ARTS and THEATERAuditions Abound in April
Chances are good that you were one of the hundreds of people that were auditioning for shows this past weekend. Omaha Community Playhouse saw over 350 hopefuls vying for a chance to be apart of Les Miserables, the epic musical about the French Revolution. Facebook was littered with photos of a line that stretched outside and around the building this past Saturday. Katie Broman, the Playhouse...
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Les Miz and So Much More
This weekend marks round one of auditions for Les Miserables, the first show of the last Omaha Playhouse season with Carl Beck and Susie Baer Collins at the helm. Beck and Collins will no doubt have their hands full casting the musical epic. While Les Miz has received most of the attention from announcement of next season, there are plenty of notable shows on the books for the Playhouse.
Kathy Tyree will be...
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Mormon Highlights a New Broadway Season
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OEAs, O’Neill, and One-Handed Psychos
After attending the festivities of the OEA Awards this past week, I’ve decided it’s time for the creation of an “OEA Awareness Committee”. Of all the winners of from Sunday’s ceremony, less than half were actually in attendance, leaving the Artistic Directors of the respective theatres on the hook to go up numerous times to graciously accept awards. This is not to say that the evening was not well attended, it...
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A Theatre-packed Valentine’s Weekend Awaits
Several shows abound for those looking to take in some theatre this Valentine’s weekend. If you prefer your love story with a side of zombies, blood, and ponchos, then I suggest you take up Evil Dead: The Musical. As someone who lived through “The Splatter Zone” I can offer a few pieces of advice: 1) Even with the ponchos and foot protection, you will get gloriously bloody. 2) You’ll hardly care after...
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Find Your Stage? New Solution, Old Problem
I’m not crazy about splitting theater into the safe, mainstream stuff on one side and plays for “adventuresome” audiences on the other as the Omaha Community Playhouse is doing with its new “Find Your Stage” theme for its 88th season.
But if that’s the latest and best way to bring the likes of August: Osage County to Omaha, more power to them. That triumph also requires applause for the wise earlier decision to...
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