By Lisa Steiner Urinetown The Musical, Nebraska Repertory Theater, Thursday April 24, 2025 The Nebraska Repertory Theater is putting on the oddly-named Urinetown The Musical this weekend and next and may I say it is a hoot! The show that calls its own title bad is highly aware of itself and isn’t afraid to let…
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 Jamie Bullins Angels Theatre Company, Thursday, February 15, 2024 Great Plains premier of a new play, I Carry Your Heart with Me, by Jennifer Blackmer. Spontaneous, intimate, immediate, ephemeral. Let me start by saying I might be just the tiniest bit biased. Partial? Probably. I have been involved with this project since the start. Conversation…
by Julia Doerr Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Lincoln Community Playhouse, March 10, 2023 If you’ll excuse this cliché, don’t walk; run to get your tickets to see LCP’s current production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It is remarkably well-done in every aspect. I have always found the…
Lincoln Community Playhouse will present Sweeney Todd March 10-12 and 17-19. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, Sweeney Todd is considered one of the masterworks of Broadway. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students and can be reserved at lincolnplayhouse.com or by calling the box office at 402-489-7529 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00…
Lincoln Community Playhouse invites actors to audition for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on December 12th and 13th from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the Playhouse. Callbacks will be December 14th from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Auditionees can sign up for a one-hour time slot at the link below starting November 14th. https://www.lincolnplayhouse.com/auditions/ Actors should prepare a vocal solo of 32 bars of classic…
By Sheri Berger Perfect Arrangement, Theatrix, Thursday November 3, 2022 7:30PM Theatrix is one of my favorite stages. I love the creative energy there, brimming with enthusiasm and a passion for theatre. Perfect Arrangement by Topher Payne is the perfect play for this student-run theatre to present in this space. It is full of laughs,…
By Sheri Berger Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Lab Theatre, Saturday March 26, 2022 7:30PM Traveling Shoes, brought to us by the partnership Nebraska Repertory Theatre has with the St. Louis Black Repertory Company, is an evening filled with energy, powerful poetry, prose, and chants interwoven with music and dance. The music varied eras and circumstances, from…
