By Lisa Steiner Sweeney Todd, Community Players in Beatrice, Friday October 24, 2025 When you enter the auditorium at Community Players in Beatrice, you are instantly drawn into 19th Century London’s Fleet Street, home to Sweeney Todd’s Tonsorial Parlour and Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop, the setting for the tale of Sweeney Todd. As the lights…
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 The Music Man, Community Players, June 16, 2023 It’s the classic musical plotline: guy meets girl, guy tries to woo girl for his own ulterior motives, girl falls in love with guy (against her better judgment), and KAPOW: guy transforms into an upstanding citizen. Art imitating life, amiright? Fortunately for the sold…
By Jamie Bullins Community Players, Friday, June 10, 2022, 7:30 pm. Melodrama is a tried-and-true genre of the theatre which has been around since the 19th century and paints with big strokes that include big characters with big problems, and always comes around in the good guy’s favor. Something that’s particularly comforting today. This one…
By Tim Andersen and Megan Fangmeyer Beatrice Community Players, December 3, 2021 7:30 PM Elf the Musical follows the story of Buddy, a human, who believes he is one of Santa’s elves. Upon learning that he is a human, Santa suggests he find his real father in a place very unlike the North Pole……