the festival serves more than 105,000 individuals annually, providing professional performance, arts education, and outreach programs to diverse constituencies in the idaho area. the festival, celebrating its 33rd year in 2009, enjoys strong attendance, critical acclaim, and loyal community support. the festival's outdoor amphitheater seats 770, and is surrounded by a beautiful habitat reserve home to several plant and animal species such as water birds, deer, hereon, ducks, geese and an occasional fox. in order to maintain this natural habitat, the festival operates under an agreement with the idaho foundation for parks and lands and the idaho department of parks and recreation. a typical season at the outdoor amphitheatre consists of five to six mainstage productions from june through september for audiences exceeding 53,000 in the 2008 season, as well as several performances by the festival's drama camps and apprentice program.
