Arts Today
October 12th, 2022
Broadway season at the Orpheum
Music and dancing with for the first Broadway of the 2022-23 season at Omaha Performing Arts
October 10th, 2022
Berko’s Journey Highlights Omaha’s Immigrant History
KVNO’s 50th Anniversary Celebration is October 21st, and composer Stacy Garrop was commissioned by KVNO to write a work for our anniversary. The work tells the story of her great-grandfather’s journey.
October 7th, 2022
Gypsy jazz style, in the lawn
This weekend is the last of the outdoors Vespers concerts, and this time they bring a group with “Gypsy Jazz style”.
October 4th, 2022
Opera and Bagels
Gallery 1516 presents; ‘Bagels and Sometimes Bach’ performance in collaboration with Opera Omaha.
September 20th, 2022
KVNO Classical Kid Composes Work for KVNO Anniversary
KVNO commissioned noted young composer and former KVNO Classical Kid Winston Schneider to write a work for our 50th Anniversary. “Anniversary Overture” will have its world premiere at the Omaha Symphony’s season opener September 23 and 24.
September 16th, 2022
Chicago band brings Eastern European Jewish folk music to Omaha
The common usage of the term Klezmer developed about 1980. A klezmer was a male professional instrumental musician, usually Jewish, who played in a band hired for special occasions in eastern European communities.
August 30th, 2022
Omaha Community Play house, almost a hundred years
The mission of the Omaha Community Playhouse is to enhance the quality of life through live theater, professional touring, and arts education.
August 26th, 2022
‘El Museo Latino’ – three decades in Omaha
In 1989 there were only four Latino museums in the United States. Here in Omaha, ‘EL Museo Latino’ in Omaha opened its doors in the historic Livestock Exchange Building on May 5, 1993, as the first Latino Art & History Museum and Cultural Center in the Midwest
August 25th, 2022
‘Benson Theater’ history continues
The Benson Theater nonprofit purchased the building from a local developer in 2014