Arts News
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 29th, 2022
American Midwest Ballet
American Midwest Ballet nomadic for a long time, making use of wherever and whomever they could to store and rehearse.
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
August 24th, 2022
PACE, thriving and growing during hard times
About a month after PACE’s grand opening the covid pandemic forced them to significantly re-organize to provide services. And now that things are mostly back to normal, PACE continues with its mission
August 23rd, 2022
Omaha Performing Arts, a pillar in the arts scene
In 2000 Omaha performing Arts becomes a non-for-profit organization, it was already certain that this organization would become a pillar of the artistic scene in the city
July 19th, 2022
Open mic for Poets
The spoken word poetry encompasses elements of jazz, rock, blues, rap, hip-hop, theater, and folk music. The history of this artform includes its cultural significance as part of the African/African American Oral Tradition.
July 12th, 2022
Extra! Extra! Newsies at ‘Sum Tur Amphytheater’ in July
‘Newsies’ at the Sum Tur Amphitheater in Association with La Vista, Papillion Community Theater. These two organizations were born in the same year.
July 8th, 2022
‘The Last Supper’ at Belleview little theater
The Last Supper is a 1995 American black comedy film directed by Stacy Title and written by Dan Rosen