Theaters Near Me in Imperial
Alliance Theatre
410 Box Butte Avenue, Alliance, NE
Kearney Community Theatre
83 Plaza Boulevard, Kearney, NE
Amateur theater has been alive and well in Kearney for at least 100 years. Historical newspaper archives often contain stories about local actors presenting plays of all kinds at local theaters, in parks and on the stages of schools.
Kearney Community Theatre grew from a core group of Kearneyites that had been presenting one or two shows a year from the late 50’s into the mid- 1970s. KCT was formally organized in 1977.
From 1977 to 1984, KCT began presenting 4 to 5 shows a year and, since there was no permanent home stage, the productions were staged in a variety of venues around town – The courtroom of the old Buffalo County Courthouse (“Twelve Angry Men”), the ballroom of the old Elks Club (22nd and 1st Avenue), the Fort Kearney Hotel (also 22nd and 1st), the First Methodist Church (“Amal and the Night Visitors”), and the Miriam Drake Theater at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
TADA Theatre
701 P Street Suite 203, Lincoln, NE
About Us:
TADA (The Arts Deserve Attention) Productions Inc. is the non-profit parent company of the TADA Theatre located in Lincoln’s Historic Haymarket. For 14 years, TADA has showcased Nebraska talent through a wide array of award winning productions and regional premieres.
TADA received national recognition working with show creators on the Midwest premiere of Jekyll & Hyde the musical and was the first independent theatrical company to be granted rights to and perform the New York block-buster Forbidden Broadway and also produced the regional premieres of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Happy Days A New Musical, The Spidey Project and Gilligan's Island the musical, working alongside legendary TV icons Sherwood and Lloyd Schwartz. TADA has received direct permission to perform songs from such theatre composers and lyricists as Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Schwartz.
TADA is a recipient of a Proclamation for Theatre Excellence from the State of Nebraska, a Mayor’s Arts Award from the City of Lincoln, and an Impact Award for downtown development from the Downtown Lincoln Association.
TADA's history has been filled with a variety of collaborative productions such as Sweeney Todd with the Nebraska Symphony Chamber Orchestra, A Cornhusker Christmas with NET radio, Big River and South Pacific with the Lincoln Choral Artists, Beauty and the Beast with Lincoln Parks and Recreation, Quilters with the International Quilt Study Center, several productions with The Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and the critically acclaimed touring production of Side By Side Sondheim that appeared at the Minden Opera House, Brownville Concert Hall and other venues across the Midwest.
Originally created by Robert and Cris Rook as a sole proprietorship TADA Productions, Inc. became a nonprofit theatre company overseen by a Board of Directors in 2007. With a core group of theatrical artists, an ever growing patron base and an esteemed Board of Directors, TADA Productions, Inc. is now one of the fastest growing theatre companies in the Midwest and has involved hundreds of actors, students, designers and regional artists.
The Haymarket Theatre
803 Q Street, Lincoln, NE
Mission And Organization
The Haymarket Theatre’s mission is to enrich, educate, entertain and empower our community through live theatre and youth performing arts education programs for all. Our vision since the theatre’s inception in 2001 is to foster, create, collaborate, and host intriguing theatre and high quality performing arts for the surrounding and greater Lincoln community. The Haymarket Theatre is dedicated to exposing the community’s youth to vast array of opportunities that can only be learned through an education and participation in the theatrical arts. We find that this creates a sense of pride in the students as they work hands on with a staff of talented and trained theatre professionals to bring a story to life. This dynamic approach to the instruction of theatre brings a wide variety of the community together under one roof creating a more profound outcome for all who participate. This institution brings together the community at large with the most talented theatrical professionals in Lincoln for a truly rewarding experience.
Lincoln Community Playhouse
2500 South 56th Street, Lincoln, NE
Mission Statement:
The mission of the Lincoln Community Playhouse (LCP) is to positively transform the lives of individuals and profoundly change our community by providing the finest quality theatre experience in both process and production.
Lofte Community Theatre
15841 Manley Road, Manley, NE
About
Diane (Bjornborg) Reece was the new English, Speech and Drama teacher at Weeping Water Public Schools from the early to late 1970s. She realized that there was a great deal of talent, not only in the school, but in the surrounding area as well. She envisioned a performance space where anyone interested in performing could gather and do just that. Since the area is agricultural in nature, the obvious setting for this space steered her towards Howard Rathe, who owned a homestead and a large barn on Highway 1, just a few miles from town.
Omaha Community Playhouse
6915 Cass Street, Omaha, NE
Our Mission
"The Omaha Community Playhouse is a performing arts organization that enhances quality of life through live theatre, professional touring and arts education. We are dedicated to enriching the lives of audiences and participants through entertainment, thought-provoking stories and first-hand involvement."
Benson Theater
6054 Maple Street, Omaha, NE
Benson Theatre's mission is to engage, enhance and enrich the community through educational and artistic experiences. Located at 6054 Maple Street, renovations on the organization's historic 1923 facility were completed in 2021, and the new Benson Theatre opened to the public in early 2022.
We are resolute in our commitment to be an inclusive, accessible space that is welcoming to everyone in our community. This strategic intention is reflected in our facility renovations, range of programs, diverse community partners, and focus on financial accessibility. We are proud to foster an organizational model that allows us to collaborate widely and support our community partners, allowing them to share their mission work with Benson, North Omaha, and the broader Omaha community.
Shelterbelt Theatre
3225 California Street, Omaha, NE
Who We Are:
The mission of the Shelterbelt Theatre is to provide a safe and nurturing environment in which to focus the development of original work and to provide for the practical education of writers, performing artists, creative and technical staff, and the general public in the art and science of moving an idea from the mind to the stage.
