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What did our critic think of APPROPRIATE: UNCOVERED AND UNCOMFORTABLE at Bluebarn Theatre?...
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...
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by Christine Swerczek - December 08, 2024
What did our critic think of GIRLS LIKE US: A LITTLE NAUGHTY, MOSTLY NICE at Omaha Community Playhouse?...
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: MATILDA THE MUSICAL is Marvelous at Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre
by Christine Swerczek - October 06, 2024
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by Christine Swerczek - September 21, 2024
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Review: THE REVOLUTIONISTS at Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre: Not as simple as it appears
by Christine Swerczek - September 20, 2024
Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre has a history of mounting an impressive variety of plays and musicals. Currently, Lauren Gunderson’s revolutionary play about four women during the 1793 Reign of Terror in Paris, is a compelling production running in the Enid Miller Lab Theatre. Some would call t...
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...
Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ: A Child's Dream at Ralston Community Theater
by Christine Swerczek - July 22, 2024
I grew up with “The Wizard of Oz.” Every year we set aside that one night when the 1939 MGM film with Judy Garland as Dorothy came on our black and white console television. We huddled around the screen with bowls of popcorn and feasted on the fantasy world of Oz. ...
Review: HELLO, DOLLY! YOU'RE LOOKING SWELL! at Omaha Community Theatre
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Past Shows
AMERICAN IDIOT
2/20 - 3/1/2020
This rock musical captures the frustrating struggle between rage and love, disaffection and desire, like only Green Day can....
THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
4/25 - 5/5/2019
A rousing, bawdy fairy tale set in the yesteryears of Mississippi, The Robber Bridegroom is the story of the courting of Rosamund, the only daughter ...
XANADU
2/7 - 2/17/2019
Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the ...
MAMMA MIA!
11/29 - 12/9/2018
MAMMA MIA! is the ultimate feel–good show that has audiences coming back again and again to relive the thrill. Now it's your turn to have ...
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
9/27 - 10/7/2018
The Drowsy Chaperone is a hilarious and meta-theatrical musical that injects a dose of nostalgia and playful satire into the world of classic Broadway musicals. ...
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
3/15 - 3/25/2018
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, one of the most romantic stories ever written, is now an irresistible, two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Based on the ...
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
2/1 - 2/11/2018
Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. ...
1776
8/17 - 8/27/2017
The seminal event in American history blazes to vivid life in this most unconventional of Broadway hits. 1776 puts a human face on the pages ...
INTO THE WOODS
4/20 - 4/30/2017
Stepping into the world of Into the Woods, the musical by James Lapin with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, is like entering a twisted ...
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
10/29 - 11/8/2015
The final production of Masquerade’s 2010-2011 season is Thoroughly Modern Millie, the zany new 1920's-style musical that has taken Broadway by storm! Taking place in ...
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
2/6 - 2/16/2014
A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon ...
SPRING AWAKENING
2/9 - 2/19/2012
Winner of 8 TONY Awards, including BEST MUSICAL, strongSPRING AWAKENING/strong celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, poignancy, and passion that ...
Videos
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MJ
Orpheum Theater Omaha (6/10 - 6/15) | |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company)
Orpheum Theater Omaha (5/7 - 5/18) | |
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Eminent Domain
Angels Theatre Company (3/20 - 3/30) | |
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The Addams Family
Community Players, Inc. (2/14 - 2/23) | |
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Beetlejuice
Lied Center for Performing Arts (3/4 - 3/9) | |
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The Psychology of a Murderer
The Astro Theater (3/15 - 3/15) | |
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Some Like It Hot
Orpheum Theater Omaha (3/25 - 3/30) | |
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