Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Orpheum Theatre is Unstoppable!
by Christine Swerczek - March 28, 2025
The film “Some Like it Hot” conjures up visions of blonde Marilyn Monroe with her two musician sidekicks, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in prohibition era Chicago. The musicians dressed as women join an all women band to avoid a mafia boss when they witness a murder....
Review: THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL at Nebraska Wesleyan University
by Christine Swerczek - February 26, 2025
THE LIGHTNING THIEF: The Percy Jackson Musical, based on Rick Riordan’s popular novel of the same name, is playing at Nebraska Wesleyan University’s McDonald Theatre through March 2. With music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki and book by Joe Tracz, this production has something for adults and children ali...
Review: WAITRESS at Omaha Community Playhouse
by Christine Swerczek - January 27, 2025
One of my favorite pieces of musical theatre opened at the Omaha Community Playhouse on January 24th. WAITRESS, featuring the prodigious music and lyrics of Sara Bareilles and book by Jessie Nelson, was adapted from Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 film script of the same name. Shelly wrote, directed and co-s...
Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL at Lied Ceter For Performing Arts
by Analisa Swerczek - October 10, 2024
Audiences in Lincoln, Nebraska are abuzz with news of the current sit down of Back to the Future: The Musical currently playing at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Adapted from the 1985 Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film, Back to the Future, the show blends original music seamlessly wi...
Review: JERSEY BOYS: MY EARS ADORED IT at Omaha Community Theatre
by Christine Swerczek - September 13, 2024
Oh, what a night! I just spent 2 1/2 hours of pure delight listening to four phenomenal vocalists in Omaha Community Theatre’s current production of JERSEY BOYS. It will be difficult to pinpoint what I liked best (everything) and easy to point out what didn’t work (absolutely nothing.) OCP has a blo...