About the Theatre
OUR MISSION
Community Players engages and enriches Southeast Nebraska through the arts by deepening connections, utilizing inclusive programming, and producing quality live theatre.
VALUES STATEMENTS
Professionalism | Comes by maintaining the highest quality and standards in our productions, providing a consistent and polished experience for all patrons and volunteers, and utilizing the latest best practices in all aspects of the administration and business management of the organization.
Involvement | We work to provide a welcoming atmosphere for new volunteers and patrons, showing ongoing appreciation of work, treating all those involved with the organization fairly, and by providing opportunities to provide collaborative feedback for improving the organization.
Impact | We impact the lives of young people through our growing educational programs, provide creative and artistic outlets to all ages, and enlighten the community connecting our productions to broader themes and issues. These efforts enhance the economy and quality of life throughout the community and region.
Innovation | Through ongoing education and development opportunities for staff, board and volunteers we proactively make use of the latest technologies, trends, and concepts allowing us to continually evaluate and diversify our programing to address the needs of our community.
Upcoming Shows
It’s 1923 in an English country house, but no one here will mind their upper-crust manners. Sylvia and Beau are in the midst of their...
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone she meets! Determined to find the parents that abandoned her years ago, it’s...
by Christine Swerczek - February 24, 2026
Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre’s current production of ALICE BY HEART explores a teenager's coping with grief and the realism of war-torn London through fantasy. The musical based on the 1865 children’s classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is written by Steven Sater and Jessi...
by Christine Swerczek - February 22, 2026
What did our critic think of THE CHOIR OF MAN at The Arts Center At Iowa Western?...
by Christine Swerczek - February 14, 2026
Omaha Community Playhouse's HAIR delivers a magnetic, immersive 1960s experience with standout vocals, vibrant choreography, and themes that still provoke today....
by Christine Swerczek - February 11, 2026
What did our critic think of A BEAUTIFUL NOISE at Orpheum Theatre?...
by Christine Swerczek - January 17, 2026
What did our critic think of OTHER DESERT CITIES at Bellevue Little Theatre?...
by Christine Swerczek - January 16, 2026
Omaha Community Playhouse has opened their 2026 season with a heavy hitting winner. August Wilson’s THE PIANO LESSON won a 1990 Pulitzer and was nominated in five categories for a Tony Award....
Past Shows
April 2003. Army Major Charles Ingram, his wife, and a coughing accomplice have been convicted of cheating on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The evidence is...
One man brings over thirty of Charles Dickens’s most memorable characters to life in this breathtaking adaptation of the timeless holiday classic. This nationally-touring production...
Enter the wardrobe with Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter and journey to Narnia, where the lion Aslan battles the White Witch for control of their...
On the hunt for a corrupt judge that stole his wife, wrongfully banished barber Sweeney Todd will stop at nothing for vengeance, so he forms...
Two suddenly single pals, one a sloppy sportswriter and the other a neurotic neat freak, strain their friendship when they turn into roommates. In Neil...
One of the most beloved musicals of all time! In Austria, 1938, an exuberant young governess brings music and joy back to the family of...
When a vengeful sorceress curses Hercules and threatens to plunge humanity into eternal darkness, the only thing standing in her way is Calliope, the demigod's...
Students Susan and Larry are guests at the mysterious Brabissant mansion, enticed there by its elderly caretakers. Struck by Susan’s resemblance to the long-dead daughter...
Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, sensible young man from a respectable family, and...
In this comic sequel to Pride & Prejudice, bookish middle sister Mary is the unlikely heroine. When the family gathers for Christmas at the manor, an...
Alda Best and her struggling theatre troupe must mount the melodrama of all melodramas to save their company in the midst of the Great Depression,...
This one-night(mare)-only event brings together malevolent monologues, spooky short stories, and creepy cuttings from Halloween-themed shows. Performed in the definitely-not-haunted basement of Community Players, witness...
Amalia and Georg, employees of a 1930s perfumery, don’t see eye to eye. After responding to a “lonely hearts advertisement,” they now live for the...
Home “sick” from school, Archer finds herself a captive audience for her dad’s latest masterpiece of a screenplay that’s full of wars in the stars...
Fast-talking salesman Harold Hill has arrived in River City, Iowa to con its residents into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he...
The fantastical plot of a mysterious book draws a bullied young boy deeper and deeper into its story. As he continues to read about the...
For seven years, a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is the story of the Puffs, who...
On the snowbound Orient Express, an American tycoon lies dead in his locked train compartment. With a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must...
In 1940s Indiana, there is no Christmas gift more sought after by a nine-year-old boy than a Red Ryder air rifle. Join Ralphie Parker and...
For Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty, things always work out “Happily Ever After,” until a group of fed-up villains reverse the clock to before...
Fans of The Golden Girls will fall for this comedy about a colorful group of assisted living residents who are desperately trying to plan a...
Follow four New Yorkers as they search for happiness, love, and a decent cab in this original musical for anyone whos ever struggled to appreciate...
Now that sound has come to motion pictures, Hollywood will never be the sameand neither will the careers of a trio of silent film stars...
Johnny Bloods life is on the line, so hes put his fate in the hands of a mysterious sheriff, an eccentric priest, a saloon girl...
All for one, and one for all! Young DArtagnan joins forces with the famous Three Musketeers to take on the deadly Cardinal Richelieu and defend...
Its a dark and stormy night, and every guest at this dinner party has an alias, the butler is well-stocked with weapons, and the host...
Unaware that hes really a human and not an elf, Buddy embarks on a journey to find his birth father and discover who he really...
When the sleepy town of Popcorn Falls is forced into bankruptcy and threatened to be turned into a sewage treatment facility, their only hope is...
Community Players, in collaboration with director/playwright Cecilia Rubino, is inviting audiences to reflect on the events that followed the tragic homicide of Helen Wilson in...
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