The objective of the Shelterbelt Theater is to develop, workshop and produce new works by local and national playwrights. We love to present world premiere work that engages and inspires our audience. We are rooted in the belief that theater can make a difference and change the world, no matter how big the stage.
We have a diverse reading committee dedicated to finding the scripts that will continue to steer our theater in the line of our mission.
We have a four times yearly reading series "Before the Boards" that offers playwrights an opportunity to hear their play in front of a live audience in a staged reading, before it hits a full production.
And our Shelterbelt After Hours provides a stage for alternative, late night programming. From One-Acts to Slam Poetry our imagination is the limit and our imagination is vast.
Submit, Support, Shelterbelt.
Omaha Performing Arts
1200 Douglas Street, Omaha, NE
Mission Statement: Omaha Performing Arts is dedicated to enriching the lives of the citizens of Omaha and surrounding communities through the presentation of the finest local, national and international artistic performances. We are committed to: the stewardship and management of the Orpheum Theater and the Holland Performing Arts Center; the presentation of a variety of the finest performing arts events; and education and community involvement programs to support, enhance and expand appreciation for the arts.
Blue Barn Theatre
614 South 11th Street, Omaha, NE
Mission:
The Blue Barn Theater exists to enhance the cultural life of Omaha, Nebraska by producing professionally executed, boundary breaking plays that ignite a passion for the art form. Blue Barn is dedicated to theatre’s most important tradition: to provoke thought, emotion, action and change.
About Us:
The BLUEBARN Theatre began in the late 1980's with graduates from the Professional Theatre Training Conservatory at the State University of New York at Purchase. Seeking to continue the deeply shared artistic aesthetic and practice that they had developed over their four years of conservatory training, and also to create theatre outside the constraints of New York City's commercial market, they joined forces with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and produced their first play: America in Pieces, three one-acts by David Mamet, Spalding Grey, and Sam Shepard. The first production was produced with $75 and two white sheets and performed in the middle of a bitter cold February. The response to the work was overwhelming, and the BLUEBARN was born. In the Fall of 1990, after working for two seasons at the Bemis Foundation, the BLUEBARN renovated an empty storefront building on 13th street in downtown Omaha, creating a small black box performance space that was to be the BLUEBARN home for the next six years.
By 1991, the BLUEBARN was growing fast, adding new core members from a variety of backgrounds, all sharing a commitment to the BLUEBARN's original vision. That year, the BLUEBARN established a tradition of producing original scripts. The first, called Untitled, was an improvisational piece using large, leather body masks, music, and dance. Since that time we have produced many new works for the stage including The Empty Plough, What the Mirror Gave Me: An Original Play About Frida Kahlo, Murder In the Heartland, 5000 Nights. Reform School Timmy!, Go-Go Boys from Planet X!, Minstrel Show: The Lynching of William Brown, Chelsea/Cruelties, Little Nelly’s Naughty Noel and Toxic Avenger: The Musical!
In June of 1997, the BLUEBARN lost its home on 13th Street and was forced to go “On Location” to survive. A potentially disasterous situation was averted and the BLUEBARN produced a season of unique and powerful productions in the abandoned Burlington Train Station, a former department store, and the Douglas County Courthouse rotunda.
In 1998, the tenth anniversary season, the BLUEBARN moved into its current home, a 86-seat proscenium arch theatre in Omaha’s Old Market. The BLUEBARN also opened the Abbott/Pinkoff Art Gallery, providing local visual artists a place to display their work.
The BLUEBARN’s national reputation is also increasing. In the past, the theatre has taken two plays out of the state. In 2003, the theatre was honored to participate in the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington D.C. by performing its award winning play A Piece of my Heart about women in the Vietnam War. In 2004, the BLUEBARN traveled to New York to participate in the New York City International Fringe Theatre Festival with its original play 5000 Nights. In 2002 and 2003, the BLUEBARN created a unique fundraising event, “On the Set with...” which featured upclose interviews and film clips with Oscar winning writer/director Alexander Payne and Emmy winning Actress Edie Falco (The Sopranos).
Now in its 24th season, the BLUEBARN has established itself as Omaha’s premier professional theatre. After producing over 80 plays since 1989, the BLUEBARN’s reputation for high quality entertainment and pursuit of stories that challenge both the theatre artists and patrons is solid. Today, the BLUEBARN's primary goals are to bring in more professional actors and designers from around the country and to increase awareness of the BLUEBARN in Omaha and surrounding communities.
In 2012, The BLUEBARN announced that the future home of the theatre at 10th & Pacific is being designed now and we are launching a capital campaign to raise significant funds in the community to build our future home.
Bellevue Little Theatre
203 West Mission Avenue, Bellevue, NE
Mission Statement:
The Bellevue Little Theatre exists to create a superior environment for the promotion of the performing arts through the presentation of comedy, drama, and musical theatre production, and to stimulate educational and recreational programs in the technical and artistic venues of the performing arts for the citizens of the city of Bellevue, Sarpy County, and the greater Omaha metropolitan area.
The Bellevue Little Theatre, an all volunteer organization, maintains an "equal opportunity" policy for volunteer recruitment of both board and production positions. Auditions are open to the general public, with the same "equal opportunity" policy. The Bellevue Little Theatre encourages a diverse audience to attend its performances by offering a varied performance schedule. Individual tickets, as well as season subscriptions, are available. These admissions are offered at affordable prices for families, students and senior citizens.
Brownville Village Theatre
222 Water Street, Brownville, NE
The Brownville Village Theatre is located in the southern part of Nebraska right on the border of Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa. Brownville Nebraska is the oldest town in the state. The theatre was created out of an old church and has a very intimate, yet creative climate. The theatre celebrates its 36th season in Brownville and audiences come from all 3 states and other surrounding areas to see the productions.