for a silent auction, special features from some of your favorite forts, an update on Treefort for Good and the fest, and last but not least…Rockeoke.
Come rock out with us and help us raise funds to strengthen and sustain free, community-benefit and educational programming throughout the fest, and year ’round!

Dance Allegro Presents: The Nutcracker
2025-12-12 18:00, 2025-12-11 18:00, 2025-12-10 18:00 | Nampa Civic Center, 311 3rd Street South, Nampa, Idaho, 83651
Dance Allegro Academy presents our 16th annual winter spectacular and Nutcracker performances. Bring friends and family and come support our young community dancers!

Showtimes
The Nutcracker
Wednesday December 10, 2025 | 6:00PM
Thursday December 11, 2025 | 6:00PM
Winter Spectacular
Friday December 12, 2025 | 6:00PM

SunSquabi, High Gain Theory, Charly Foxx
2025-12-10 20:00 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
SunSquabi, High Gain Theory, Charly Foxx
9th St. Parallel at Knitting Factory
416 S 9th St – Boise, ID 83702
WedDecember 108:00 pm(Doors: 7:00 pm)
All Ages
$29.25

Pet Photos with Santa at The Village
2025-12-09 16:00 - 20:00 | The Village at Meridan, 3597 E Monarch Sky Ln #225,, Meridian, ID, 83646
Schedule your Pet Photos with Santa! Every Monday from 4pm to 8pm starting November 25th, through December 23rd!
Click the link below to book:
https://www.thesantapeople.com/villageatmeridiansanta
Pet Photo Dates:
Tuesday, November 25th 4pm to 8pm
Tuesday, December 2nd 4pm to 8pm
Tuesday, December 9th 4pm to 8pm
Tuesday, December 16th 4pm to 8pm

Trevor Wallace - The Alpha Beta Male
2025-12-07 21:00, 2025-12-07 18:00 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
Trevor Wallace: The Alpha Beta Male
The Egyptian Theatre
700 W. Main St – Boise, Idaho 83702
SunDecember 76:00 pm(Doors: 5:00 pm)
All Ages

Karate Riot & Friends
2025-12-07 19:00 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
Karate Riot & Friends
9th St. Parallel at Knitting Factory
416 S 9th St – Boise, ID 83702
SunDecember 77:00 pm(Doors: 6:30 pm)
All Ages
$16.92

Nate Bargatze | Big Dumb Eyes 2025 World Tour
2025-12-07 19:00 | ExtraMile Arena, 1401 Bronco Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83706
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Nate Bargatze
Big Dumb Eyes 2025 World Tour
at ExtraMile Arena in Boise, ID
on Sunday, December 7, 2025
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Afrosonics - Holiday Blast Off!
2025-12-07 19:00 | Treefort Music Hall, 722 W. Broad Street, Boise, ID, 83702, United States
Out of the desire to bring communities together, Afrosonics creates music featuring a collective of musicians from the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South America and the United States. At the heart of the group’s progression, the band has conscientiously integrated new American musicians (former refugees from war torn areas of the world) into the collective that is Afrosonics. The genre twist deepens with the infusion Idaho musicians into the collective with roots in country, rock, jazz and opera.
In a world of negative messages, we represent a positive hope to bring a harmonious voice to all.

Tape B
2025-12-07 18:30 | Revolution Concert House, 4983 N Glenwood St, Garden City, Idaho, 83714
Tape B

Dec 7, 2025
Doors: 6:30 PM / Show: 7:30 PM

Broadway in Boise 2025-2026 Season - MJ THE MUSICAL
2025-12-07 18:30, 2025-12-07 13:00, 2025-12-06 19:00, 2025-12-06 13:00 | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry comes to Boise in MJ, the multiple Tony Award®-winning musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. Created by Tony Award®-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. It’s thrilling sold out crowds on Broadway, in cities across North America, London’s West End, and Hamburg, Germany…and now MJ is startin’ somethin’ in Boise as it makes its premiere at the Morrison Center in December 2025.
The MJ creative team features Scenic Design by two-time Tony and Emmy Award winner Derek McLane, Lighting Design by seven-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz, Costume Design by Tony and Emmy Award winner Paul Tazewell, Sound Design by Tony Award winner Gareth Owen, Projection Design by two-time Tony Award nominee Peter Nigrini, Hair & Wig Design by two-time Emmy Award nominee Charles G. LaPointe, and Makeup Design by Emmy nominee Joe Dulude II. The creative team also features Musical Supervision by Tony Award nominee David Holcenberg, Orchestrations and Arrangements by David Holcenberg and Tony Award winner Jason Michael Webb, and Music Direction by Nathanael Wilkerson and Jason Yarcho. Casting by The Telsey Office / Rachel Hoffman, CSA, Lindsay Levine, CSA.
Run Time: 2:30, with one intermission.
Audio Description is available for the performance on December 6th at 1:00 PM.

