ARTS and THEATERBrigit’s killing Julius C.
Friends, Omahans, countrymen, lend me your ears: Brigit’s killing Julius C. at the Downtown Space this weekend. And director Cathy Kurz has Mark Scott in the title role of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. If that doesn’t stoke your theatrical fires it’s because you didn’t see him in Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre’s A View from the Bridge as Eddie Carbone. It ranks with Bill Hutson’s performance in M....
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Laughter and Reflections
I wed Carol Burnett 15 years ago, so I have a number of questions for her Laughter and Reflections show which features her fielding queries from fans. Like, why haven’t we consummated the marriage? Being quick on the comeback, the performer may point out that I married a different Carol Burnett, one somewhat sweeter and lovelier but perhaps not as funny. But the rest of you might have less obvious questions, so...
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21 And Over, Nogg’s Class, Katie’s Fury
In a season with such unprovocative titles as The Odd Couple, Nunsense and Steel Magnolias running consecutively at the Omaha Community Playhouse, here comes a striking contrast: Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the OCP’s Howard Drew Theatre, its new “21 and Over” program offers a free reading of Peter Nachtrieb’s Boom, involving a global catastrophe that occurs after a graduate student’s online personal ad lures a...
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Set Design Genius
You don’t need me to tell you about the excitement called Eurydice that’s underway at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The daily’s Bob Fischbach drew a delicious sketch Sunday of the plans by designer Robbie Jones for Sara Ruhl’s twist on the classic story of Orpheus in the Underworld. The reason I was so happy to see a big spread on Jones’ collaboration with student director Krystal Kelly goes back...
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Cold Cream
You get Romeo and Juliet plus two more fortunate couples, Vince and Sarah and Alan and Faith, all for free on the grass of Turner Park at Midtown Crossing. And Will Shakespeare himself sets the scene for this 75-minute version of the star-crossed lovers. Vincent Carlson-Brown and Sarah Carlson-Brown, veterans of the Nebraska Shakespeare educational tour and wedded bliss, are joined in the cast by two newlyweds,...
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Cold Cream
Raise your hand if you’re working on a musical titled The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo who Played with Fire and Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Stand on a chair and wave if you’re a pint-sized performer, denied the roles that go to leggy lasses but eager to play 4’11” Lisbeth Salander. Not since witnessing the musical Rent and realizing that we’d seen the last work of its late creator, Jonathan Larson, has an...
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