By Amber C. Nore Eminent Domain, Angels Theatre Company, Thursday March 20, 2025 Sitting in my chair at the Angels Theatre Company debut production of Eminent Domain by Nebraska playwright Laura Leininger-Campbell, I was taken back to my childhood memories of my grandparents’ farm. Rising from center stage was a beautiful eggshell-colored farmhouse, complete with…
By Sam Pynes Predictor, The Johnny Carson Theater in the Lied Center, Angels Theatre Company, February 9, 2023, Final Dress Rehearsal Today is yet another world premiere of a new play in Lincoln. What an exciting time! The playwright, Jennifer Blackmer, was in the Carson Theater for this final dress rehearsal, and Meg Crane herself…
By Sam Pynes Dove, Angels Theatre Company, Tuesday September 13, 2022, 7:30 Final Dress Rehearsal Seeing new theatre is so exciting, but it is especially thrilling to see it written and so well-produced in your own backyard. That’s right folks, brand new theatre is being produced, not just on the East and West Coast, but…
Angels Theatre Company presents the Regional Premiere of DOVE by Brigid Amos September 14-16, 2022 7:30 PMSeptember 18 2:00 PMJohnny Carson Theater at The Lied Center Effie and Grant’s eight-year-old daughter Dove was killed when a chain broke on a carnival swing ride. Effie shuts down emotionally, avoids saying Dove’s name, and buries herself in…
By Sam Pynes This Mortal Life Also, Angels Theatre Company The Johnny Carson Theater at The Lied Center March 16th 7:30PM I had the honor of attending the preview performance of Nancy Shank’s This Mortal Life Also, which tells the fascinating and dramatic story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a central figure of the German Resistance during…