by Julia Doerr Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Friday May 2, 2025 Not too surprisingly, there was more than one Cinderella in the house at Friday’s opening of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version at the Lincoln Community Playhouse. Several little girls in tiaras came to the show, and at least one grown…
by Lisa Steiner Godspell, Community Players, Friday June 7, 2024 Community Players in Beatrice is closing out their 48th season with the ever-catchy Godspell, directed by Noelle McVicar. Telling parables from the Gospel of Matthew of Christian bible fame, Godspell takes an approach of theater and improv games for the company to teach the audience…
By Rachele Stoops Tuck Everlasting,The Stage Theater (Nebraska Communities Playhouse,) Thursday September 29, 2022, 7:30PM Remember in sixth grade language arts class, when instead of reading whole books you’d read those little teasers from a textbook full of three or four page excerpts of stories, and since there wasn’t any internet, the only way to…
By Rachele Stoops Nebraska Communities Playhouse (The Stage Theater), Thursday July 14, 2022. When Roald Dahl’s first children’s book was published in 1943, it was wartime. Germany began bombing English cities in 1941, and many children in those cities were sent to live with strangers in the countryside, to keep them safe. Maybe Dahl, a…
By Deanna Walz Noises Off, The Stage Theater, Saturday April 30, 2022 7:30PM There’s something magical about sitting in a theater and laughing with strangers. Not knowing what to expect and delighting in the thrill of discovering the jokes together. The audience of Noises Off at The Stage Theater in Hickman discovered that magic Saturday…
