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 Rachele Stoops and Micayla Brown Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, November 9, 2023 Please enjoy this video review of Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play at Nebraska Repertory Theatre, running in the Studio Theater of the Temple Building, November 9-18, 2023! Ticket information at https://nebraskarep.org. (Update: Performances are sold out, with an…
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…
Hank Stratton, head of acting/musical theatre at the University of Arizona and the artistic director of the Arizona Repertory Theatre, has been named the director of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and executive director of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. He begins his appointment Aug. 1. “I’m thrilled to have…
By Sam Pynes The Play That Goes Wrong, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Wednesday May 3, 2023 7:30PM Dear Mr. Editor, I am so sorry that this review is so late. I hope I catch you before you go to print. Please cut this part out. I tripped over a dog outside the theater last night which…
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 Chris Berger Bread and Puppet Theatre’s The Apocalypse Defiance Circus, Hosted by Nebraska Repertory Theatre at Kimball Recital Hall at UNL, Thursday October 6, 2022 7:30PM There were going to be puppets, so of course I had to go! This one-night performance of Bread & Puppet’s The Apocalypse Defiance Circus at The Kimball Recital…
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…
By Sheri Berger Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Lab Theatre, Saturday March 26, 2022 7:30PM Traveling Shoes, brought to us by the partnership Nebraska Repertory Theatre has with the St. Louis Black Repertory Company, is an evening filled with energy, powerful poetry, prose, and chants interwoven with music and dance. The music varied eras and circumstances, from…
