Theater
Theaters harvest plays from Great Plains conference
The Great Plains Theatre Conference is more than a collaborative around craft. It's also a source of plays for theaters, whose productions give GPTC playwrights a platform for their words to take shape. more
Identity
The Blue Barn Theatre challenges itself like never before with Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui". more
A Curious Fire
In the underpaid (and often never paid) world of Omaha theater, an artist’s most valuable resource is their time. How we spend that time is often a struggle between the two things most precious to us: our art and our family. Madeline Radcli... more
Visiting People With Memorable Pasts
Circle Theatre has been around for quite a while. In fact, it’s celebrating a thirty-third anniversary this year. That’s some kind of longevity. The new Resident Director, Fran Sillau, is also 33. The past meets the future. A fresh start. ... more
Power and Play in the Park
Two women who know their own minds and want their own ways are at the centers of back-to-back alignments of the plays presented this summer by Nebraska Shakespeare in Elmwood Park. Each woman confronts an ambitious man who yearns to prospe... more
Play considers North Omaha history through the eyes of Mildred Bown
As North Omaha Neighborhood Tapestries returns for the Great Plains Theatre Conference's free PlayFest bill, two community icons take center stage as subject and setting. En route to making her Omaha Star newspaper an institution in the Af... more
Embracing the Past, Excited for the Future
The Omaha Community Playhouse found a familiar face in their search for the company’s new Artistic Director. New York-based director Kimberly Faith Hickman accepted the position last week and will begin duties on June 1st, 2016. She fills t... more
OEA Awards 2016 Recap: Theatre
The bitter cold outside Sunday night gave way to warm greetings and well wishes from all over the theatrical spectrum at the 10th Annual Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards, held inside the Downtown Doubletree Hotel on January 1... more
Omaha Theatre: Previewing 2016
Omaha Theatre 2016 Preview Omaha theatre in 2016 has plenty of anticipation behind it. Perhaps the most anticipated storyline will be who the Omaha Community Playhouse finds to replace now departed Artistic Director Hilary Adams. Playho... more