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.
The Addams Family
2/14
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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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Past Shows
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 ...
Melodramatics
11/8
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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, ...
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 ...
Mary Poppins
7/12
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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, ...
She Loves Me
12/8
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
6/9
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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 fantastical plot of a mysterious book draws a bullied young boy deeper and deeper into its story. As he continues to read about the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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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
11/11
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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
10/14
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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
9/9
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
2/11
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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
12/3
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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
10/15
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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
8/13
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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 ...
Maxwell Anderson, from William March's novel Community Players...
The Dining Room
2/21
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
FOREVER PLAID
4/13
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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 ...
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
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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
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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 ...
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 ...
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!
11/15
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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
5/30
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
12/12
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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
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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 ...
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42nd Street
4/13
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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 ...
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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 ...