ARTS and THEATERShow Must Go On
* The wind swept snow past the window as I took a phone call canceling the event we planned to attend Saturday evening. Thoughts turned to a young man I’d seen earlier in the week, sweeping artificial snow flakes from the stage of the Omaha Community Playhouse before another performance of A Christmas Carol. Maybe the volunteers who keep our theaters going came to mind because I was backstage that evening for a...
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Wood Works
If there was one thing proved by Out of the Woods, an interesting Hot Shops group exhibit last summer, it is that wood sculpture can be more than craft or hobby for its artists. Not that there wasn’t fine craftsmanship in this show as seen in the representational design of Herm Rauth’s doorway and coffin. And Robert Dewaele’s highly polished and sensual “driftwood” did border on the familiar and the...
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KANEKO Block Party recap
* Last weekend’s KANEKO block party drew a large crowd to check out (and bid on) 50 or so works by local artists. Much of the work took the creative assignment literally, and many pieces were piles of various sized square blocks that somehow fit together. Rob Gilmer’s block pile focused on health care, while a series of blocks created by an anonymous artist were covered with maps. Some artists created wall...
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We Got The Beat-les
It’s safe in mid-December to say the most fun we had at a theater in 2010 was again Billy McGuigan’s Beatles show, Yesterday and Today, at the Omaha Community Playhouse. “We” includes my wife who also sees an average of one or two theatrical offerings a week, some of which I enjoy more than she does. So that’s two votes for “most fun” for the third year in a row. Fears that the sponsoring Security...
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John Beasley, For Colored Girls at JBT
Add John Beasley to the list of For Colored Girls fans who didn’t find Tyler Perry’s film version as satisfying as the play his theater presents again this weekend. He reminisced recently about its debut here in 2003, with a cast that included Pasionetta Prince, later victim of a killer who was finally convicted and sentenced in November. The criticism of director-producer Perry began when it was first reported...
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Mind Over Matter
It was 17th century philosopher-mathematician René Descartes who first articulated a general theory of dualism stating that humans consist of a sort of mind-body dichotomy. Descartes attributed all animal or biological activity to the brain while crediting one’s thoughts and desires to the mind, a more elusive and spiritual faculty. Inextricably linked, this mind-body dualism has led to such speculation as...
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“Oh,”...
Addams Family and Gearing Up for Great Plains
In 1933 Charles Addams published his first cartoon in the New Yorker when was just 21. Over the course of...
Stage Managers Make the Theatrical World Go ‘Round
When you witness a well put together production, everything you see go right on the stage (and more importantly everything...
Rose’s New Season and Struve’s New Play Bring Excitement
Children’s theatre, regrettably, often doesn’t receive the press that other productions around town get. Sometimes its the...
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Play Me, I’m YoursThe Omaha Creative Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide opportunities for the community to...
Bemis Director Adam PriceNewly appointed Executive Director of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Adam Price comes to the Bemis from the Utah...
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“Rather than having a single exhibition that fills all of our special exhibition spaces, we have this rather unique...
He’s known as Mr. Mummy, but Bob Brier’s love of Egypt happened rather late in life and unexpectedly.
Brier is a Senior...
