Searching for Answers in ‘A Bright New Boise’

The Idaho-bred, New York-based playwright Samuel D. Hunter has maintained as positive a view of humanity as one could expect from anybody of his intelligence — and that, clearly, has something to do with faith.

Joan Marcus
Peter Mark Kendall and Ignacio Diaz-Silverio in ‘A Bright New Boise.’ Joan Marcus

Samuel D. Hunter’s Obie Award-winning play “A Bright New Boise,” which had its premiere in 2010 and is now being produced for the first time off-Broadway, is often billed as a dark comedy, a term that is perhaps misleading here, or at least incomplete.

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