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NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

51st and, Huntington Ave, Lincoln, NE 68504
Lincoln, NE 68504

The Prom
4/18 - 4/28/2024


The Prom is a comedic musical with a heartwarming message, created by a talented team. The music was composed by Matthew Sklar, with lyrics by ...


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#IMOMSOHARD: Ladies' Night Comes to the Lied Center This June


by A.A. Cristi - February 21, 2023

It’s Ladies’ Night at the Lied Center! #IMOMSOHARD is coming back to Nebraska....

Review: Voices of A LONG LINE OF MCKINNEY WOMEN at Nebraska Wesleyan Theatre


by Christine Swerczek - February 21, 2023

What did our critic think of A LONG LINE OF MCKINNEY WOMEN at Nebraska Wesleyan Theatre?...

GREATER TUNA to Open at The TADA Theatre in August


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 18, 2022

The hilarious comedy Greater Tuna will open at The TADA Theatre August 11th. Broadcasting from radio station OKKK, its two broadcasters, Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie, introduce us to Texas' third smallest town, Tuna, Texas and its eclectic band of Tuna citizens - men, women, children and anima...

SEUSSICAL! Takes Center Stage At Nebraska Wesleyan University


by A.A. Cristi - April 19, 2022

The Seussian world comes to life in Nebraska Wesleyan University's staging of the show, Seussical....

Nebraska Wesleyan University Announces Workshop Series with Kailey Marshall


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 19, 2022

Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced a workshop series with New York City musical creator and composer, Kailey Marshall. The series gives Nebraska Wesleyan students the opportunity to work with an award-winning actress, composer and director....

BWW Interview: Kayli Jamison of CATS at Orpheum Theater


by Analisa Swerczek - September 26, 2021

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BWW Review: HEAD OVER HEELS at Nebraska Wesleyan University


by Analisa Swerczek - August 29, 2021

Based on “The Arcadia” by Sir Philip Sidney and featuring a score made of up some of the biggest Go-Go’s hits, Head Over Heels is a show about love, acceptance, and being true to who you are....

Past Shows

The Good Doctor
The Good Doctor
3/14 - 3/17/2024


If laughter is the best medicine, Neil Simon prescribes us a powerful dose of Chekhov. This play's writer/narrator deals with his writer's block by hopping ...

In Sorrow's Guise: An Immersive Medea


Ancient Greece glances off film noir in this Golden Age of Hollywood retelling of the classic Greek story of a womans revenge. Audience and actors ...

Seussical
Seussical
4/21 - 5/1/2022


The Seussian world is family friendly without being just for kids. Everyone will enjoy the complex and intriguing worlds the cat pulls from his hat ...

Three Sisters
Three Sisters
3/24 - 4/3/2022


Planted for 11 years in the Russian countryside, the Prozorov sisters long to blossom again in metropolitan Moscow. But weedy compulsions keep tangling up their ...

Three Sisters (van Itallie)
3/24 - 4/3/2022


Anton Chekhov, in a revised English version by Jean-Claude van Itallie Nebraska Wesleyan University...

Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow


You can drink your Chekhov straight (Three Sisters), or with a twist. This howlingly funny production features the same cast as NWUs Three Sisters in ...

Little Women
Little Women
2/12 - 2/27/2022


For a budding writer like Jo, making it big means moving far beyond the March familys smallness. But, as her sisters and her love interests ...

Bondagers
Bondagers
1/27 - 2/6/2022


For the Scottish women who work in bondage to powerful farmers, injustice and hardship grow like vines. These resilient women must bond together to root ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/2 - 12/12/2021


You know the characters of this Dickens' Christmas classic. What if Dickens’ message wasn’t intended just for Scrooge, and wasn’t limited to one holiday? This ...

A Shayna Maidel
A Shayna Maidel
11/11 - 11/21/2021


Two sisters are separated by an ocean, a war and a concentration camps razor wire. Even after a haunted Lusia and a guilty Rose reunite ...

Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure
10/21 - 10/31/2021


The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Moralists set immoral traps in this play that stands in the grey among drama, comedy and tragedy....

Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly!
9/30 - 10/10/2021


Say hello to one of the greatest musicals of the Golden Age. This Broadway classic brims with romance, dance and some of the best songs ...

Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels
8/19 - 8/29/2021


NWU is head over heels to have James Newman, artistic director of the Santa Rosa Repertory Theatre Festival, on campus to direct this hilarious, exuberant ...

A Doll's House, Part 2
10/1 - 10/11/2020


Nebraska Wesleyan University Lucas Hnath...

The Book of Will
3/26 - 4/5/2020


Lauren Gunderson Nebraska Wesleyan University...

Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross
2/6 - 2/16/2020


In the zero-sum world of Chicago real estate, selling the American dream can be a caustic, darkly comic American nightmare. This unique production features two ...

