University Theatre at Kearney’s season-opening production of “Orphan Train: The Musical” is at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Miriam Drake Theatre inside UNK’s Fine Arts Building. The University of Nebraska at Kearney show dramatizes the Orphan Train Movement that relocated an estimated 250,000 orphaned and homeless children during a 75-year period from 1854 to 1929. “Orphan Train: The Musical” features a 22-member cast playing 37 roles. About half the … [Read more...]
UNK Theatre’s ‘[title of show]’ musical opens Wednesday
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KEARNEY – The University Theatre at Kearney and Alpha Psi Omega present “[title of show]” Wednesday through Sunday (Feb. 14-18) at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. “[title of show]” is a one-act musical about two struggling writers, Jeff and Hunter, who write a musical and submit it to the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The show follows the struggles of the author and composer/lyricist and their two actress friends during a 3-week creative period, along with subsequent events … [Read more...]
University Theatre opens five-show run of ‘Rashomon’ Wednesday
KEARNEY – University Theatre at Kearney presents “Rashomon” with a run of five shows Wednesday through Sunday at Miriam Drake Theatre. The University of Nebraska at Kearney production includes 7:30 p.m. performances Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and concludes with a 2 p.m. show Sunday. “Rashomon” is set in Japan, about 1,000 years ago, at a police court in a nearby forest. The wife of a Samurai officer is assaulted and her husband killed by a roving bandit. Contradictory … [Read more...]
UNK performance of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ opera opens Saturday
OPERA TITLE: “Hansel and Gretel” ABOUT: Written by German composer, Engelbert Humperdinck, with a libretto written by his sister, Adelheid Wette, in 1893. The libretto is adapted from the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel.” This production is performed in English. The idea for the opera was proposed to Humperdinck by his sister, who approached him about writing music for songs she had written for her children for Christmas based on “Hansel and Gretel.” After several revisions, the … [Read more...]
University Theatre: ‘Five Women Wearing the Same Dress’ opens Wednesday
KEARNEY – University Theatre at Kearney presents “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” by Alan Ball Wednesday through Sunday (Oct. 4-8) at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tenn., estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian … [Read more...]
