By Rachele Stoops Tuck Everlasting,The Stage Theater (Nebraska Communities Playhouse,) Thursday September 29, 2022, 7:30PM Remember in sixth grade language arts class, when instead of reading whole books you’d read those little teasers from a textbook full of three or four page excerpts of stories, and since there wasn’t any internet, the only way to…
By Rachele Stoops Nebraska Communities Playhouse (The Stage Theater), Thursday July 14, 2022. When Roald Dahl’s first children’s book was published in 1943, it was wartime. Germany began bombing English cities in 1941, and many children in those cities were sent to live with strangers in the countryside, to keep them safe. Maybe Dahl, a…
By Rachele Stoops Lincoln Community Playhouse, Friday June 10, 2022 Decades ago, to complete my college theatre major, I rehearsed and performed a one-person play. At the end of one performance, a friend in the audience remarked that the whole time she had been marveling at how much I had had to memorize. I’m pretty…
By Rachele Stoops Riverdance 25 at The Lied Center, Tuesday March 8, 2022 7:30PM On an episode of the TV show Friends, Chandler’s biggest fear is outed during a quiz game he and the others are playing. He’s terrified of Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance, because “his legs flail about as if independent of…
By Rachele Stoops Beatrice Community Players, Friday February 11, 2022 7:30PM A kid can learn a lot from a board game. Especially when that board game was created in England in 1943, and the vocabulary is a little different than what you might run into playing Candyland or Chutes and Ladders. Scarlet? Conservatory? Billiards? All…
By Rachele Stoops Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Friday, October 21, 2021 7:30 pm. Halloween is not my favorite holiday. Sure, I like dressing up in costumes and buying candy for 50% off the day after, but anyone who knows me would never expect to find me at a haunted house. I do enjoy Shakespeare, however, as…
