Reactions/Responses/Reviews of productions at LTA Member Theaters.
By Dylan Warren The Play That Goes Wrong, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Friday May 3, 2024 …Is what you’ll cry out as you die from laughter at this brilliant work of live theater comedy. You may be familiar with The Goes Wrong Show on Amazon Prime Video but I can promise you it doesn’t hold a…
By Andy Dillehay The Table, Nebraska Communities Playhouse, May 3, 2024 There is something spectacular about seeing the world premier of a new work. Particularly when it’s in your own backyard. Including themes of camaraderie, community, and connection, it was quite fitting for The Table to make its debut at a community theatre, the Nebraska…
By Andy Dillehay Big Fish, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, April 25, 2024 Nebraska Repertory Theatre ends its 2023-2024 Season in a most whimsical way. In collaboration with UNL Opera, Big Fish is an innovative take on the beloved novel by Daniel Wallace, later adapted for the screen by John August and Tim Burton. Directed and choreographed by Ann Marie…
by Amber C. Nore Always… Pasty Cline, TADA Theatre, Thursday, Aril, 11, 2024 Dear Theatre Goer, I had the joy of attending the opening night performance of Always… Patsy Cline at TADA Theatre. This charming show, written and created by Ted Swindley, tells the real life story of how Louise Seger from Houston, TX befriends…
By Jamie Bullins Mean Girls, The Lied Center for Performing Arts, April 13, 2024, 7:30 PM “Calling somebody else fat won’t make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn’t make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George’s life definitely didn’t make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the…
By Dylan Warren Peter and the Starcatcher, Community Players in Beatrice, April 5, 2024 The best phrase I could use to describe Peter and the Starcatcher at Beatrice Community Players is “Happy Thoughts.” Quite the left turn from BCP’s last show Misery but a grand piece of entertainment for the whole family. Most know the…
By Andy Dillehay The Cher Show, The Lied Center for Performing Arts, April 3, 2024 If there’s one thing I know for certain, it’s that Cher is one of the most illustrious artists to ever grace this planet. She has always been uniquely and unapologetically Cher. While there have been countless impersonators and drag queen…
By Jamie Bullins Lofte Community Theatre, Friday, March 22, 2024, 7:00 pm. “It’s the journey.” And we enjoy every step, every quip, every character shift/swap. First, it will never grow old to drive up a dirt road and find this lovely, charming facility. Sweet folks at the door, even in the chilly air, and that snack bar, so well-staffed and such…
By Barb Dorn The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Nebraska Communities Playhouse, Hickman, NE, March 15, 2024 If you had the good fortune to see Young Frankenstein last fall at NCP, you will understand my overuse of superlatives for Hunchback. Great facility and accommodations, seating, refreshments, and ease of interacting with cast and crew. Same director,…
By Julia Doerr Cabaret, Lincoln Community Playhouse, March 1, 2024 So, three college students, a paraeducator, a health club manager, a retail outfitter, a training and experience manager, and a couple of folks who work in insurance all dance into a bar… … and as the ensemble who perform at Berlin’s fictional Kit Kat Klub,…