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 Andy Dillehay The Flick, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, February 29, 2024 Nebraska Repertory Theatre’s production of The Flick by Annie Baker, is a compelling exploration of the mundane, yet complex, lives of Avery, Rose, and Sam, employees of a rundown movie theater in Massachusetts. Set against the backdrop of the digital age, the play cleverly…
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 Jamie Bullins 9 to 5, Lofte Community Theatre, Saturday, July 15, 2023, 7:00 pm. There may not be a lot going on in Manley, NE. It’s not a hopping metropolis most likely. Now, this is actually only like the third time I’ve ever set foot in Manley, so, I don’t want to judge it…
Angels Theatre Company (ATC) is pleased to present the Eighth Annual First Flight Festival, featuring the work of the Angels Playwriting Collective. The First Flight Festival opens July 13, 2023 in the Studio Theatre at UNL’s Temple Building. All the plays are new original short plays or monologues written by members of the Angels Playwriting…
By Jamie Bullins Puffs, Community Players, Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:30 pm. I used to be on the faculty at The University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance. It was quite some time ago, but I still have friends there. Puffs was on my radar of upcoming works from back in 2016 when it…
Auditions for Godspell Sr., the next production of the Playhouse’s Radio Active Players, will be February 14 and 16 beginning at 12:30 p.m. at the Playhouse. Actors ages 50 and over are encouraged to participate and bring a prepared song of 36 measures to auditions. An accompanist will be provided, please bring sheet music. There will also be readings from the…
Nebraska Communities Playhouse, Friday, December 16, 2022, 7:30 pm. Ok, the Scroogish façade I wear is a bit thin. Secretly Christmas is my favorite time of the year. According to Bill Murray, it’s the one time of the year “we are the people that we always hoped we would be.” And if you haven’t seen…
By Jamie Bullins Beatrice Community Players, Friday, December 9, 2022, 7:30 pm. It’s not Christmas, really, until A Christmas Story comes back around, in some form or another. When I took a walk through the neighborhood the other night and saw the “soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window” featured in the upstairs…