Boise State University Presents - A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
2025-12-07 14:00, 2025-12-06 16:00 | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
Danny Peterson Theatre (inside the Morrison Center)
A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. Schulz
Based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson.
Stage Adaptation by Eric Schaeffer
Back by popular demand! The classic animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas comes to life in this faithful stage adaptation in which Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Audio Description is available for the performances on December 4th at 7:00 PM and December 7th at 2:00 PM.

Boise Christmas Show
2025-12-07 11:00 - 16:00 | Expo Idaho, 5610 North Glenwood Stree, Garden City, Idaho, 83714
Thousands of Unique Gifts,
Over 225 Vendors,
Visit with Santa & Mrs. Claus!

Breakfast With Santa presented by Dave & Buster's
2025-12-07 09:00 | Dave & Buster’s, 546 North Milwaukee Street, Boise
It’s Time for Dave & Buster’s Annual Breakfast with Santa!
A Holly Jolly Magical Morning filled with fun & festivities for the whole family to enjoy!

Kick off the season with sparkle and cheer at our exclusive Breakfast with Santa event! Before doors open to the public, your family gets VIP early access to a wonderland of holiday fun:

Feast on a festive breakfast banquet

Play games exclusively in our arcade

Snap a keepsake photo with Santa himself

Write letters to Santa & decorate holiday crafts

Enjoy a cozy, joy-filled atmosphere perfect for all ages!

Bring your camera, your wish list, and your holiday spirit – this isn’t just breakfast, it’s a holiday memory in the making! Spots are limited – reserve your seat today and make this season unforgettable!

Ticket Packages:
1. Santa Ticket: Santa’s breakfast banquet with soda, coffee, tea, & assorted juices, $10 Power Card® with 3-hrs of Unlimited Video Game Play, personal photo with Santa, merry & bright activities, taxes, and a suggested 18% gratuity. ​
2. Elf Ticket: Santa’s breakfast banquet with soda, coffee, tea, & assorted juices, taxes, and a suggested 18% gratuity.

Questions? Contact Tammy Gotti tammy.gotti@daveandbusters.com

All children must be accompanied by an adult at all times; All adults must have tickets for entry. Children under the age of 2 do not need a ticket for entry. Once purchased, all tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
*Tickets are required for entry to the event. Unlimited Video Game Play is good for non-redemption games ONLY and excludes ticketed, crane, virtual reality, and other specialty games. Ticketed, specialty and crane games can be accessed with the chips that is loaded onto the Power Car and/or some may require additional purchases – ask Sales Manager for more details. Minor policies vary by location – visitdaveandbusters.com/locations for details. Other restrictions may apply. See store for details.

