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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bluegrass meets Broadway. Identities collapse in this barn-raisin' Southern thrill of a good time set in 18th-century Mississippi....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Shakespeare's most complex work requires the simplest plug: Come see the greatest play ever written. Presented in the Miller Lab Theatre....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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