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 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 Lisa Steiner Annie, The Lied Center for Performing Arts, Thursday March 20, 2025 The Lied Center for Performing Arts is wrapping up its 2024-2025 Broadway season with Annie, the story of three go-getting New Yorkers, including a non-profit owner and two entrepreneurs, just trying to make it in the world, who get foiled by…
By Lisa Steiner The China Shop, Lincoln Community Playhouse, November 9, 2024 Lincoln Community Playhouse is producing the World Premier of The China Shop, written by Richard Manley. This is a part of the American Association of Community Theatre’s NewPlayFest 2024. This festival allows new playwrights an opportunity to get their work from page to…
by Leah Arington Anastasia: The Broadway Musical, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Friday August 16, 2024 Opening night of Anastasia was a delight from beginning to end. The only thing missing was the dog 🙂 (not included in the musical version). This ensemble show was well executed by Director, Michelle Colette Ingle and Choreographer, Karen Freimund Wills….
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 Lisa Steiner Sense and Sensibility, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Thursday September 28, 2023 The Nebraska Repertory Theatre opened its 53rd Season to a full house last night with an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. The updated script was written by Kate Hamill, who also adapted the production of Pride & Prejudice seen at…
By Katie Pynes Anetsberger Into The Woods, The Nebraska Communities Playhouse, April 28, 2023 7:30PM I may be the last person in the theatre world to attend a performance of Into the Woods, but I’m grateful that this was my first experience. I think I’ve seen just about every cast member of this production in…
By Lisa Steiner Stop Kiss, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Wednesday March 1, 2023 The Nebraska Repertory Theater has opened its run of Stop Kiss, a story about two young women in New York City figuring out how they fit into one another’s lives. Written by Diana Son, Stop Kiss was originally produced Off-Broadway in 1998. We…
By Lisa Steiner The Mountaintop, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Friday January 27, 2023 As I sit down to write this review, I don’t really even have much to say. I don’t really even want to say much; but not because it doesn’t deserve high praise. This is not an example of “if you don’t have anything…