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COMMUNITY PLAYERS, INC.

412 Ella Street
Beatrice, NE 68310
4022281801

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About the Theatre

OUR MISSION

Community Players engages and enriches Southeast Nebraska through the arts by deepening connections, utilizing inclusive programming, and producing quality live theatre.

 

VALUES STATEMENTS

Professionalism | Comes by maintaining the highest quality and standards in our productions, providing a consistent and polished experience for all patrons and volunteers, and utilizing the latest best practices in all aspects of the administration and business management of the organization.

Involvement | We work to provide a welcoming atmosphere for new volunteers and patrons, showing ongoing appreciation of work, treating all those involved with the organization fairly, and by providing opportunities to provide collaborative feedback for improving the organization.

Impact | We impact the lives of young people through our growing educational programs, provide creative and artistic outlets to all ages, and enlighten the community connecting our productions to broader themes and issues. These efforts enhance the economy and quality of life throughout the community and region.

Innovation | Through ongoing education and development opportunities for staff, board and volunteers we proactively make use of the latest technologies, trends, and concepts allowing us to continually evaluate and diversify our programing to address the needs of our community.

A Nightmare on Ella Street


This one-night(mare)-only event brings together malevolent monologues, spooky short stories, and creepy cuttings from Halloween-themed shows. Performed in the definitely-not-haunted basement of Community Players, witness ...

Melodramatics
Melodramatics
11/8 - 11/10/2024


Alda Best and her struggling theatre troupe must mount the melodrama of all melodramas to save their company in the midst of the Great Depression, ...

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley


In this comic sequel to Pride & Prejudice, bookish middle sister Mary is the unlikely heroine. When the family gathers for Christmas at the manor, an ...

The Addams Family
The Addams Family
2/14 - 2/23/2025


Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, sensible young man from a respectable family, and ...


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BroadwayWorld Omaha Awards; YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, THE MOUNTAINTOP, Lincoln Community Playhouse & More Lead!


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Past Shows

Mary Poppins
7/12 - 7/22/2024


The magical nanny Mary Poppins practically flies onto the stage in this captivating musical adaptation of the beloved children's story. When the dysfunctional Banks family, ...

Young Frankenstein
3/7 - 3/24/2024

She Loves Me
She Loves Me
12/8 - 12/17/2023


Amalia and Georg, employees of a 1930s perfumery, don’t see eye to eye. After responding to a “lonely hearts advertisement,” they now live for the ...

Newsies
7/13 - 7/30/2023


Read all about it! Paper Mill Playhouse is proud to present the premiere of a brand new musical, NEWSIES, adapted for the stage from the ...

Newsies
7/13 - 7/30/2023


Read all about it! Paper Mill Playhouse is proud to present the premiere of a brand new musical, NEWSIES, adapted for the stage from the ...

Space Princess Wars
Space Princess Wars
7/20 - 7/23/2023


Home “sick” from school, Archer finds herself a captive audience for her dad’s latest masterpiece of a screenplay that’s full of wars in the stars ...

The Music Man
The Music Man
6/9 - 6/18/2023


Fast-talking salesman Harold Hill has arrived in River City, Iowa to con its residents into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he ...

The NeverEnding Story
The NeverEnding Story
5/5 - 5/7/2023


The fantastical plot of a mysterious book draws a bullied young boy deeper and deeper into its story. As he continues to read about the ...

Puffs
Puffs
3/24 - 4/2/2023


For seven years, a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is the story of the Puffs, who ...

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
2/10 - 2/19/2023


On the snowbound Orient Express, an American tycoon lies dead in his locked train compartment. With a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must ...

A Christmas Story: the Musical
A Christmas Story: the Musical
12/9 - 12/18/2022


In 1940s Indiana, there is no Christmas gift more sought after by a nine-year-old boy than a Red Ryder air rifle. Join Ralphie Parker and ...

9 To 5, The Musical
11/11 - 11/20/2022


9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL is a hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era. 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL tells the story ...

Happily Ever Before
Happily Ever Before
11/11 - 11/13/2022


For Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty, things always work out “Happily Ever After,” until a group of fed-up villains reverse the clock to before ...

Four Old Broads
Four Old Broads
10/14 - 10/23/2022


Fans of The Golden Girls will fall for this comedy about a colorful group of assisted living residents who are desperately trying to plan a ...

Ordinary Days
Ordinary Days
9/9 - 9/18/2022


Follow four New Yorkers as they search for happiness, love, and a decent cab in this original musical for anyone whos ever struggled to appreciate ...

Singin in the Rain Jr.
Singin in the Rain Jr.
7/21 - 7/24/2022


Now that sound has come to motion pictures, Hollywood will never be the sameand neither will the careers of a trio of silent film stars ...

Desperate Measures
Desperate Measures
6/10 - 6/19/2022


Johnny Bloods life is on the line, so hes put his fate in the hands of a mysterious sheriff, an eccentric priest, a saloon girl ...

The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers
3/25 - 4/3/2022


All for one, and one for all! Young DArtagnan joins forces with the famous Three Musketeers to take on the deadly Cardinal Richelieu and defend ...

Clue: On Stage
Clue: On Stage
2/11 - 2/20/2022


Its a dark and stormy night, and every guest at this dinner party has an alias, the butler is well-stocked with weapons, and the host ...

