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Other Desert Cities
1/16 - 2/1/2026
A wealthy Wyeth family in Palm Springs, whose Christmas reunion is upended when daughter Brooke announces she's writing a tell-all memoir exposing a painful family secret, ...
The Gas Heart
1/29 - 2/8/2026
Written in response to the political unrest that followed World War I, The Gas Heart is one of the most famous avant-garde plays ever performed. ...
Quiz
2/13 - 2/22/2026
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 ...
EVERY BRILLIANT THING by Duncan Macmillan
3/20 - 3/29/2026
An interactive theatre piece where the audience and the lead player tell stories about the struggles of life and all that is sweet in it. A ...
You Can't Take It With You
3/20 - 3/29/2026
You Can’t Take It With You was one of the most popular plays of its time, winning the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
3/26 - 4/12/2026
If you think life, love and reality are simple things—you’re living in a midsummer night’s dream. Enter the forest where Shakespeare first coined the concept ...
The Cottage
4/10 - 4/19/2026
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 ...
Making God Laugh
5/1 - 5/10/2026
Making God Laugh follows one typical American family over the course of thirty years' worth of holidays. Starting in 1980, Ruthie and Bill's grown children ...
A Few Good Men
9/4 - 9/13/2026
Aaron Sorkin’s groundbreaking debut tells the story of a group of military lawyers assigned to defend two Marines in Guantanamo Bay. During the course of ...
Arsenic and Old Lace
10/16 - 10/25/2026
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s life is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha ...
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Latest Omaha Reviews
Review: OTHER DESERT CITIES at Bellevue Little Theatre Packs a Punch
by Christine Swerczek - January 17, 2026
What did our critic think of OTHER DESERT CITIES at Bellevue Little Theatre?...
Review: THE PIANO LESSON at Omaha Community Playhouse is On Key
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....
Review: MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY at Enid Miller Lab Theatre, Nebraska Wesleyan University
by Christine Swerczek - November 07, 2025
For an utterly charming evening, head to the intimate Enid Miller Lab Theatre at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. You won't be disappointed....
Review: DOUBT: A PARABLE at Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre Co.
by Christine Swerczek - September 28, 2025
What did our critic think of DOUBT: A PARABLE at Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre Co.?...
Review: GREASE at Omaha Community Playhouse
by Analisa Swerczek - September 23, 2025
The Omaha Community Playhouse’s production of Grease, directed by Vincent Orduña , is a high-energy celebration of teen spirit and rock ‘n’ roll at Rydell High....
Review: PIVOT at Shelterbelt Theatre
by Analisa Swerczek - September 06, 2025
Pivot, written by Alex Lubischer, is a beautifully real portrayal of the ways we handle grief and handle each other in those moments where nothing seems to makes sense anymore....
Review: THE RIVER BRIDE at Omaha Community Playhouse Makes Magic
by Christine Swerczek - August 16, 2025
What did our critic think of THE RIVER BRIDE at Omaha Community Playhouse? Omaha Community Playhouse has once again delivered up something new and different---a story built on Brazilian folklore. THE RIVER BRIDE running from August 15 through September 14 in the Howard Drew Theatre is one that leave...
Review: END OF THE RAINBOW IS STUNNING! at Performing Artists Repertory Theatre
by Christine Swerczek - August 06, 2025
END OF THE RAINBOW, the story of iconic Judy Garland’s last months of her short 47 years will throw you for a loop. There was no quiet or peace in her tumultuous life of pain, pills and booze. Not matter how talented this woman was, she could not “Get Happy.”...
Review: FANTASTIC MR. FOX at Opera Omaha is FUN-tastic!
by Christine Swerczek - June 05, 2025
Based on the popular classic children’s tale by Roald Dahl, Tobias Picker composed a three act opera with libretto by Donald Sturrock. The chamber version for a seven piece orchestra was arranged by Francesco Cilluffo. Opera Omaha’s production is directed and imagined by Alison Moritz....
Review: All Hands on Deck for TITANIC, THE MUSICAL at Omaha Community Playhouse!
by Christine Swerczek - June 02, 2025
Full speed ahead! The Omaha Community Playhouse has taken to the water with a 1997 Tony Award winning musical, TITANIC, THE MUSICAL. An ambitious undertaking based on actual events of the April 15, 1912 maiden voyage of the unsinkable RMS TITANIC, the musical displays humanity in all its shades when...
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Guys and Dolls
Nebraska Communities Playhouse (2/13 - 2/22) | |
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EVERY BRILLIANT THING by Duncan Macmillan
PART THEATRE (3/20 - 3/29) | |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour)
Orpheum Theater Omaha (3/25 - 3/29) | |
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A Beautiful Noise
Orpheum Theater Omaha (2/10 - 2/15) | |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Enid Miller Theatre (3/26 - 4/12) | |
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AN ACT OF GOD
PART THEATRE (2/13 - 2/22) | |
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Zach Bryan, Kings of Leon & J.R. Carroll
Memorial Stadium (4/25 - 4/25) | |
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Christmas at Leon's
Lofte Community Theatre (12/5 - 12/20) | |
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