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…
by Julia Doerr A Christmas Carol, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Friday November 18, 2022 7:30PM As he did last year at this time, actor and Beatrice native Dick Terhune is starring at the Lincoln Community Playhouse in a one-man production of A Christmas Carol, by Patrick R. Spadaccino, an excellent adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. This is…
by Julia Doerr Godspell, TADA Theatre, Thursday October 13, 2022 7:30PM It was great to sit in a sold-out house for the opening night of Godspell at The TADA TheatreThursday evening. The cast was energetic and well-matched as an ensemble. No one performerstood out from the rest, making it a group of ten Everymen (and…
By Julia Doerr Our Town, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Wednesday April 13, 2022, 7PM There is possibly no more classic or quintessential American play than Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. It premiered in 1938 and is set in New Hampshire at the turn of the 20th century, specifically 1902-1913, but its themes are so universal that…
