Review: MARY POPPINS at Omaha Community Playhouse is Perfect Family Fun!
Flying into the Omaha Community Theatre with parrot umbrella and a satchel of tricks in hand, MARY POPPINS instantly enthralls her appreciative audience.…
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Review: DIAL M FOR MURDER at Omaha Community Playhouse Keeps You on Your Toes!
When you think of DIAL M FOR MURDER, you may be old enough to remember Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful movie starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland in 1954. If the play is new to you, you will enjoy Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of Frederick Knott’s screenplay on a more modern level. Either way, thi…
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL is Next to Perfection at SNAP! Productions
At first glance, Next to Normal is the quintessential domestic scenario. We see a suburban family with a seemingly normal life in “Just Another Day.” Diana is the perfect wife, has the perfect husband (albeit he can be a bit boring,) and an angsty teenage daughter who feels invisible. It’s t…
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at SNAP! Productions Will Take You on a Wild Ride
SNAP! Productions has booked us a seat on a roller coaster and it’s an extreme ride! Hang on, because the ups and downs will leave you breathless! Read the review here.…
Review: THUNDER AND TURF: ONCE UPON A TIME IN IRELAND at Brigit Saint Brigit
Brigit Saint Brigit never fails to roll out theatre unlike any other community theatre in the metro. It is impossible to attend without being educated while being entertained. Their most recent offering is THUNDER AND TURF: ONCE UPON A TIME IN IRELAND.…
Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at Bellevue Little Theatre is Bigger Than Life
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF now playing at the Bellevue Little Theatre is a big production in a small space and it does not disappoint! Director Laureen Pickle with her creative crew has pulled off an incredible piece of theatre with all the heart and soul of a big Broadway production. You need to see it to…
Review: ALICE BY HEART at Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre
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…
Review: THE CHOIR OF MAN at The Arts Center At Iowa Western
What did our critic think of THE CHOIR OF MAN at The Arts Center At Iowa Western?…
Review: HAIR at Omaha Community Playhouse: Peace Isn't Easy
Omaha Community Playhouse's HAIR delivers a magnetic, immersive 1960s experience with standout vocals, vibrant choreography, and themes that still provoke today.…
Review: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE at Orpheum Theatre
What did our critic think of A BEAUTIFUL NOISE at Orpheum Theatre?…
Past Shows
The Good Doctor
If laughter is the best medicine, Neil Simon prescribes us a powerful dose of Chekhov. This play's writer/narrator deals with his writer's block by hopping...
In Sorrow's Guise: An Immersive Medea
Ancient Greece glances off film noir in this Golden Age of Hollywood retelling of the classic Greek story of a womans revenge. Audience and actors...
Seussical
The Seussian world is family friendly without being just for kids. Everyone will enjoy the complex and intriguing worlds the cat pulls from his hat...
Three Sisters
Planted for 11 years in the Russian countryside, the Prozorov sisters long to blossom again in metropolitan Moscow. But weedy compulsions keep tangling up their...
Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow
You can drink your Chekhov straight (Three Sisters), or with a twist. This howlingly funny production features the same cast as NWUs Three Sisters in...
Little Women
For a budding writer like Jo, making it big means moving far beyond the March familys smallness. But, as her sisters and her love interests...
Bondagers
For the Scottish women who work in bondage to powerful farmers, injustice and hardship grow like vines. These resilient women must bond together to root...
A Christmas Carol
You know the characters of this Dickens' Christmas classic. What if Dickens’ message wasn’t intended just for Scrooge, and wasn’t limited to one holiday? This...
A Shayna Maidel
Two sisters are separated by an ocean, a war and a concentration camps razor wire. Even after a haunted Lusia and a guilty Rose reunite...
Measure for Measure
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Moralists set immoral traps in this play that stands in the grey among drama, comedy and tragedy....
Hello, Dolly!
Say hello to one of the greatest musicals of the Golden Age. This Broadway classic brims with romance, dance and some of the best songs...
Head Over Heels
NWU is head over heels to have James Newman, artistic director of the Santa Rosa Repertory Theatre Festival, on campus to direct this hilarious, exuberant...
Glengarry Glen Ross
In the zero-sum world of Chicago real estate, selling the American dream can be a caustic, darkly comic American nightmare. This unique production features two...
The Wolves
You've never seen inside a wolfpack like this. Warm up with the nine fierce girls on this raw-talking indoor soccer team and get a feel...
NEWSIES
Catch NWU's first Disney production. Jack Kelly is a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenage New York newsies. When Joseph Pulitzer raises...
Footloose
There's never been dancing in the town of Bomont. Nor has there been a kid like Ren McCormack. Something's got to give. New York artist...
The Robber Bridegroom
Bluegrass meets Broadway. Identities collapse in this barn-raisin' Southern thrill of a good time set in 18th-century Mississippi....
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
For young Christopher, math is an open book and people a murky mystery. When the neighbor's do is killed with a garden fork, Christopher investigates...
Nell Gwynn
A woman acting? On stage? Nell is the first woman allowed in King Charles II's company of actors. Her presence--and her performance--on the London stage...
Applause! Applause! Reboot
Back by popular demand, this musical review is reminiscent of past Applause! Applause! and Broadway Jukebox productions. Audience members spin a wheel to determine the...
One-Ham Manlet
Watch one actor play 20 characters in this adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Is there a "method to this madness," or is it "something rotten"? Come...
Xanadu
Sonny Malone is deeply dissatisfied by his life as a Venice Beach sidewalk artist--until Clio, a timeless Greek muse, makes it her mission to inspire...
Hamlet
Shakespeare's most complex work requires the simplest plug: Come see the greatest play ever written. Presented in the Miller Lab Theatre....
Mamma Mia!
Sophie wants nothing more than to have her father walk her down the aisle for her traditional Greek wedding. But who is her father? NWU...
A Christmas Carol
This unique, 60-minute adaptation of the Dickens classic is enjoyed by all, but written for children, grade 6 and younger. Tickets are just $2 per...
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Fans still talk about the time--20 years ago--when James Dean came to Marfa, Texas, to shoot a movie. But memory, truth and desire are three...
Julius Caesar
Forget the togas. Wecome to "New Rome," an authoritarian republic risen from the ashes of an unidentified apocalypse. This unique adaptation promises gender-blind casting with...
FeaturedThe Drowsy Chaperone
Join the "man in the chair," a huge fan of Broadway, as he shares his favorite (fictional) musical, "The Drowsy Chaperone." The show comes to...
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James and the Giant Peach Nebraska Communities Playhouse (6/19-6/28) |
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella Lofte Community Theatre (7/18-8/02) |
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Underdog: The Other, Other Bronte Enid Miller Theatre (10/02-10/11) |
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The Producers Nebraska Communities Playhouse (2/19-3/07) |
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Arsenic and Old Lace Lofte Community Theatre (10/16-10/25) |
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Jekyll & Hyde Nebraska Communities Playhouse (10/16-10/25) |
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (Florida) Outdoors - Old Main Amphitheatre (4/01-4/11) |
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Anything Goes (2022 Revision) Nebraska Communities Playhouse (8/21-8/30) |
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Eureka Day Enid Miller Theatre (2/18-2/21) |
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Sister Act Annie L. McDonald Theatre (10/29-11/08) |
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