An Evening with the Mountain Goats
2025-12-06 20:00 | Treefort Music Hall, 722 W. Broad Street, Boise, ID, 83702, United States
There are Mountain Goats albums that emerge from historical deep dives, vividly rendered autobiography, liturgical exploration, and modern anthropological study. Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan came from a dream. In May 2023, John Darnielle took to his phone in the middle of the night to document a title from somewhere in his subconscious. Because this is the Mountain Goats—a band known for avoiding the easy route, always challenging themselves to push a step beyond—Darnielle not only decided to complete this mysterious project but also to deliver it as a full-on musical that stands as the most conceptually detailed and musically elaborate project in the band’s ever-expanding catalog.
“I loved musicals when I was a kid,” Darnielle explains, “but I hadn’t really indulged in them that much until the last 7 years or so. And then we did Jenny From Thebes, which I called a ‘fake musical’ a lot… But this one actually is going for it.”
Produced by the Mountain Goats’ multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas, who also co-wrote several songs, the record is embracing, inviting, and overflowing with melody and orchestration that extends far beyond the boundaries of their past work. “My approach is more arrangement-based,” Douglas says of his role. “I’m trying to sculpt the shape of the songs with the layering of instruments that are suiting the song best… I am sometimes a bit of a maximalist with that stuff. Sometimes more is more!”
Drawing on the cryptic phrasing of its title, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan tells the story of a small crew shipwrecked on a desert island, where three surviving members—an unnamed narrator, Captain Peter Balkan, and Adam—are plagued by diminishing resources and apocalyptic visions. “The first thing you learn is how strong you can be if you have to,” Darnielle sings early in the album. “The next thing you learn is how cold it can get at night.”
These are tales of survival and desolation, brutality and tenderness, hard-earned wisdom and heaps of compassion, novelistic detail and shouted, wordless choruses that transcend language. In other words, these are Mountain Goats songs, further deepening a singular body of work now spanning over three decades. To match the conceptual heft of the narrative, the band’s core members—John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, and drummer Jon Wurster—are accompanied by bassist Cameron Ralston and crucial appearances from Replacements legend Tommy Stinson, harpist Mikaela Davis, and musical theater royalty Lin-Manuel Miranda, a longtime friend whose background vocals lend the songs an additional dramatic punch.
For all the new ground the Mountain Goats cover, they still play to their strengths. There are belt-along anthems like “Armies of the Lord,” whose stately slow-build seems designed to get hearts racing during their famed live show. There’s poignant storytelling like the hushed “Peru,” whose pastoral imagery offers a rare moment of respite amid the destruction. For the diehards, there are also crucial references to the band’s back catalog: The boombox-era deep cut “Lady From Shanghai” gets a belated sequel that will make you reconsider the stakes of its previous entry (and admire just how virtuosic this band has become).
As the story evolves from its opening overture—the first instrumental track to ever appear on a Mountain Goats album—the band guides us through the journey’s humble beginnings and the ensuing chaos, disappearances, and acceptance of fate. Occasionally, the writing feels as formalist and poetic as Darnielle, a National Book Award-nominated novelist, has ever achieved: “Lightly row but this much I know/The first thing you learn will be the first thing to go,” he sings in the brisk, catchy “Cold at Night.” In “The Lady From Shanghai 2,” the band sets a sophisticated groove that makes the ambition of its narrator feel precarious, possibly doomed from the beginning. “When I was a young man I sought out the sky,” he sings uneasily. Even within the record’s tight, chronological frame, Darnielle leaves space for interpretation, questions that linger after the narrative is over.
“That’s something that I like,” he says. “Details that, generally speaking, only I will know about. So you try to let the music evoke that very personal thing without it being a confessional song.”
Working at Dreamland Recording Studios in Hudson, New York, the Mountain Goats have crafted a record that matches the emotional vulnerability of their previous career peaks while filling up a larger space than ever. The performances are so compelling that it may take a few listens to notice the surprising textures they weave in—synth, pedal steel, fretless bass—and the bold new chapter it marks in the band’s evolution. As he was writing, Darnielle envisioned a stage set with a few key props—parts of the ship, pieces of kelp—as each character delivered their songs in the forms of soliloquies. In the closing “Broken to Begin With,” one such character surveys his surroundings, not to lament his own bad fortune but to honor the fact that, even for a moment, this environment managed to shelter him at all. This may be like a bleak story to tell, a common thread of Mountain Goats concept albums all the way back to 2002’s breakthrough Tallahassee. But it speaks to a vision shared by the narrator and, increasingly, the restlessly creative trio presenting his tale: “Nothing’s ever promised to anyone,” Darnielle sings in “Fishing Boat.” “Everything you get is a gift.”

Nathan Pacheco - Higher Christmas 2025
2025-12-06 19:30 | The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, Idaho, 83702
Experience the wonder of the season with acclaimed tenor Nathan Pacheco in his 2025 holiday tour, “Emmanuel — Christmas 2025.” This unforgettable evening features beloved Christmas classics, fan favorites, and the highly anticipated debut of his powerful new single, “The King Emmanuel.” With soaring vocals and a deeply moving performance, Nathan brings the true spirit of Christmas to life in a concert that will uplift, inspire, and delight the whole family. Nathan will be joined by world-class musicians: Jared Pierce on piano and Nicole Pinnell on cello.

Music Theater of Idaho Presents: A Christmas Carol
2025-12-06 19:30, 2025-12-06 13:30 | Nampa Civic Center, 311 3rd Street South, Nampa, Idaho, 83651
Ebenezer Scrooge is a prosperous curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth is far more valuable than the happiness and comfort of others. With an infuriated “Bah! Humbug!” Scrooge summates his feelings of Christmas tidings and charitable giving, but he’s forced to face his selfish ways when three ghosts on Christmas Eve lead him through his Past, Present and Future. Thanks to their guidance, Scrooge recognizes his faults and greets Christmas morning with a cheerful “Happy Christmas” before spending the day reconnecting and sharing love with those that mean the most to him.

Chase Matthew
2025-12-06 19:00 | Revolution Concert House, 4983 N Glenwood St, Garden City, Idaho, 83714
Chase Matthew

Dec 6, 2025
Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM

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