Now. Here. This.
11/21 - 11/24/2019


The Wolves
The Wolves
10/31 - 11/10/2019


You've never seen inside a wolfpack like this. Warm up with the nine fierce girls on this raw-talking indoor soccer team and get a feel ...

NEWSIES
NEWSIES
9/26 - 10/6/2019


Catch NWU's first Disney production. Jack Kelly is a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenage New York newsies. When Joseph Pulitzer raises ...

Gloria
9/12 - 9/22/2019


Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Nebraska Wesleyan University...

Footloose
Footloose
8/15 - 8/25/2019


There's never been dancing in the town of Bomont. Nor has there been a kid like Ren McCormack. Something's got to give. New York artist ...

The Robber Bridegroom
The Robber Bridegroom
4/25 - 5/5/2019


Bluegrass meets Broadway. Identities collapse in this barn-raisin' Southern thrill of a good time set in 18th-century Mississippi....

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


For young Christopher, math is an open book and people a murky mystery. When the neighbor's do is killed with a garden fork, Christopher investigates ...

Nell Gwynn
Nell Gwynn
3/21 - 3/31/2019


A woman acting? On stage? Nell is the first woman allowed in King Charles II's company of actors. Her presence--and her performance--on the London stage ...

Applause! Applause! Reboot
Applause! Applause! Reboot
2/28 - 3/3/2019


Back by popular demand, this musical review is reminiscent of past Applause! Applause! and Broadway Jukebox productions. Audience members spin a wheel to determine the ...

One-Ham Manlet
One-Ham Manlet
2/23 - 2/24/2019


Watch one actor play 20 characters in this adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Is there a "method to this madness," or is it "something rotten"? Come ...

Xanadu
Xanadu
2/7 - 2/17/2019


Sonny Malone is deeply dissatisfied by his life as a Venice Beach sidewalk artist--until Clio, a timeless Greek muse, makes it her mission to inspire ...

Hamlet
Hamlet
1/17 - 1/27/2019


Shakespeare's most complex work requires the simplest plug: Come see the greatest play ever written. Presented in the Miller Lab Theatre....

Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
11/29 - 12/9/2018


Sophie wants nothing more than to have her father walk her down the aisle for her traditional Greek wedding. But who is her father? NWU ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/1 - 12/5/2018


This unique, 60-minute adaptation of the Dickens classic is enjoyed by all, but written for children, grade 6 and younger. Tickets are just $2 per ...

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean


Fans still talk about the time--20 years ago--when James Dean came to Marfa, Texas, to shoot a movie. But memory, truth and desire are three ...

Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
10/25 - 11/4/2018


Forget the togas. Wecome to "New Rome," an authoritarian republic risen from the ashes of an unidentified apocalypse. This unique adaptation promises gender-blind casting with ...

The Drowsy Chaperone
The Drowsy Chaperone
9/27 - 10/7/2018


Join the "man in the chair," a huge fan of Broadway, as he shares his favorite (fictional) musical, "The Drowsy Chaperone." The show comes to ...

ALL SHOOK UP
8/16 - 8/26/2018


Inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley. It's 1955, and into a square little town in a square little state rides a guitar-playing ...

CABARET (1998 VERSION)
4/19 - 4/29/2018


In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920's draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget ...

ILLYRIA
3/17 - 4/16/2016


It is 1958, and New York City is in the midst of a major building boom; a four-lane highway is planned for the heart of ...

South Pacific
2/12 - 2/22/2015


In the Heights
In the Heights
10/2 - 10/13/2014


IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes; ...

Monty Python's Spamalot
8/15 - 8/25/2013


Follow the legendary King Arthur as he and his knights of the round table venture out on a quest to find the Holy Grail....

Videos


Moulin Rouge! in Omaha Moulin Rouge!
Orpheum Theater Omaha (5/28 - 6/9)
The Prom in Omaha The Prom
McDonald Theatre--Nebraska Wesleyan University (4/18 - 4/28)
Pretty Woman (Non-Equity) in Omaha Pretty Woman (Non-Equity)
Orpheum Theater Omaha (4/16 - 4/21)
To Kill a Mockingbird in Omaha To Kill a Mockingbird
Lied Center for Performing Arts (6/11 - 6/12)
The Birds by Conor McPherson in Omaha The Birds by Conor McPherson
Johnny Carson Theater at the Lied Center for Performing Arts (4/25 - 4/28)
Melodrama: All Roads Lead To Florence at FLORENCE COMMUNITY THEATER in Omaha Melodrama: All Roads Lead To Florence at FLORENCE COMMUNITY THEATER
Florence City Hall (5/9 - 5/18)
Moulin Rouge! in Omaha Moulin Rouge!
Orpheum Theater (5/28 - 6/9)
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