Arts News
September 21st, 2022
Good October Reads
Ted Wheeler of Dundee Books presents a guide to October reading.
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.
September 9th, 2022
OPA’s new Venue to Open in spring next year and events coming up
The Steel House’s first performance is scheduled for May 12 of 2023.
August 31st, 2022
Blue Barn Theater
The bluebarn theater creates stories that are emotional, they want to generate provoking thoughts with a different lens and approach the community to inspire positive change.
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