By Rachele Stoops Misery, Community Players in Beatrice, Friday February 9, 2024 I’ve never seen the movie Misery (or read the book) – I know, I know! But I’ve picked up enoughfrom popular culture to think I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen. I did not. Community Players’ production of…
By Rachele Stoops Jesus Christ Superstar, The Lied Center for Performing Arts, Thursday, February 1, 2024 I don’t remember the first time my mom told me about the movie, Jesus Christ Superstar, or when I heard the music for the first time. It was probably in the womb. The movie came out in 1973, just a couple…
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 Rachele Stoops Space Princess Wars, Community Players, Thursday July 20, 2023 What do you get when you mash storylines from two wildly popular adventure movies together with forty-one or forty-two (I counted twice and got different numbers each time) extremely talented kids? Pretty much the best thing I’ve ever seen. Playwright Don Zolidis has…
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 Rachele Stoops The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Friday, May 5, 2023 It was a lovely spring evening when my husband and I joined the audience for the opening night performance of The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 at the Lincoln Community Playhouse, but on stage, snow (and death) was piling…
By Rachele Stoops Legally Blonde The Musical, The Lied Center, February 23, 2023 Confession time: this was not my first time in the audience of Legally Blonde The Musical. I’d attended more than one performance of this high energy musical when Southwest High School presented it in the spring of 2018: my daughter, Micayla, was…
by Amber Nore Murder on the Orient Express, Community Players, Thursday February 9, 2023, Final Dress Rehearsal Murder on the Orient Express is a stage adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie novel written and adapted by Ken Ludwig. It premiered in 2017 at the McCarter Center in New Jersey. Community theaters across the country were…
Auditions: Dec. 19, 20 at 7 p.m. Casting: 5 men, 5 womenGenders are as defined by the playwright. Community Players takes an inclusive stance towards casting. Production dates: Feb. 10-12, 17-19, 2023 What to do: Those auditioning will be asked to read from the script Directed by: Rachele Stoops About the show: On the snowbound…
By Rachele Stoops Pride and Prejudice, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Studio Theater, Friday October 21, 2022 7:30PM The Lincoln Community Playhouse‘s production of Pride and Prejudice, by Kate Hamill, was based on the novel we all read in high school. This is not, however, your English teacher’s Pride and Prejudice. (I know this, because I’m an…