By Regina Hinkley Tigers Be Still, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Friday February 20, 2026 “I want to do something so incredible that my life might not be this like, terrible thing, but I don’t know what that thing is.” Stepping into Tigers Be Still at the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, one is immediately struck by the setting….
By Regina Hinkley Murder on the Orient Express, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Thursday November 13, 2025 Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is perhaps one of the British author’s more well known intellectual properties. Sitting as the most translated author of all time with 66 novels, the best selling book of all-time (And Then There…
By Julia Doerr Eurydice, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Thursday October 2, 2025 Nebraska Repertory Theatre’s current production of “Eurydice” is for the audience 90 minutes very well spent. Playwright Sarah Ruhl has created a new look at the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice that focuses on the experience of Eurydice. In my previous readings of…
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 Julia Doerr Shakespeare’s R&J, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Thursday February 27, 2025 I was under the impression, as I signed on to review Shakespeare’s R & J at the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, that it was “a gay version” of Romeo and Juliet. That is not quite right. In spite of the male-on-male kissing and other…
By Andy Dillehay Big Fish, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, April 25, 2024 Nebraska Repertory Theatre ends its 2023-2024 Season in a most whimsical way. In collaboration with UNL Opera, Big Fish is an innovative take on the beloved novel by Daniel Wallace, later adapted for the screen by John August and Tim Burton. Directed and choreographed by Ann Marie…
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…