BLUEBARN Teams with ENOA for Giving HeARTS Tree

Susan Clement-Toberer, artistic director of the BLUEBARN Theatre, announced today that the theatre will once again team with the Eastern Nebraska Office on Aging to raise awareness of the needs of the elderly this holiday season. A Giving HeARTS Tree will stand in the lobby of the theatre during performances of BLUEBARN's holiday show, Silent Night of the Lambs. Ornaments containing gift wishes of ENOA clients will be hanging in the theatre's lobby. BLUEBARN invites their audience to become an elf for the elderly by fulfilling their gift wishes this holiday season.

"The Giving HeARTS Tree is BLUEBARN's way of giving back to a community that has been so generous to us since our founding in 1989," said Clement-Toberer. This will be the second year that the BLUEBARN has participated in the Giving HeARTS Tree program.

The BLUEBARN Theatre was established in the late 1980s with graduates from the Professional Theatre Training Conservatory at the State University of New York at Purchase. Seeking to continue the deeply shared artistic aesthetic and practIce That they had developed from their conservatory training, and also create theatre outside the constraints of New York City's commercial market, founding members Mary Theresa Green, Nils Haaland, Kevin Lawler, and Hughston Walkinshaw joined forces with Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts to produce their first play.

In 1998, the 10th anniversary season, the BLUEBARN moved into its current home, a beautiful ninety-seat proscenium arch theatre in Omaha's Old Market. The BLUEBARN also opened the Abbott/Pinkoff Gallery, providing local visual artists a place to display their work.

Now in its 21st season, the BLUEBARN has established itself as Omaha's premier contemporary theatre company. After producing over 80 plays since 1989, the BLUEBARN's reputation for high quality entertainment and pursuit of stories that challenge both the theatre artists and patrons is solid.

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