OCP Announces 2018-19 Alternative Programming Season

The Omaha Community Playhouse is announcing its Alternative Programming series for the 2018-19 season. Alternative Programming includes a series of staged readings, special events and play development collaborations. All events are held at OCP.

The 2018-19 Alternative Programming schedule includes:

EDGES

by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
July 9, 2018
Staged reading of a musical, Howard Drew Theatre
Directed by Kevin Goshorn and Caitlin Mabon, Music directed by Zachary Kloppenborg

This is the first show written by the creative minds behind Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman, and La La Land. It is a song-cycle about adults asking classic coming-of-age questions. The songs cover the universal issues of love, commitment, identity and meaning. The characters deal with confronting emotions, escaping expectations and deciphering complicated relationships.

LASSO OF TRUTH
by Carson Kreitzer
August 27, 2018
Staged reading, Howard Drew Theatre
Directed by Breanna Carodine

William Marston is a truly improbable character in American history - psychologist, author and inventor of both the lie detector and Wonder Woman. He was also a bondage enthusiast, a passion he shared with the two women he lived with in a large blended family: his wife Elizabeth and Olive Richards, his research assistant. This play tells the origin story of Wonder Woman, not only as an amazon princess and warrior, but as a comic book character and our preeminent female superhero.

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DISASTER

DISASTER!
by Seth Rudetsky, Jack Plotnick, and Drew Geraci
September 24, 2018
Staged reading of a musical, Hawks Mainstage Theatre
Directed by Mackenzie Dehmer, Music directed by Liz Stinman

Earthquakes, tidal waves, infernos and the unforgettable songs of the '70s take center stage in Broadway's side-splitting homage to classic disaster films. It's 1979 and New York's hottest A-listers are lining up for the opening of a floating casino and discotheque. What begins as a night of boogie fever turns to panic as the ship succumbs to multiple disasters. Featuring songs from Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Chicago, Orleans and more, this absurd sendup of '70s disaster flicks is as funny as it is ridiculous.

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FROM THE GROUND UP
Collaboration with Great Plains Theatre Conference
October 15, 2018
Special Event, Howard Drew Theatre
Directed by Kevin Lawler

Come share in the experience of seeing a workshopped performance of a brand new script. An official collaboration with the Great Plains Theatre Conference, From the Ground Up is a workshop that provides a safe and nurturing playground for artists to develop new work for the theatre. The playwright's material will be shared with an audience while still in the developmental phase then will continue to be developed to be included in the next Great Plains Theatre Conference.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
by George A. Romero and John A. Russo
October 29, 2018
Staged reading of a play, Howard Drew Theatre
Directed by Kaitlyn McClincy

Witness a theatrical adaptation of the classic horror film. Fall out from a satellite probe shot to Venus returns to Earth carrying a mysterious radiation that transforms the unburied dead into flesh-eating zombies. Seven people trapped in an isolated farmhouse, held hostage by the ravenous ghouls, begin to turn on each other as the dead encroach.

BOOK OF WILL
by Lauren Gunderson
February 25, 2019
Staged reading of a play, Howard Drew Theatre
Directed by Marie Amthor Schuett

Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn't have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet, but without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare's plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They'll just have to borrow, beg and band together to get it done.

DRAGON
by Jessica Austgen
April 29, 2019
Special Event, Hawks Mainstage Theatre
Director TBD

In this unique comedy, a fledgling drag queen must go through the tests and trials of legendary cosplay divas to find her swagger. An ode to both geek and drag cultures, this refreshingly original piece gives the audience a front row seat to what happens when you combine equal parts fantasy adventure, comic book convention, and drag show.

Alternative Programming events are free and open to the public with an opportunity for donations. No tickets or reservations are necessary. Some events may be intended for mature audiences. For more information on Alternative Programming, visit www.omahaplayhouse.com.

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