ELF: THE MUSICAL
ELF: THE MUSICAL
12/3 - 12/12/2021


Unaware that hes really a human and not an elf, Buddy embarks on a journey to find his birth father and discover who he really ...

POPCORN FALLS
POPCORN FALLS
10/15 - 10/24/2021


When the sleepy town of Popcorn Falls is forced into bankruptcy and threatened to be turned into a sewage treatment facility, their only hope is ...

Gage County, NE
Gage County, NE
8/13 - 8/15/2021


Community Players, in collaboration with director/playwright Cecilia Rubino, is inviting audiences to reflect on the events that followed the tragic homicide of Helen Wilson in ...

Bad Seed
2/21 - 3/1/2020


Maxwell Anderson, from William March's novel Community Players...

The Dining Room
2/21 - 3/1/2020


The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and ...

SEUSSICAL
11/15 - 11/24/2019


Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday and promote excitement in reading and literature with Seussical! This whimsical musical is based on the books of Dr. Seuss and ...

A LITTLE PRINCESS
11/15 - 11/23/2019


Written by Tony-nominated composer/lyricist, Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party), and Brian Crawley (Violet), A Little Princess is based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, ...

The Foreigner
9/13 - 9/22/2019


The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by “Froggy” LeSueur, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a ...

The Nerd
9/13 - 9/22/2019


One of the funniest plays ever written, this extraordinarily inventive, side-splitting comedy centers on the hilarious dilemma of Willum, a young architect, who is visited ...


Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play, The Odd Couple, sees the lead characters transformed into Olive Madison and Florence Unger. Olive and their ...

Almost, Maine
2/22 - 3/3/2019


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FOREVER PLAID
4/13 - 4/22/2018


The heavenly male quartet returns for their final chance to reach musical glory. Including songs “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”, “Moments to Remember”, and ...

ANNIE
11/10 - 11/19/2017


Leaping Lizards! Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, ...

TOMFOOLERY
3/25 - 4/9/2017


Four actors, stools, a piano and a healthy dose of attitude are all you need to enter the witty, wicked, offbeat and thoroughly twisted world ...

GUYS & DOLLS
4/10 - 4/26/2015


The slickest high rollers are in town, and they’re depending on Nathan Detroit to score a secret spot for their floating craps game. Throw in ...

Completely Hollywood (Abridged)


Three high energy actors condense 100 years of Hollywood's 186 greatest films into two hours of madcap mayhem. Exploring nearly every cliche and lame plot ...

Fools
Fools
2/14 - 2/23/2015


Deep in the countryside a tiny village is cursed with stupidity. A fresh young teacher arrives determined to break the curse, winning the hand of ...

Aesop, Come Back!
Aesop, Come Back!
11/15 - 11/17/2014


In an attempt to prove that Aesop was history's greatest fabulist, a group of storytellers crack the spine of a massive edition of Aesop's Fables, ...


Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country ...

Les Miserables
Les Miserables
5/30 - 6/8/2014


Discover this epic musical masterpiece in a whole new way. Jean Valjean's life-long struggle for redemption while pursued by the dogged Inspector Javert against the ...

The Incredible Illustrated Iris


Iris doesn't really have any friends. But she does have boxes and boxes of her grandfather's old comic books. It is in these books that ...

Completely Hollywood (Abridged)


Three high energy actors condense 100 years of Hollywood's 186 greatest films into two hours of madcap mayhem. Exploring nearly every cliche and lame plot ...

Fools
Fools
2/14 - 2/23/2014


Deep in the countryside a tiny village is cursed with stupidity. A fresh young teacher arrives determined to break the curse, winning the hand of ...

Winter Wonderettes
Winter Wonderettes
12/12 - 12/15/2013


Tuneful holiday music wrapped in the aluminum glow of the 1960s delivers a sleigh-full of entertainment as the Wonderettes return with a Christmas treat. The ...

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
10/11 - 10/27/2013


In the little village of Anatevka, Tevye, a poor dairyman, tries to instill in his five daughters the traditions of his tight-knit Jewish community in ...

The Boys Next Door
The Boys Next Door
7/20 - 7/29/2012


For tickets and more information, please visit the website....

42nd Street
42nd Street
4/13 - 4/29/2012


Come along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway! 42nd Street celebrates Broadway, Times Square and the magic of show biz with wit, humor and ...

The Sugar Bean Sisters
The Sugar Bean Sisters
1/13 - 1/22/2012


For tickets and more information, please visit the website....


Power, sex, ambition, greed... it's just another day at the office. brbrFrom the authors of "Guys And Dolls" comes one of the most delightfully irreverent ...

Videos


The Addams Family in Omaha The Addams Family
Community Players, Inc. (2/14 - 2/23)
Funny Girl in Omaha Funny Girl
Orpheum Theater Omaha (11/12 - 11/17)
A Nightmare on Ella Street in Omaha A Nightmare on Ella Street
Community Players, Inc. (10/26 - 10/26)
Melodramatics in Omaha Melodramatics
Community Players, Inc. (11/8 - 11/10)
Cinderella in Omaha Cinderella
Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre (11/21 - 12/8)
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley in Omaha Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
Community Players, Inc. (12/6 - 12/15)
Kimberly Akimbo in Omaha Kimberly Akimbo
Orpheum Theater Omaha (2/11 - 2/16)
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