There comes a time when you need some good laughs, considering how you could feel as if you’ve been walking down a dark hall with your flashlight full of dead batteries. That could be when you take a load off your tired toes and squeeze into a seat at the Playhouse. Why not give yourself […]
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Lear and you.
If you are familiar with Shakespeare’s King Lear you will certainly encounter elements of it in Walk The Night, Where Madness Lies produced by Blue Barn Theatre. Knowing the play may lead you to expect characters, scenes, developments which may never materialize. Thus, a lack of familiarity with the original could be a significant advantage. […]
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SOME PLACE LIKE HOME
In its eleventh year of surging vitality,a great-looking, superbly produced version of Wicked, the musical, has arrived in this Great Plains state, neighbor to Dorothy Gale’s Kansas. Not that Dorothy is at the center of this visit to Oz. She’s a sound effect and a shadow. You probably know that. This adventure has become a […]
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Another Wicked Witch
The Rose Theater has taken on the major task of trying to make the best of the musical Narnia derived from C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The original children’s novel comes thoroughly supplied with adventure, meaning and symbolic significance. But this version, laden with songs, defuses the potential. The result, […]
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A Winter Night’s Rite
As you’ve no doubt heard ‘tis the season to be jolly. And it’s a time when folks everywhere partake of sacred and secular rites. Non-religious ones include such things as going to concerts, ballets and theatre where tried and true themes and stories are re-visited, re-connectimg with the comfortably familiar. Although such performances may be presented […]
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Box Of Moonlight
“The Fantasticks” seems to be just the sort of musical that I’ve always intended to fall in love with … it’s just that no one has ever given me a reason to do so. All that has changed with the Omaha Community Playhouse production of the poetic parable about young love confronted by the hard […]
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Almost Paradise
Footloose song and dance shines at Playhouse Let’s begin with an important admission. I am all but culturally illiterate when it comes to ’80s cinema and its legacy. Having spent that decade knee-deep in raising kids, my world was one of diaper changes, school activities, Scouts and youth sports. When we did go to movies, […]
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Coming ‘Round Again
Every now and then, Gordon Cantiello flies in to Omaha from San Diego and creates some musical theater. This time, he’s hired a few of the metro’s favorite vocalists to present The World Goes Round, a Kander-Ebb revue opening this weekend. If composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb aren’t popping up on your screen, […]
